Business Ethics - MF361 - Syllabus
Business Ethics - MF361
David Vogel
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Queens College
0.5 credit
This course provides participants with the opportunity to analyse and discuss a wide range of ethical issues that confront individual managers and corporations in the United States and other countries. Instruction is based on the case method. Participants are required to offer personal appraisals of the issues discussed in class. Topics raised include gender in the workplace, marketing and morality, ethics of whistle-blowing, honesty and norms of competition, global business ethics, global business responsibilities, ethics in the financial marketplace, ethics of corporate responsibility, and managing an ethical corporation.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plato, “The Ring of Gyges,” The Republic.
David Vogel, “Business Ethics: New Perspectives on Old Problems,” California Management Review, Joseph Badaracco, Jr. and Allen Webb, “Business Ethics: A View from the Trenches,” California Management Review, James Krohe, Jr., “Ethics are Nice, but Business is Business,” Across the Board,
Case:
Conflict on a Trading Floor, Harvard Business School Case, S-394-194.
II. PERSONAL VALUES AND BUSINESS DECISIONS
Cases:
Ann Hopkins (A), Harvard Business Case, 9-391-155.
Kathryn McNeil (A), Harvard Business Case, 9-394-111.
The Analyst’s Dilemma (A), Harvard Business School Case, 9-394-056.
I. COMPETING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: BRIBERY
Cases:
Changmai Corp., INSEAD Euro-Asia Centre. Pg. 111.
“Bentley Italia.” Pg. 119.
John Seeger, The Project at Moza Island (A), Ethics in Business. Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.
Supplementary Readings:
“Stop the Rot,” “A Global War Against Bribery,” Economist, Mary Midgley, “Trying Out One’s Sword,” Heart and Mind,
II. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
Cases:
Norman Howie & Stefanie Lenway, “H.B. Fuller in Honduras”. Soccer balls made for children by children? Child
David Vogel
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Queens College
0.5 credit
This course provides participants with the opportunity to analyse and discuss a wide range of ethical issues that confront individual managers and corporations in the United States and other countries. Instruction is based on the case method. Participants are required to offer personal appraisals of the issues discussed in class. Topics raised include gender in the workplace, marketing and morality, ethics of whistle-blowing, honesty and norms of competition, global business ethics, global business responsibilities, ethics in the financial marketplace, ethics of corporate responsibility, and managing an ethical corporation.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plato, “The Ring of Gyges,” The Republic.
David Vogel, “Business Ethics: New Perspectives on Old Problems,” California Management Review, Joseph Badaracco, Jr. and Allen Webb, “Business Ethics: A View from the Trenches,” California Management Review, James Krohe, Jr., “Ethics are Nice, but Business is Business,” Across the Board,
Case:
Conflict on a Trading Floor, Harvard Business School Case, S-394-194.
II. PERSONAL VALUES AND BUSINESS DECISIONS
Cases:
Ann Hopkins (A), Harvard Business Case, 9-391-155.
Kathryn McNeil (A), Harvard Business Case, 9-394-111.
The Analyst’s Dilemma (A), Harvard Business School Case, 9-394-056.
I. COMPETING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: BRIBERY
Cases:
Changmai Corp., INSEAD Euro-Asia Centre. Pg. 111.
“Bentley Italia.” Pg. 119.
John Seeger, The Project at Moza Island (A), Ethics in Business. Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.
Supplementary Readings:
“Stop the Rot,” “A Global War Against Bribery,” Economist, Mary Midgley, “Trying Out One’s Sword,” Heart and Mind,
II. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
Cases:
Norman Howie & Stefanie Lenway, “H.B. Fuller in Honduras”. Soccer balls made for children by children? Child