You can see it here:
http://dealbreaker.com/2009/05/theyve-got-it-laminated-on-lit.php
So far, so good.
But then the MAJORITY of students at Harvard and MIT refused to sign it, providing all sorts of lame excuses and intellectual sophistry. They are intellectually smart people, after all.
The oath itself is plain vanella... which makes one wonder why anyone entrusted with any sort of management responsibility would refuse to sign it.
If you yourself wonder why our society is in the shape it is in, and wonder what it will take to turn things around, please consider why MBA students would absolutely refuse to sign, let alone implement in their daily lives, such a simple ethical document.
Should you count your fingers after shaking hands with one of them?
And what kind of senior management would even want these kind of ethically blind people around, no matter how intellectually gifted they might be?
I realize this is a small point in the overall scheme of things. But sometimes, small points can reveal a larger truth. From my point of view, this episode nicely illustrates the "ethical rot" that is underpinning our present and future business leadership.
If your organization chooses to hire one of these Harvard/MIT "ethically warped" geniuses, just remember... you've been warned.
Remember Harvard MBA Jeffrey Skilling of Enron fame?
If you need a refresher, here it is:
In 2006 he was convicted of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse, and is currently serving a 24-year, 4-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, near Littleton, Colorado.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
Was he really very, very smart... or really, really dumb? IQ, after all, isn't everything in my book.
Good luck, folks!
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