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Harvard: A Hippocratic Oath for Managers?
Barbara Bierach - 07-01-2009
At an unofficial ceremony on June 3rd, the day before they received their MBAs, 400 students graduating from Harvard Business School swore an oath. Half of this year’s graduating class promised they would “serve the greater good”, “act with the utmost integrity” and guard against “decisions and behaviour that advance my own narrow ambitions, but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”
Study: Do MBAs make better CEOs? Not necessarily.
Barbara Bierach - 09-29-2010
So far, when researchers asked the question whether MBAs make better CEOs the answer has been yes, they deliver better shareholder value in the long term. New research, though, threatens this conclusion, reports BusinessWeek.
Closing the Gender Gap
Barbara Bierach - 01-29-2010
Women today comprise about 37 per cent of the student body at full-time MBA programmes in the US, compared with 33 per cent five years ago and 30 per cent 10 years ago, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). And while most schools are still far from having an even split, many are closing the gender gap.