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BUS 1122.30

Business Ethics & Social Issues

Spring Semester  March 10 - May 8,  2010

Wednesdays, 1:00 - 3:40 PM

Cambridge Campus - Room F 223

 

An eight-week accelerated class

 

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Grade Book

Updated May 6 - Final Grades

 

Important Dates this Semester

Course Syllabus Instructor Contact Info.

 

Class Date

Assignments, Handouts, Downloads...

 

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Week 8: May 5

 

 

Week 7: Apr 28

Restore Stephen Baldwin.  Look here.  (Good grief!)

Assignment 16:  Final Exam

Article Link:  Stings like a bee

Assignment 17:  More Lessons Learned

Article Links for Asgn 17

Assignment 18:  Exit Survey

 

Week 6: Apr 21

Assignment 14:  Ethical Case Questions

Article for Asgn. 14: Let Us Now Pray... for Accu-Fab

Assignment 15:  Real-life Ethical Dilemmas

Next Week's Debates by:

  • Team 8: Zentner, Rivera

  • Team 9: Brambrink, Jakobs

  • Team 10: Coon, Still

 

Week 5: Apr 14

Assignment 12:  Ethical Case Questions

Assignment 13:  Ethical Policy Rewrite

Next Week's Debates by:

  • Team 5: Alexander, Kallas

  • Team 6: Smith, Westling

  • Team 7: Eklund, LaPlante

In-class:  Evaluating Ethical Policies

 

 

Week 4: Apr 7

Five of the Worst Corporate Boards

Ten Things you can do to avoid being the next Enron

Humor:  Daily Show Lampoons Harvard's MBA Ethics Oath

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Assignment 10:  Ethical Case Questions

Assignment 11:  Responding to a Social Issue

Article:  Ronald McDonald contributes to obesity epidemic

Next Week's Debates by:

  • Team 3:  Hunstad, Omwenga

 

Week 3: Mar 31

2010 World's Most Ethical Companies Look Here   (A great resource for researching a Code of Ethics)

The Internet's Most Successful Scams  Look Here

Humor for the Week:  Ethics Seminar at "The Office"   Look Here

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Class Information:

Assignment 07:  Ethical Case Questions

Assignment 08:  Lessons Learned

Assignment 09:  Developing Ethical Policies

Article:  Raw Meat

Also Next Week:

  • (Asgn 06) Analysis of Employee Code of Ethics is due.

Debates by:

  • Team 1:  Jennisch, Newman

 

Week 2: Mar 24

Assignment 04:  Identifying ethical and social issues

Low Quality Video Link: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room  (The previous link to freedocumentaries.org led to a video that was dubbed in something other than English.  This version on YouTube is poorer quality and in 10 parts.)

High Quality Video LinkEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room  (This is a great high-quality version but it might require you to update your computer with a Divx player.)

Assignment 05:  Ethical Case Questions

Assignment 06:  Identifying & Analyzing an Employee Code of Ethics

Handout:  Ethical Code for Coca Cola

 

Week of Mar 17

No ARCC Classes this week - Spring Break!

Please note that your instructor will be on leave from classes and unavailable for comment, Friday, March 12 through Monday, March 22.

 

Week 1: Mar 10

For Fun

In-Class Items for Discussion

Important: Guidelines for The Great Debate and Executive Summary

Debate Partners

  • Team 1:  Jennisch, Newman (Exec Summaries due Mar 31; Debate is April 7)

  • Team 2: Vohderharr, Hanck  (Exec Summaries due Mar 31; Debate is April 7)

  • Team 3: Hunstad, Omwenga  (Exec Summaries due Apr 7; Debate is April 14)

  • Team 4: Petry, Zentner  (Exec Summaries due Apr 7; Debate is April 14)

  • Team 5: Alexander, Kallas  (Exec Summaries due Apr 14; Debate is April 21)

  • Team 6: Smith, Westling  (Exec Summaries due Apr 14; Debate is April 21)

  • Team 7: Eklund, LaPlante  (Exec Summaries due Apr 14; Debate is April 21)

  • Team 8: Comes, Rivera  (Exec Summaries due Apr 21; Debate is April 28)

  • Team 9: Brambrink, Jakobs  (Exec Summaries due Apr 21; Debate is April 28)

  • Team 10: Coon, Still  (Exec Summaries due Apr 21; Debate is April 28)

  • Team 11: Martin, Bernardi  (Exec Summaries due Apr 28; Debate is May 5)

  • Team 12: Moriarty, Rud  (Exec Summaries due Apr 28; Debate is May 5)

  • Team 13: Shepherd, Willett  (Exec Summaries due Apr 28; Debate is May 5)

Assignment 01:  Ethical/Social Issues and Arguments

Assignment 01 resources:

Assignment 02:  Choosing your Ethical or Social Issue (for the Great Debate)

Assignment 03:  Ethical Case Questions

   

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Important Dates - Spring Semester 2010

For the Second Accelerated 8-Week Schedule

March 10

  Class starts

March 14 - 20

  No classes, spring break

April 20

  The last day to withdraw from this course

May 5

  Final day for this course

 

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