A case study of Harvard Business School ethics

from David Ruccio

Or, in this case, only at Harvard. . . 

Marc Edelman [ht: ja]—an associate professor at Harvard Business School, who is a graduate of Harvard College, and has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a law degree from Harvard Law School—threatened legal action against the owner of a local Chinese restaurant after deciding he was overcharged by $4 (on a total takeout order of $53.55).

Apparently, after the story was published, Harvard Business School students, who are worried about what they consider to be negative stereotypes about their school, set up a fundraising page for the Greater Boston Food Bank, asking people to each contribute $4 to the food bank. As of this morning, the campaign had raised almost $5,000.

I’ll bet Harvard Business School has an ethics class for this.