… about ethics pledges and MBA programs and, in altering its headline, made it far more interesting.
The original headline:
A PROMISE TO BE ETHICAL IN AN ERA OF IMMORALITY
The ProJo headline:
IN AN ERA OF IMMORTALITY, MBAS PRESS FOR CODE OF CONDUCT
ProJo’s focus on eternal life puts the question of how graduates of MBA programs conduct their business in sharp relief. If you live forever, do you have a special obligation to be ethical? Or, knowing that whatever you do, you will continue to exist, do you not really care whether you are good or bad? Or again, are we to understand immortality here as eternal life in the Lord after physical death? If so, should MBAs be ethical in order to protect their eternal souls? In an era of secularism, are religious warrants sufficient to restrain unethical behavior?