Business school Quote by John Harvey-Jones Download Open image “It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.” — John Harvey-Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business school Ethics Extras Harvard Hospitality Leadership Optional School
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards. — Marvin Bower Copy Share Image
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it. — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school,… — Kevin Plank Copy Share Image
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't… — Thomas G. Stemberg Copy Share Image
Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image