Views on the culpability of schools in the economic meltdown range from one extreme to another, as do the prescriptions for how to win back the trust of business and students.
MBAs pledge to do good
Graduating students from Harvard Business School are lining up in their droves to sign an oath which requires them to “create value responsibly and ethically”.
Here is a great idea for capturing user-generated content from the front lines of philanthropy at home and abroad; two video cameras for the price of one:
Joel Kurtzman writes: “I hope you find the attached annual update of the Opacity Index useful in your endeavors.”
By deploying corporate philanthropy dollars to tackle pressing social issues directly though customized programs at UCLA, Wharton, INSEAD and others, Johnson & Johnson’s initiatives go well beyond your father’s executive education.
The internationally respected Network for Sustainable Financial Markets has just released a blueprint for fundamental changes to the Credit Derivatives market. The Network suggests that proposed changes will bring fairness and sustainability to what has been a dangerously opaque and, as a result, mispriced sector of the financial system.
Value is the only commonality in an increasingly complex, challenging and interdependent world.
Laurance Allen: Editor + Publisher