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Peace Through Commerce and Business Ethics
LS 262: Corporate Law Seminar: Organizational Ethics and The Firm
is a Law School course with two aims. One is to consider the ethical
issues arising in the business that is called the practice of law.
This practice can be within a private firm, but also within a general
counsel, government, or public interest organization. The second aim
is to review the current recommendations offered for how to create
ethical corporate cultures so that law students, when they take on
corporations as clients, are in a better position to advise those
clients on how to create ethical organizations. Taught by Professor Tim Fort.
SMPP 190: Business Ethics, Security and Technology
is a business ethics course for undergraduates with a special focus on
technological changes in the marketplace and how businesses can foster
peace through commerce. Taught by Professor Tim Fort.
SMPP 291: Ethics and Business
is an MBA level course focusing on values clarification, creating
ethical awareness, mastering a decision making model to reach ethical
decisions, and how to create the kinds of cultures that foster ethical
behavior on a regular, daily basis. Taught by Professor Tim Fort, Mark Starik, Jeffrey Lenn.
SMPP 391: Normative Dimensions of Business
is a doctoral level course that is designed to a a "great books of
business ethics" seminar. Students directly engage the leading
philosophical, legal, and theological writings of major normative
thinkers in how to create models for ethical business practice. Taught
by Professor Tim Fort.
Environmental Sustainability
SMPP/PPOL 207 Environment, Energy, Technology, & Society
The identification, investigation, and evaluation of how environment,
energy, and technology are inter-related, and how these interactions
influence societal policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation
at the international, regional, national, industrial, and
organizational levels. Taught by Professor Mark Starik.
SMPP 210 Strategic Environmental Management
is an examination of the multiple approaches that businesses,
governments, and non- profit organizations have designed and
implemented in their interactions with their respective natural
environments, and the assessment of the results, with consideration of
future organization-natural environment interactions. Taught by
Professor Mark Starik.
SMPP 211 Corporate Environmental Management in Developing Countries aims to provide a graduate level introduction to corporate environmental management in developing countries. Its main emphasis is on discussing and understanding how the distinctive contextual characteristics of emerging market countries affect business, government, and social groups’ environmental protection preferences and behavior. Taught by
Professor Jorge Rivera.
PAD 265 Environmental Ethics is an examination of the core issue of human obligations toward nonhuman beings and the natural world. Specific issues include “intrinsic value in nature,” the moral standing of animals and plants, and how nonhuman interests should be weighed in relation to human interests, and broader questions about the human place in nature.
PAD 266 Environmental Policy is and examination of current issues in environmental policy, including biodiversity, land use including wilderness protection, climate change, environmental justice, economic growth, and ecological sustainability.
SMPP290 NGO Strategy & Sustainability
is an examination of the non-profit organization sector in developed
and developing country societies focusing on NGO contexts, goals,
strategies, tactics, and results related to societal advancement and on
NGO approaches to socio-economic and environmental sustainability.
Taught by Professor Mark Starik.
SMPP290/PAd266 Environmental Policy: Ecological, Social, & Economic Sustainability
comprehensive, in-depth exploration of global, national, and local
environmental and related social public policy processes, challenges,
and outcomes, including global climate change, poverty, international
trade and environmental agreements, health, environmental security and
quality, corruption, biodiversity, governance, land use, population,
consumption, and equity. Taught by Professor Mark Starik.
SMPP 297 International Management Experience - Sustainable Communities and Organizations
The course objectives are: 1) To explore the multiple aspects of
sustainable communities and organizations; 2) To collect, analyze, and
evaluate sustainability information for use in strategic sustainability
plans and projects; 3) To develop overall strategic action plans for
both community and organizational sustainability, focusing on a
selected and appropriate region; and, 4) To improve student research
collection, analyses, evaluation, management assistance, and
presentation skills. Taught by Professor Mark Starik.
Global Stakeholder Strategies
EMBA 212 Corporate Political Strategy
Executive Masters Program Course. Political, legal, social, economic
and ethical forces acting upon business. Critical and strategic
examination of the interaction of organizations and the public policy
process in the development of laws and regulations. Taught by Professor
Jenn Griffin.
IBUS 166 International Marketing.
Firms participating in international marketing require specialized
expertise regarding the global marketplace. These firms rely on
professional international marketers to (1) identify market
opportunities, (2) select and execute market entry strategy, and (3)
design and manage a successful marketing mix. International marketers
face efficiency and cost pressures to standardize their activities
across markets as well as pressures to adapt activities to meet
specific demands within markets. Identifying the optimal mix of
standardization and adaptation to achieve local and international
success is the goal that international marketers must accomplish.
Taught by Professor Liesl Riddle.
IBUS 269 Managing in Developing Countries.
The majority of traditional Western business curriculum is founded on
theory and research generated in developed countries, where political,
economic, legal, and social institutions generally are formalized,
well-developed, and stable. This course is designed to fill the gap
that often exists between Western business education and managerial
practice in developing countries, where institutions are often
informal, weakly formalized, in transition—or even non-existent. The
historical legacies of developing countries—their political, economic,
legal, and social experiences—have given rise to these institutional
forms. These institutions shape the strategies that firms employ and
the actions that managers take in these environments. Taught by
ProfessorLiesl Riddle.
MBAD 260 Business and Public Policy.
This course provides a foundation for understanding business in the
broader social context.It focuses on political, legal, economic, social
and ethical environments in which business operates. It highlights the
interaction of the market system and the public policy process in the
development of law and regulation. Students will analyze specific
contemporary public policy issues involving business and its various
internal and external stakeholders. A key objective is to enhance
student managerial skills in dealing with complex public policy issues
confronting the contemporary business enterprise. Taught by Professors Jenn Griffin and D. Jeffrey Lenn.
SMPP 053 Management, Organizations, and Society.
Introduction to the manager and the management process in the context
of organizations and society. Focus on effective management of the
corporation in a changing society. Taught by Professors John Forrer, D. Jeffrey Lenn, and Michelle Westermann.
SMPP 213 Management of Strategic Issues.
Analyzes issues and opportunities facing modern businesses. A critical
focus is placed on effectively managing the firm’s political, legal,
economic and social stakeholders by containing, shaping or coping with
strategic business issues to add value. Taught by Professor Jenn Griffin.
SMPP 290 Global CSR
Analyze why, how and under what conditions global businesses are
innovating to address corporate responsibility expectations. Focus on
co-creation of value and innovation to create new markets. Examines
global impact of corporate responsibility on businesses, civil society
and public policy. Taught by Professor Jenn Griffin.
SMPP 290 Corporate Environmental Management in Emerging Markets.
This course aims to provide a graduate level introduction to corporate
environmental management in developing countries. Its main emphasis is
on discussing and understanding how the distinctive contextual
characteristics of emerging market countries affect business,
government, and social groups’ environmental protection preferences and
behavior. While many in the business, government, and non-profit
sectors view environmental protection as inevitably ignored and/or a
threat to competitiveness, others see win-win opportunities. What
allows some actors to see opportunities where others see degradation
and/or a threat to economic growth and competitiveness? To answer this
question the course reviews critical and win-win perspectives on
corporate environmental/social responsibility in developing countries.
Taught by Professor Jorge Rivera.
SMPP 297 Study Abroad Course -- Corporate Social Impacts: Comparing US & UK Policies and Practices.
Investigate corporate policies and practices of social impact in the UK
and US. Although both countries share a common pluralist heritage,
each country has over time adopted different norms and beliefs
affecting how governments, businesses, and civil society co-create
value. A cluster of initiatives has led to a convergence of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) expertise in the UK, while many US firms
have a checkered past regarding CSR. A close comparison of US and UK
CSR policies and practices suggest vastly different levels of
engagement, interest, and activity in all three sectors. This class
explores the similarities, differences, and consequences of corporate
social impacts by focusing on three controversial industries: tobacco,
alcohol, and petrochemicals. Taught by Professor Jenn Griffin.
SMPP 391 Corporate Social Responsibility—Advanced Readings.
Examine organizational theory and management roots of corporate social
responsibility and stakeholder literature. Examine evolution of
empirical CSR research. Identify research strategy for future CSR
research. Taught by Professor Jenn Griffin.
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