MGMT 6415 — Managing with Integrity in Organizations and Markets
2 semester hoursGraduateLecture
Aims to equip students to build a personal framework for managing ethics throughout their business lives. Introduces fundamental philosophical concepts to critically examine and verbalize the kind of life and career students wish to lead. Explores practical strategies informed by behavioral science that students can harness to help realize their vision of the good life. Examines arguments for and against the morality of a variety of market institutions and practices, considering current controversies in business. Examines how to critically assess role responsibilities in business within dynamic, contested, imperfect, and sometimes corrupt institutions. Requires a term paper in which students identify a controversial question of role responsibility in business relevant to their careers and develop and defend their position against significant objections.