The Lam Family College of Business embraces business ethics in a variety of ways. Department faculty and classroom activities in support of Business Ethics Week 2018 are listed below as they are confirmed.
Community Engagement
Antoaneta Petkova
MGMT 630 Managing the Entrepreneurial Organization
Whole Foods case - building a community of purpose field study and class discussions of the ethics, sustainability, and community engagement practices of Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
Ethics
Kristine Caratan
ACCT 818 Accounting Ethics
This entire course is devoted to the topic of accounting ethics.During Ethics week the lecture topic was Ethical Leadership in CPA firms.
Manely Sharifian
BUS 682 Seminar in Business & Society
We are going to talk about ethics in marketing in the class.
Susan Cholette
BUS 886 Decision Sciences
Stats&Ops: Discussion on select topics from "Calling BS in the age of information" focusing on the ethical ramifications of mis-interpreting data.
Theresa Roeder
DS 408 Computer Simulation
Discussed the difference between ethics and morality, and how the "soft" notion of ethics still does play an important role in a field that's supposedly entirely numbers-based. How to incorporate sustainability and social responsibility into the analysis.
Julia Miyaoka
DS 412 Decision Sciences
An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Leyla Ozsen
DS 412 Decision Sciences
An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Ramesh Bollapragada
DS 412 Decision Sciences
An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Sada Soorapanth
DS 412 Decision Sciences
An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Stewart Liu
DS 412 Decision Sciences
An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Theresa Roeder
DS 411 Decision Sciences
Discussion on ethics and Decision Sciences.
Yabing Zhao
DS 412 Decision Sciences
Ethical issues in Quality Management, including discussion of a quality management case.
Antoaneta Petkova
MGMT 630 Managing the entrepreneurial organization
Keeping Google Googley - case discussion of the relationship between organizational culture and business ethics.
Priyanka Joshi
MGMT 648 Ethical Leadership
We will start out by discussion course readings on business ethics. We will also be watching and discussing the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Kathy O'Donnell
MKTG 434 Social, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Advertising
In addition to covering the related chapter in the text book, we discussed campaigns that successfully use advertising to create social justice including Nike Middle East, Heineken, TV2 Denmark, Nike Colin Kaepernik, Alo House Drug Rehab Center, and Don't Text and Drive campaigns. We also discussed PG&E's corrective advertising campaign, which was required by the courts, as part of their punishment for the San Bruno pipeline explosion.
Fisher
MKTG 649 Ethics and Big Data
Discussion regarding the use of big data tools and ethical problems that arise when using flawed algorithms.Will show the TED talk: Cathy O'Neil: The era of blind faith in big data must end.
Fisher
MKTG 675 Ethics in branding
Discussion of representation in branding and the power of marketers to exploit and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
Yabing Zhao
DS 412 Operations Management
Discussion of ethical issues in Quality Management.
Social Justice
Rex Cheung
BUS 776 and DS212 Decision Sciences
Discussion of Correlation vs. Causation and the problems created by mis-interpretation.
Fisher
BUS 783 Human testing in the developing world
Discussion centered on human medical trials and accessibility to drugs in the developing world.
Venoo Kakar
Econ 102, Econ 731 Introduction to Macroeconomic Analysis, Econometric Theory
Econ 102: Discussed a few experimental economics research papers studies on race-based discrimination in the labor market.
Econ 731: Using real world data and economic modelling techniques we discussed gender pay gap in the labor market."
Sepideh Modrek
Econ 450 Equity and the ACA
We will be looking at data since the enactment of ACA and how different groups were affected.
Social Responsibility
Professor Stewart
BUS 682 Seminar in Business & Society
Our week is centered on globalization and its effects on corporations' violation or upholding of human rights of the populations they exploit, particularly in developing countries.
Nara Jeong
Corporate governance and CSR: Lehman Brothers case study; "Inside Job (2010)"
Case analysis on the Lehman Brothers case related with 2009 financial crisis. The class discussed about board and top executives responsibility. Also, I asked students to write a report after watching a video Inside Job (2010), which criticizes the moral hazard of top executives and asks about the role of government.
Sustainability
Ian M. Dunham
BUS 682 Seminar in Business & Society
Ecological footprint: Quantifying individual environmental impact. During this week students will learn about various environmental issues and consider how their impact of their actions and lifestyle choices.
Geoff Desa
BUS 690 Strategic Management
Calculate your ecological footprint and the carbon footprint for your commute , identify carbon offsets and debate the social impact merits of local vs. global community initiatives.
Susan Cholette
DS 855 Decision Sciences
Supply Chain Management: How to perform a product carbon footprint analysis
Ryana S. Barbosa
BUS 682 Seminar in Business & Society
"Sustainable Development and Global Business. Excerpts from the first An Inconvenient Truth followed by a class discussion regarding the science, policies, and business decisions that have impacted climate change and potential solutions (both private and public) we can employ to address these urgent challenges, with an eye on equity and environmental justice. If there's time, we'll listen to https://radiopublic.com/TheDaily/ep/s1!10ca2 podcast on a recap of progressive environmental policies we *almost* passed decades ago and the consequences we're dealing with now as a result of those policy failures. We'll focus in on the current lawsuit the State of New York is filing against Exxon on behalf of its shareholders for knowingly downplaying the effects of climate change on Exxon's business, and the recent Nobel Prize winning economists work on carbon taxes!"