A Hippocratic Oath for Business Students?
About the Webinar
We ask new lawyers to swear to protect the laws of our land. We ask incoming doctors to pledge to first do no harm. But what do we ask of our business students? MBAs graduate and immediately embark upon careers in finance, marketing, consulting, and more, without ever sharing a rite of passage like graduates of other professional schools. On this call, Max and Harley discuss the need for an oath as an important first step in encouraging business leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard of personal conduct.
Max Anderson is a co-founder of the MBA Oath and author of The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders. He graduated from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009 and worked with a group of classmates to write and promote the MBA Oath as a Hippocratic Oath for Business. He has worked in management consulting, consumer internet, non-profits and television production. He currently is a general manager at an asset management firm and is working with a group of leaders across more than a dozen schools to promote the MBA Oath among business students.
Harley Finkelstein is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of one of Canada’s leading promotional apparel companies, Finkinc. Additionally, Harley serves as a mentor to the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI), sits on the financing committee for the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), and is an advisor to both the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and to the Ottawa Community Loan Fund (OCLF). He is also the co-founder of the school’s Law/MBA Student Society, and the ‘Canadian MBA Oath‘.