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 2017 are listed below as they are confirmed.
Department of Accounting
Jai Kang
Acct. 101.04 + 101.06 Managerial Accounting
- Nov 8, 5-6:30pm Watch Smartest Guys in the Room and write a report
Acct. 513 International Accounting
- Nov 8, 5-6:30pm Watch Smartest Guys in the Room and write a report
Tina Caratan
Acct. 818 Accounting Ethics
- Nov 8 Discuss how leadership within an organization impacts accounting ethics.
Department of Decision Sciences
Hasheminia
BUS776 Data Analysis for Managers
- A discussion on to avoid p-hacking in regression models
Eng
DS 212 Business Statistics
- Ethical issues in using/interpreting data, examples from "How to Lie with Statistics"
DS312 Data Analysis with Computer Applications
- Ethical issues in using/interpreting data, examples from "How to Lie with Statistics"
Ozsen
DS412 Operations Management
- An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management
Bollapragada
DS412 Operations Management
- An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management
Saltzman
DS212 Business Statistics
- A discussion of ethical Issues in hypothesis testing, p-hacking demo
Soorapanth
DS412 Operations Management
- An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management
Cholette
DS856 Seminar in Project Management
- A Guest Speaker from Recology will present 3 recent sustainability-related projects
BUS886 Statistics and Operations Analysis
- An assignment and subsequent discussion on the "Misuse of Statistics" focusing on the ethical ramifications of purposefully mis-interpreting data
Roeder
DS412 Operations Management
- A discussion on ethics and Decision Sciences
Uday
DS412 Operations Management
- Presenting ethical issues in using/interpreting data, including examples from "How to Lie with Statistics"
DS604 Business Forecasting
- A discussion on using data appropriately, including avoiding conflating correlation with causality
Zhao
DS412 Operations Management
- A presentation of ethical issues in Quality Management, including discussion of a quality management case
Sepah-Mansour
DS412 Operations Management
- An examination of ethical issues in Quality Management
Department of Economics
Sepideh Modrek
Econ 450 Health Economics & Health Policy
- Nov. 8th/4:10-6:50pm/GYM 113 Externalities: Vaccine Market Stucture and Financing
Michael Bar
ECON 605 History of Economic Thought
- BUS 107/Nov. 7th, Tu 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM Government policies in cases of market failure, e.g. externalities (Ronald H. Coase)
Kirill Chernomaz
Econ 312 Introduction to Econometrics
- HSS 147 Exploring evidence of wage earnings discrepancies between genders and ethnicities.
Anoshua Chaudhuri
Econ 540 Economics of Gender
- HSS 285 Gender gap in schooling attainment
Lisa Takeyama
Econ 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
- HSS 154 Price Gouging after Natural Disasters
Department of Finance
Daniela Balkanska
BUS 785 Financial Management
- Viewing the Frontline documentary "To Catch a Trader" and an exercise on insider trading.
FIN 350 Business Finance
- Viewing the Frontline documentary "To Catch a Trader" and an exercise on insider trading.
Tee Lim
FIN 357 Financial Statement and Data Analysis
- Volkswagen emissions scandal.
FIN 350 Business Finance
- Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Laura Shroder
HTM 300 Business Communications in Hospitality
- Nov 9 (8:10, 9:35, 2:10) "Possible ethical dilemmas in hospitality
Bo Ferns
HTM 590 Integrated Seminar in Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Nov 7 (11:00) (12:35) Ethics in stateholder management-case study on working with food critics
HTM 351 Asian Culture, Cuisine, and Hospitality
- Sept 22-29 Food ethics-case study shark fin soup
Department of Information Systems
Sameer Verma
ISYS 565 Managing Enterprise Networks
- 10/31/17 Discuss ethics in information systems and how these intersect with confidentiality and privacy.
- 11/2/17 Discuss ethics in information systems and how these intersect with confidentiality and privacy.
ISYS 575 IT Security Management
- 11/15/17 Role of ethics in providing information security, with respect to regulation, compliance, and conformance.
Brenda Mak
ISYS/HTM 339
- Dec 5 ethics in hospitalilty
Department of International Business
Sergey Lebedev
IBUS 690 Global Strategic Management
- Discussion of different approaches on how to respond to ethical challenges and managing ethics internationally
Yikuan Lee
IBUS 590-01 + 590-02 Ethics and International Business
- Nov. 6 (9:10) Two case study - 1. Walmart & Its Critics; 2. iPad & Foxconn Sweatshop
Joel Nicholson
IBUS 330 Int'l Business & Multicultural Relations
- Sept 28 - 24 Chapter on Ethics and CSR in International Business
Lihua Wang
IBUS/MGMT 659 Introduction to International Negotiation
- 12/1/2017(9:35-12:20) Social Dilemma Exercise: SHARC
IBUS59 Doing Business in Greater China
- 11/17/2017 (9:35-11am) Ethics in China: The case of Sanlu
Department of Management
Trivedi
BUS 682 Seminar in Business and Society
- Nov 6 (9:10, 1:10); Nov. 7 (9:35) We will be talking about the ethics of consumer protection and sustainability
Ian Dunham
BUS 682 Seminar in Business and Society
- Nov 9 (12:35; 3:35) The Anthropocene Epoch: Profit and environmental sustainability--are they mutually exclusive?
Eric Lamm
MGMT 656 Seminar in Managing Teams
- Nov 6 (1:10; 4:10); Nov. 7 (12:35) Teaming ethically while communicating virutually.
Oscar Stewart
BUS 682 Seminar in Business and Society
- Nov 6 (1:10-3:55); Nov. 7 (3:35-6:20) Business responsibilities to communities & Consumer ethics
Denise Kleinrichert
BUS 440 Ethics at Work
- Nov. 9 (3:35) Managing International Ethics - Bribery, FCPA & Whistleblowing + Case Study on Levi's
BUS 682 Seminar in Business & Society
- Nov. 8 (1:10; 4:10) Social Responsibility & Global Business + Case Study on Coca-Cola
Antoaneta Petkova
BUS 690 Seminar in Business Policy
- Nov. 6 (1:10); Nov. 13 (1:10) Corporate governance and business ethics; Holand America Lines sustainable practices
BUS 890 Culminating Experience
- Nov. 6 (6:30); Nov. 13 (6:30) Guest-speaker - on social and environmental practices of his business; Stakeholders and legitimacy issues in the emerging cannabis industry
Mitchell Lee Marks
MGMT 670 Seminar in Org'l Design/Change
- Ethical issues in collecting, analyzing and feeding back employee opinion data.
Michael Albert
MGMT 405 MGMT & OB
- Ethics and Human Resources
Ryana Barbosa
BUS 682 Seminar in Business and Society
- Nov 9 (7-9:45pm) Ethical considerations in the tech field: privacy, net neutrality, censoring, foreign interfernce in US election on social media platforms
Linda Saytes
BUS 690 Seminar in Strategic Management
- Ethical issues in the work place regarding gender and age discrimination
Manely Sharifian
BUS 682 Seminar in Business and Society
- Nov 3 Discussion about consumers and ethics
Buddy Ungson
IBUS 676 Social Entrepreneurship
- Nov 7 (3:35) I will be giving a midterm that will cover previous classes on microfinancing
Department of Marketing
Matt Fisher
MKTG 675 Brand Management
- Race, Gender, and Ethics in Branding
MKTG 637 Sales Management Sustaining ethics
- The importance of culture in the sales environment
MKTG 680 International Marketing
- Ethics: local customs vs. imposing home country standards
BUS 783 Managerial Economics
- Ethical implications of power differentials- caveat emptor
BUS 690 Startegic Management
- Costs and Benefits of Stakeholder Driven Organizations
Bruce Robertson
MKTG 431 Principles of Marketing
- Lecture on marketing ethics and discussion on two ethical dilemmas faced by Coca-Cola and Target.
Sanjit Sengupta
MKTG 885 Marketing of High-Technology Products and Innovations
- Lecture on Strategic Considerations for the Triple Bottom Line in High-Tech Companies; Discussion of 2 articles: (1) Is Silicon Valley Funding the Wrong Stuff? WSJ, 7/06/14
- (2) How Technology Will Solve the Planet's Hardest Problems, Newsweek 07//21/16