Comments on: Newly minted Harvard MBAs, already violating ethics to make a buck http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/newly-minted-harvard-mbas-already-violating-ethics-to-make-a-buck-90 Exploring business and its impact on life with Stever Robbins Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:39:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Steve http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/newly-minted-harvard-mbas-already-violating-ethics-to-make-a-buck-90#comment-463 Steve Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:05 +0000 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/newly-minted-harvard-mbas-already-violating-ethics-to-make-a-buck-90/#comment-463 Just read this today after reading a column on symbolic laws last Saturday - http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_6100731 - and watching the local news report last night on a ticket reseller about to open since Minnesota's scalping laws are soon to expire. Don't know exactly what HBS is doing but can guess from what I have seen before. My guess: the same number of tickets are given to each student, this leaves some with too few and other with too many, HBS provides no mechanism for reallocation, the tickets are valuable, students will figure this out, and HBS figured out the preceding and decided to suppress the logical action that students would take. okay, so paragraph two: community standards - or reflections of rule makers beliefs? everyone does it - or this rule seeks to prevent consensual transactions benefiting both sides? strive to instill - agree but poor rule (and law) making undermines Note: have read and enjoyed quite a few of these blogs. Even here there is a nice progression from specifics to generality to higher generality by paragraph. Just read this today after reading a column on symbolic laws last Saturday - http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_6100731 - and watching the local news report last night on a ticket reseller about to open since Minnesota’s scalping laws are soon to expire.

Don’t know exactly what HBS is doing but can guess from what I have seen before. My guess: the same number of tickets are given to each student, this leaves some with too few and other with too many, HBS provides no mechanism for reallocation, the tickets are valuable, students will figure this out, and HBS figured out the preceding and decided to suppress the logical action that students would take.

okay, so paragraph two:
community standards - or reflections of rule makers beliefs?
everyone does it - or this rule seeks to prevent consensual transactions benefiting both sides?
strive to instill - agree but poor rule (and law) making undermines

Note: have read and enjoyed quite a few of these blogs. Even here there is a nice progression from specifics to generality to higher generality by paragraph.

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