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Teaching Business Ethics (Ethikos) Teaching Business Ethics (Ethikos) September/October 2003 - By Bruce Buchanan. Teaching Business Ethics: One School's NotesOver the last several years, as corporate scandals have proliferated, there has been an increasing call on Op/Ed pages for MBA programs to include business ethics in their curriculum. The fact that some of the more egregious executive malefactors have MBAs from the nation’s top universities has, no doubt, lent some urgency to this idea. And recently a number of prominent schools have announced, with some fanfare, the formation of business ethics courses and other similar initiatives. Still, within the academic and business community, doubts remain as to whether or not business ethics is a legitimate subject for MBA programs—something that can, in fact, be taught. And there is some concern that once the scandals blow over these initiatives themselves might silently wink out.An ethics requirementAt NYU’s Stern School of Business, we have had an ethics requirement in the MBA curriculum for over thirty years. In the last decade all MBA students have had to take a specific required business ethics course, entitled "Professional Responsibility: Markets, Ethics, and Law." This course is a collaboration among a dozen or so professors at the school, most of whom have been on the project since 1993. And it has produced a custom published textbook, which is now in its 10th annual edition. Each year, about 1,100 students take this required course in one of about 30 class sections. They receive grades in this course, and they can—in theory—fail it. The course is well received by the students and supported by the school administration, which is to say it seems to be working.The purpose of this short note is to share some of what we as a faculty have learned putting this course together, in hopes that some of these ideas and practices might be useful to other schools or to corporations. Though I am the course coordinator, I stress that the development and implementation of the course has been a team effort. Full Article: http://www.singerpubs.com/ethikos/html/teachingethics.html |
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