It's time for the profession -- and business -- of reproductive medicine to accept their firm, inescapable ethical obligation to give the interests and well-being of the children they help to create the same consideration they give to the desires of the adults they serve.
Yet, as the professors point out, the desire to make management a profession like law and medicine was central to Harvard Business School in the first decades after it was founded 100 years ago.
After all, the law requires almost all companies to be audited, and the accounting profession has a monopoly on the business.
As in other professions, auditors want to advance in their chosen profession which often means keeping the client happy and growing their business.
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Whether this is a proper focus for business education is being openly challenged by thought leaders such as Harvard's Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation include The Innovator's Dilemma, and Rakesh Khurana, also of Harvard, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
One of the two main criticisms of the oath and of the whole idea of turning management into a profession, particularly in business-school faculties, is that it is either unnecessary or actively harmful.
Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski says the 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists are working to uphold the profession's highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies and business models.
Like many in his profession, Mr Merck regards officials both in Brussels and Paris as health fanatics bent on destroying the tobacco business.
Erica Challis, a musician by profession and one of the producers of a major fan website, has turned her passion for Tolkien into a potential business.
Those high margins are protected, of course, by a ring of defensive regulations, Bar Association rules and deeply ingrained habits that make it hard for an investor-controlled business to crack the legal profession.
The student oath is part of a larger effort to turn management from a trade into a profession a crusade that Messrs Khurana and Nohria proposed in a much-discussed article last October in the Harvard Business Review.
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