To encourage Williams College
of Business faculty to increase their classes’
exposure to ethical issues, The Cintas Institute for
Business Ethics at Xavier awards ethics grants to deserving
faculty members. A listing of the 2003-2004, and 2002-2003
grant recipients is below.
2003-2004 Grant Recipients
| Recipient |
Brief Description |
Courses Impacted |
| Dr. Julie Cagle |
“A combination of case study and class discussion of business ethics is the proposed addition to FINC 401 and FINC 901. Students will be grouped into teams to research and present a case study on business ethics from a set of instructor-provided recent scandals, such as WorldCom and Enron….[S]tudents will be asked to respond to ten business dilemmas in two ways; first as they believe a typical businessperson would respond and second as what they believed to be the ethical response….The ethical component of the course will close with a class discussion of pre-versus post-survey results, in which students reflect on the gap between the ethical response to a given situation and the typical businessperson’s response and how that might have changed with exposure to ethics case studies.” |
FINC401: Financial Management
and
FINC901: Managerial Finance |
| Dr. Elaine Crable |
“Technology has made it easier and cheaper for organizations to gather and maintain a considerable amount of data about employee, customers, suppliers and the like. The ease with which data can be accessed exposes each constituent group to a greater likelihood that data about them can be used in ways in which the origianla data collection had not been intended…Managers need to be aware of the ethical as well as the legal issues associated with both the creation and use of data…Students need to be aware of ethical guidelines so that they perform this activity with care and concern. The proposed data warehousing and mining class redesign would include lectures on these topics, a required journal article and abstract plus specific readings on cases about ethical issues and how they relate to data usage.” |
INFO/MKTG 329: Data Mining |
| Dr. Sherrie Human |
“This proposed ethics learning innovation would focus on business and personal issues surrounding entrepreneurs’ posturing or embellishment practices, commonly termed bootstrapping…Further, probing questions I’ve been introduced to through earlier ethics workshops such as ‘who is harmed’ by such bootstrapping activities need to be addressed in class as well.” |
ENTR311: Entrepreneurship |
| Dr. Hema Krishnan |
“I propose to integrate ethics in BUAD904 (global strategic thinking), the capstone course in the MBA curriculum. The course is divided into three major sections, global strategic analysis, global strategy formulation, and global strategy implementation. These sections converge on the following theme: What should organizations do to develop a sustainable competitive advantage? Organizations confront major ethical dilemmas as they approach this objective My purpose in the BUAD904 course is to encourage students to critically examine ethical issues in the context of case studies and arrive at solutions that do not jeopardize the interests of the major stakeholder groups of the organization. The major framework I will be adopting is outsourcing, a key strategy that organizations have embraced to cut costs in their value chain.” |
BUAD904:
Global Strategic Thinking |
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Click here for 2002-2003 grant recipients.
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