Business Ethics Subject MBA

Hello, I am applying for MBA in business ethics and I want to know the colleges provide this course and the course details.

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Hello, here I am providing the details of the course and the name of colleges offers this course as under:

Colleges which provide the MBA in business ethics and ranking:
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 5.87
Virginia (Darden) 5.74
Indiana (Kelley) 5.63
Maryland (Smith) 5.58
Yale 5.58
IESE Business School 5.56
Texas A&M (Mays) 5.55
Brigham Young (Marriott) 5.42
Dartmouth (Tuck) 5.40
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 5.29


Course description:
The course provides a general grounding in both theoretical and applied ethics. The course content is designed around the following components:
(i) A perspective on the moral content of human action.
(ii) A review and analysis of the range of theories within the field of moral philosophy.
(iii) A critical analysis of the economic (markets) and organisational (commercial entities) contexts within which ethical or unethical decision making and practice operates.
(iv) An insight into applied ethics through the analysis of case studies and insights into codes of practice.


Syllabus:
SESSION 1: Introduction: Business and Society.

Reading

Bakan, J. (2008) 'The Externalising Machine,' in Burchell, J.B. (ed) The Corporate Social Responsibility Reader, Routledge: London (to be distributed).

Documentary: The Corporation (part 1)


SESSION 2: Models of Ethical Decision-making (1): prescriptive theories.

Reading
Stark, A. (1993) 'What's The Matter With Business Ethics?' Harvard Business Review, 71 (3).

n.b. You are not expected to become expert in ethical theory. However, what is important at this stage is that you can recognise influential theories, such as Utilitarianism.

Documentary: The Corporation (part 2).


SESSION 3: Models of Ethical Decision-making (2): questions of character.

Reading:
Hine, J.A.H.S. & Ashman, I. (2010) 'Iceland's Banking Sector and the Political Economy of Crisis,' in Kolb, R.W. (ed) Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Our Economic Future, John Wiley & Sons: New Jersey. (to be distributed).

Group meeting to prepare group assignment.

Class reflection and discussion: Business Ethics Scenarios (to be distributed).


SESSION 4: The Manager, the Corporation and Bureaucratic Rationality

Reading

Hine, J.A.H.S. (2007) 'The Shadow of MacIntyre's Manager in the Kingdom of Conscience constrained,' Business Ethics: A European Review, 16 (4).
Bird, F.B. & Waters, J.A. (2001) 'The Moral Muteness of Managers,' California Review, (reprint from edition Fall 1989).


SESSION 5: Corporate Governance.

Reading
Erturk, I. Et al. (2004) 'Corporate governance and disappointment,' Review of International Political Economy, 11:4, 677-713.
McCall, J.J. (2004) 'Assessing American executive compensation: a cautionary tale for Europeans,' Business Ethics: A European Review, 13 (4). (to be distributed).
Sternberg, E. (1997) 'The Defects of Stakeholder Theory,' Scholarly Research and Theory Papers Vol. 5:1. (to be distributed)

The British Telecom Better Business Game; Purposeful business


SESSION 6: The Corporate Social Responsibility Debate

Reading

Crook, C. (2005) 'The Good Company,' The Economist. (to be distributed)
Porter, M. E. and Kramer, M. R. (2006) 'The competitive advantage of corporate philanthropy,' Harvard Business Review 80 (12), pp. 56-68.
Hine, J.A.H.S. and Preuss, L. (2008) '"Society is Out There, Organisation is in Here": On the Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility Held by Different Managerial Groups,' Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 88:2


SESSION 7: International Business

Reading

Zadek, S. (2004) 'The Path to Corporate Responsibility,' Harvard Business Review, December. (to be distributed).
Royle, T. (2005) 'Realism or Idealism? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Employee Stakeholder in the Global Fast-food Industry,' Business Ethics: A European Review, Vol. 14, No. 1.


SESSION 8: Corporate Strategy for Reputation Management.

Reading

Cadbury, A. (1987) 'Ethical managers make their own rules,' Harvard Business Review, (reprint - to be distributed).
Hollender, J. (2004) 'What matters Most: Corporate Values and Social Responsibility,' California Management Review, 46 (4). (to be distributed)

Case Study: McCoy, B. 'The Parable of the Sadhu,' Harvard Business Review (reprint - to be distributed in Session 7).