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"Hippocratic Oath" for MBAs

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i didnt listen to the whole thing. it sounds a tad dry/slow for this time off day. bottom line if the basis for this is ethical behavior i applaud it. i frimly believe that a leadership void is present in nearly all aspects of our country. building leaders i believe in. i realize an oath is only as good as the man giving his word and thus for some worthless but for some important. i believe in stressing the importance of being above board and acting in an ethical and proper manner.
 
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They've been teaching ethics courses in MBA programs since the scandals of the 1980s, and it accomplished nothing.

Getting an MBA is a lot like wanting to become a police officer. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the degree/job or the training involved. It's just that the personal psychology of a lot of people who really, really want to become mbas/cops should preclude their ever being allowed to become one.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1484351; said:
They've been teaching ethics courses in MBA programs since the scandals of the 1980s, and it accomplished nothing.

Getting an MBA is a lot like wanting to become a police officer. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the degree/job or the training involved. It's just that the personal psychology of a lot of people who really, really want to become mbas/cops should preclude their ever being allowed to become one.
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So, how would you characterize that "personal psychology?"
 
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MaxBuck;1485383; said:
So, how would you characterize that "personal psychology?"
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It's not the same, but the underlying dynamic is similar.

For cops, quite frankly, you have a lot of people drawn to the job that are just thugs and bullies--doubt me, just put "chicago" "police scandal" into google. They're the ones who grow up really, really wanting to be cops; whereas others who don't gravitate to the field would be much better suited tempermentally to the work and the authority vested in police officers.

In the same vein, you have a lot of guys attracted to mba programs that are fixated solely and exclusively (frequently to narcissistic or sociopathic levels) upon their own financial gain and are at best ignorant and at worst dismissive of any larger sense of obligation to the long term health of their firms, the economy or the nation as a whole. A dynamic that was sickeningly on display with the latest collapse that the self-proclaimed "best and brightest" on Wall Street just brought us. An mba hyppocratic oath will mean as much to these people as did the ethics courses that they've been forced to take for the last 20 years.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1485418; said:
In the same vein, you have a lot of guys attracted to mba programs that are fixated solely and exclusively (frequently to narcissistic or sociopathic levels) upon their own financial gain and are at best ignorant and at worst dismissive of any larger sense of obligation to the long term health of their firms, the economy or the nation as a whole. A dynamic that was sickeningly on display with the latest collapse that the self-proclaimed "best and brightest" on Wall Street just brought us. An mba hyppocratic oath will mean as much to these people as did the ethics courses that they've been forced to take for the last 20 years.
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did someone from wall street kill your puppy when you were a kid or something?
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
It's not the same, but the underlying dynamic is similar.

For cops, quite frankly, you have a lot of people drawn to the job that are just thugs and bullies--doubt me, just put "chicago" "police scandal" into google. They're the ones who grow up really, really wanting to be cops; whereas others who don't gravitate to the field would be much better suited tempermentally to the work and the authority vested in police officers.

In the same vein, you have a lot of guys attracted to mba programs that are fixated solely and exclusively (frequently to narcissistic or sociopathic levels) upon their own financial gain and are at best ignorant and at worst dismissive of any larger sense of obligation to the long term health of their firms, the economy or the nation as a whole. A dynamic that was sickeningly on display with the latest collapse that the self-proclaimed "best and brightest" on Wall Street just brought us. An mba hyppocratic oath will mean as much to these people as did the ethics courses that they've been forced to take for the last 20 years.
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can i draw parallels with doctors? lawyers? pharms? xray techs? teachers? principals? priests? nursing home administrators?

just checking....
 
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MaxBuck;1485383; said:
So, how would you characterize that "personal psychology?"
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ORD_Buckeye;1485418; said:
... you have a lot of guys attracted to mba programs that are fixated solely and exclusively (frequently to narcissistic or sociopathic levels) upon their own financial gain and are at best ignorant and at worst dismissive of any larger sense of obligation to the long term health of their firms, the economy or the nation as a whole. A dynamic that was sickeningly on display with the latest collapse that the self-proclaimed "best and brightest" on Wall Street just brought us. An mba hyppocratic oath will mean as much to these people as did the ethics courses that they've been forced to take for the last 20 years.
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My son-in-law is a recent MBA from a top B-school. Neither he nor most of his classmates resemble your characterization in the least.
 
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