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8/28 (Mon)
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Business Ethics From a Philosophical Perspective (Unit #1)
Course Syllabus.
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8/30 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Rachels & Rachels, “What Is Morality?”
Optional: Lin, “The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars” (local file).
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9/1 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Sen, “Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?”
Optional: Harris Interactive, “Only One-Quarter of Americans Say Banks are Honest and Trustworthy”.
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9/4 (Mon)
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🛠 Labor Day 🛠
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9/6 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Rachels & Rachels, “Subjectivism in Ethics”.
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9/8 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Weinstein, “If It’s Legal, It’s Ethical… Right?”
Optional: Cannon, “Tylenol’s Rebound”.
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9/11 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Donaldson, “Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home”.
Optional: Zoepf, “Shopgirls”.
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9/13 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Carr, “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?”
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9/15 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Crisp, “Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire”.
60 Minutes, “Undercover Marketing”.
Optional: Vranica, “Sony Ericsson Campaign Uses Actors To Push Camera-Phone in Real Life”.
Optional: Poppick, “10 Subliminal Retail Tricks You’re Probably Falling For”.
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9/18 (Mon)
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⚠️ Unit #1 Exam ⚠️
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9/20 (Wed)
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What’s the Point of Business? (Unit #2)
Reading Questions.
Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
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9/22 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”.
Optional: Heracleous & Lan, “The Myth of Shareholder Capitalism”.
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9/25 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Parramore, “How a Libertarian Used Ayn Rand’s Crazy Philosophy to Drive Sears Into the Ground”.
Rachels & Rachels, “The Argument That Ethical Egoism is Unacceptably Arbitrary”.
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9/27 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”.
Optional: This Place, “Tragedy of the Commons | The Problem with Open Access” (local file).
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9/29 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Solomon, A Better Way to Think About Business.
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10/2 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Duska, “The Why’s of Business Revisited”.
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10/4 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Freeman, “Managing for Stakeholders”.
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10/6 (Fri)
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⚠️ Unit #2 Exam ⚠️
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10/9 (Mon)
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🍁 Fall Break 🍁
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10/11 (Wed)
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💃 Class Canceled 🕺
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10/13 (Fri)
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🕺 Class Canceled 💃
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10/16 (Mon)
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Obligations to Partners, Employees, Clients & Consumers (Unit#3)
Reading Questions.
Moriarty, “Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much?”
Optional: Bivens & Kandra, “American Rescue, Infrastructure, and Inflation-Reduction Acts are Big Steps in Right Direction”.
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10/18 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Epstein, “In Defense of the Contract at Will”.
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10/20 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
McCall, “A Defense of Just Cause Dismissal Rules”.
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10/23 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Maitland, “The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops”.
Optional: Blattman & Dercon, “Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong”.
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10/25 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Meyers, “Wrongful Beneficence: Exploitation and Third World Sweatshops”.
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10/27 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Geva, “Moral Problems of Employing Foreign Workers”.
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10/30 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Zwolinski, “The Ethics of Price Gouging”.
Optional: Evans, “Uber’s Snow Storm Surge Pricing Gouged New Yorkers Big Time”.
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11/1 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Snyder, “What’s the Matter with Price Gouging?”
Optional: Nicas, “He has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them”.
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11/3 (Fri)
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⚠️ Unit #3 Exam ⚠️
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11/6 (Mon)
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Corporate Social Responsibility (Unit #4)
Reading Questions.
Carnegie, “Wealth”.
Optional: Farbman, “We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity”.
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11/8 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Frank, “Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment?”
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11/10 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Porter & Kramer, “Creating Shared Value”.
Optional: Porter & Kramer, “Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility”.
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11/13 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Prahalad, “The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid”.
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11/15 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Karnani, “Romanticizing the Poor”.
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11/17 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Rangan, Chase & Karim, “The Truth About CSR”.
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11/20 (Mon)
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💃 Class Canceled 🕺
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11/22, 24
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🦃 Thanksgiving Break 🦃
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11/27 (Mon)
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Reading Questions.
Choudhry, “Why We All Need Banks”.
Likierman, “Why We Need Banks”.
Augar, “Go Back to Basic Banking”.
Benedikter, “European Answers to the Financial Crisis: Social Banking and Social Finance”.
Optional: BankBazaar, “History of Banking” (local file).
Optional: Thomas, Hennessey & Holtz-Eakin, “What Caused the Financial Crisis?”
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11/29 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Rachels, “Coping with Prejudice”.
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12/1 (Fri)
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⚠️ Unit #4 Exam ⚠️
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12/4 (Mon)
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Epilogue: Ethical Leadership
Reading Questions.
Zaleznik, “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?”
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12/6 (Wed)
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Reading Questions.
Bok, “Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility”.
Optional: Zremski, “Suit Accuses Developer of Racial Bias in Siting Homes”.
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12/8 (Fri)
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Reading Questions.
Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave”.
Optional: Plato, Apology.
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12/11 (Mon)
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🕺 Class Canceled 💃
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TBA
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🚨 Final Exam 🚨
Müller & Pandit, “Vodafone in Egypt: National Crises and Their Implications for Multinational Corporations”.
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