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What makes a profession?
» An ethical framework
Aiming High
“The School should…aim,” wrote chair Sumner H. Slichter in his Subcommittee on Objectives’s report in 1944, “much more than in the past, to be a center of research and ideas — the sponsor and the supporter of the most significant research in the world on the subject of administration and the problems of business, and the originator of the most significant appraisals of the new responsibilities of business and the kind of job that business is doing.
“This last means that the School should be a leader both in scientific investigations and in ethical thinking about business.”
The postwar curriculum, as adopted by the faculty in February 1945, included among the “abilities and understandings” that it hoped to instill in MBA students the “understanding of ethical considerations as an integral part of business administration and ability to develop a unified set of ethical concepts for personal guidance in administration.”
Sumner H. Slichter