639 - Ethics for Leaders

The course objectives include increasing awareness of the ethical dimension of business conduct, developing analytical skills for identifying and resolving ethical issues in business, and practicing decision making about ethical issues. Students will study topics like employee privacy, employee fairness, employee loyalty, information acquisition, conflicts of interest, ethical issues in advertising, international business, social responsibility to employees and consumers, and many other topics.

The classroom format will be discussion-based with cases, exercises, reports on current ethical issues in the headlines, and guest speakers.  Assignments include class participation, a group project in which you will debate a controversial issue, and an individual paper on a topic of your choice.