College of Business Administration College of Business Administration
The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
04 August 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Introduction and Court System Meiners Chapters 1-2 (emphasize pp 26-32, 51)
Hesenthaller handout*Business and the Constitution; Commercial Speech
Meiners Chapter 5 (emphasize pp 150-160)Block 05 August 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*Business Torts and Liability Meiners Chapters 7-8 (emphasize all)Block 18 August 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Contracts and Negotiable Instruments Meiners Chapters 10-11 (emphasize all)Block 19 August 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*Contracts and Negotiable Instruments (con't.)
*Debtor/Creditor RelationsMeiners Chapter 12Block 01 September 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Agency Meiners Chapter 13 (emphasize all)*Business Organizations
Meiners Chapter 14 (emphasize all)
Meiners Chapter 20Block 02 September 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*Employment Law Meiners Chapter 15 (emphasize pp 530-533)
Meiners Chapter 16 (emphasize all)*Carryover, Reveiw and Handouts
In-Class ExaminationBlock 16 September 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Opening Case: Ford Explorer and Firestone Tire - Tires Linked to Tragedies
- 21 deaths in tire probe
- Ford Motor Company site
- Firestone Tires site
- Case of ?failure to warn? involving the Ford Bronco
- Sears Halts Firestone Tire Sales
- Ex-workers cite problems at Firestone plant
- Congress Wants Tire Answers
*Social Contract Theory
*The 'Nature' of the Corporate EnterpriseThe Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good, Chapters 1-2- 'The Elements of Moral Philosophy/Social Contract Theory' (Readings Packet: Article 5-c.)
- 'Ben's Big Flop' (September 1998 Inc. magazine cover story)
- Friedman, Milton. `The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' (Readings Packet:Article 5-b.)
- 'Are Corporations Inherently Wicked?' (Readings Packet: Article 5-e.)
- 'The Armchair Economist-New, Improved Football' (Readings Packet: Article 5-f.)
- 'The Armchair Economist-The Power of Incentives' (Readings Packet: Article 5-g.)
BLUEBIRD SMELTER CASE (Readings Packet: Case 3-b.)
Dunn 16 September 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*Corporate Social Performance
*Critiques of Market SystemsThe Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good, Chapter 3
The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism..., Part A- `The Capitalist Threat' (Readings Packet: Article 5-i.)
Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series)
Dunn 29 September 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Ethical Theory The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good, Chapter 9
Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right, Section II- 'The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders' (Readings Packet: Article 5-h.)
- 'Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique' (Readings Packet: Article 5-d.)
- Le Guin, Ursula. `The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'
- Dunn, Craig P. `The Normative Defense for Affirmative Action'JOHNSON CONTROLS CASE (Readings Packet: Case 3-a.)
SURVEY OF ETHICAL THEORETIC APTITUDES (Readings Packet: Exercise 4-a.)
GROUP CASE PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE
CONTRACTS DUE
Dunn 30 September 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*The Practice of Ethics within Organizations The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good, Chapter 7
Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right, Sections III & IV- 'Adam Smith to the ER' (Readings Packet, Article 5-j.)
- 'A Question of Ethics: One CFO Wrestles with His Conscience' (Readings Packet, Article 5-k.)
- Ford Pinto (Readings Packet, Case 3-c.)Gail Mayville (Business Enterprise Trust video)
Lou Krause (Business Enterprise Trust video)DEADLY DECEPTION (INFACT video)
NYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video)
Dunn 13 October 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm
*Application: Case Presentations Blaze/Klein/Sharpe-Underwood/Torres
School Commercialization
Bitner/Evans/Rothe
Professorial Conflict of Interest
Paxton/Pena/Ross/Sander/Starry/Unger
Medical Device Commission Structure
Dhir/Galasso-Vance/Lam/Noyes
Who Owns Your Genes?
Guest Speaker:
John Ballantine, iSTART Ventures.
No stranger to start-ups, John has been involved in starting more than nine ventures and has more than 11 years of senior management experience in the computer and electronic commerce industry. In 1994, John recognized the enormous potential of the Internet as a superior distribution channel for digital products and with his partner Tim Choate, founded Online Interactive. As president and CEO of Online Interactive, John grew the company into a 120 person outfit and successfully engineered the company's acquisition by MicroWarehouse, a two billion dollar direct marketer of computer products. John is also a co-founder of FreeShop.com, a powerful online direct marketing vehicle that enables companies to reach and retain millions of online shoppers. Since its inception, FreeShop.com has generated more than five million orders for thousands of nationally recognized clients, including The Wall Street Journal, Johnson & Johnson, eBay, and The Walt Disney Company. John was also instrumental in the subsequent spin-off of FreeShop.com from Online Interactive and played a major role in the company's IPO in the Fall of 1999. Prior to starting Online Interactive, John was Vice President of Softdisk Publishing, where he launched the world's first downloadable software store. John holds a B.S. in Finance and International Business from the Sand Diego State University School of Business.Questions to be addressed:
1) 'Moral dilemmas' tend to be somewhat industry specific. What do you consider the greatest ethical challenge facing your industry today?
2) One of the current issues facing virtually all companies today is that of privacy. What is your company policy with respect to issues of privacy -- either privacy for internet customers, or privacy of employee information?
3) Recently Amazon.com has received some criticism for a change in its 'ownership of information' policy:
http://www.amazon.com/privacy-noticeIn short, Amazon now reserves the right to 'sell' customer information to third parties. What is your 'take' on the ownership of customer information? Do you have an explicit policy related to 'selling' customer information to third-party vendors?
4) Most strategic decisions impact a number of organizational constituencies. When you engage in strategic decision-making, what 'stakeholders' do you put first in the process? Second? Third? How do you balance the potentially competing interests of stakeholder groups?
5) Experience counts for a lot. If you were to offer one piece of advice to executives regarding how to wade through difficult ethical dilemmas, what would that advice be?
The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism..., Part B- What Comes Next? (Readings Packet: Article 5-a.)
- The World According to MeDunn 14 October 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
*Application: Case Presentations Davidofsky/Iverson/Roberts/Sanchez/Vredenburgh
Challenger Disaster
James/Jolly/Mehrer
Bobby Knight and IU Basketball
for more information, visit http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/news/2000/09/10/iu_knight_ap/
Andrioff/Burkle/Cota/Lam/Mills/Rogers
Valerie Stallings and Conflict of Interest
The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism..., Chapters 8 & 9- Taylor, Fredrick. `The Principles of Scientific Management'
- Terkel, Studs. 'Working'. (Chapter titles: Carl Murray Bates, Walter Lundquist, Donna Murray, Roberta Victor, Nora Watson)Dunn 27 October 2000 TERM PAPERS DUE
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