The HBS students wanted to create a voluntary pledge that would deliberately echo the Hippocratic Oath as a step towards presenting management as a profession with its own codeofconduct.
Under the ministerial code, the responsibility for the management and conductof special advisers, including discipline, rests with the minister who made the appointment.
Still, an investigation found that the factory violated Nike's codeofconduct, prompting the company to work with factory management on a "remediation plan to help avoid these issues from occurring again in the future, " she says.