While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
Ethics to me is very important.
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
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