BUS 505
Leadership and Society
Spring 2025
Topics
- Apply ethical frameworks to complex business decisions
- Analyze the relationship between individual values and organizational ethics
- Evaluate corporate responses to social and environmental challenges
- Identify and respond to ethical challenges in corporate accountability and transparency
- Develop personal approaches to ethical leadership
- Critically assess the role of responsible business principles to achieve societal impact
- Engage in critical thinking to formulate strategies for building ethical organizational cultures
Readings
- Freeman, R. E. (1994). The Politics of Stakeholder Theory: Some Future Directions1. Business Ethics Quarterly, 4(4), 409-421
- Friedman, M. (1970). of Business is to Increase its Profits. New York Times Magazine, September, 13, 122-126
- De Rond, M., & Lok, J. (2016). Some things can never be unseen: The role of context in psychological injury at war. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 1965-1993
- March, J. G. (2006). Duty, revenge, and innocence: Othello. In J. G. March & T. Weil, On leadership (pp. 61–78). Blackwell Publishing
- Simonite, T. (2018). “3 Years After the Project Maven Uproar, Google Cozies to the Pentagon” Wired Magazine
- Tiku, N. and De Vynck, G. (2025). “Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance.” The Washington Post
- AOM Insights. (2020). The Global Challenge of Corporate Corruption
- den Nieuwenboer, N. A., Cunha, J. V. D., & Treviño, L. K. (2017). Middle managers and corruptive routine translation: The social production of deceptive performance. Organization Science, 28(5), 781-803
- Near, J. P., & Miceli, M. P. (2016). After the wrongdoing: What managers should know about whistleblowing. Business Horizons, 59(1), 105-114
- Dolsak et al. (2022). Dosak, N., Griffin, J. J., & Prakash, A. (2022). Is ESG Simply the Old CSR Wine in a New Bottle? Regulatory Review
- Kaplan, S. (2023). The promises and perils of corporate purpose. Strategy Science, 8(2), 288-301
- Lyon, T. P., Delmas, M. A., Maxwell, J. W., Bansal, P., Chiroleu-Assouline, M., Crifo, P., ... & Wijen, F. (2018). CSR needs CPR: Corporate sustainability and politics. California Management Review, 60(4), 5-24
- Tabuchi, H. (2022). How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Planet. The New York Times
- Pierre-Louis, K. (2023). A Greenwashing Lawsuit Against Delta Aims to Set a Precedent. Bloomberg
- Maslin, M., Lang, J., and Harvey, F. (2023). A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations. UCL Open: Environment. 5(8)
- Ballard, E. (2023). Welcome to COP28, the U.N. Climate Conference Hosted by an Oil Giant. The Wall Street Journal
- Zuboff, S. (2016). The secrets of surveillance capitalism. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Zuboff, S. (2020)
- Verma, P. (2022). Meta's new AI is skilled at a ruthless, power-seeking game. The Washington Post
- Williams, R. (2024). AI systems are getting better at tricking us. MIT Sloan Technology Review
Summer 2024
Topics
- To provide students with real-life cases involving ethical dilemmas within a business setting
- To motivate students to adopt an ethical code of conduct within their personal and professional lives
- To develop and explore steps to sound ethical decision-making in business
- To improve students’ proficiency levels in verbal and written communication
Readings
- Linda K. Trevino and Katherine A. Nelson, Managing Business Ethics, 8th Edition, John Wiley &
- Sons, Inc., 2017
- Thomas J Stanley, Ph.D., The Millionaire Mind. New York Times Best Seller. Andrews McMeel Publishing. © 2001
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
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- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.