business ethics week

Business Ethics Week is November 2--6, 2009
This is the fourth annual focus on Business Ethics by the
College of Business Faculty at San Francisco State University

What is Business Ethics Week?

Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 7 pm, HSS 135:
Katie Excoffier, Sustainability Specialist, Genentech, will talk about social responsibility and sustainability efforts (ethical, environmental initiatives) of Genentech and the employee-driven Green Genes activities. She will present a 30 minute talk, then participate in a Management Organization for Business Students and all CoB student organizations panel discussion before taking Q&A from the audience.

Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 5-6:15 pm, at the DTC 6th floor (Room 675-676):
Tim Smith, Founder of All About the Future, which provides sustainable development services to for-profit and non-profit entities. Previously, Tim spent 25 years at Shaklee Corporation where he was the Senior Director of Sustainable Development. Prior to Shaklee, Tim was the Merchandise Manager at Levi Strauss & Co. in the Fashion Jeans Division. His presentation for MBA/EMBA students and faculty, "Business Ethics and Corporate Strategy" will provide insight into corporate practices related to sustainable strategic inititatives.

Activities by individual faculty in support of Business Ethics Week Fall 2009

** Jason Harris-Boundy will have discussions of managerial ethics and ethical decision-making in his BUS 788 class. In his IBUS/MGMT 659 class there will be a discussion of ethics based on articles about business negotiations.

** Mitch Marks will have discussions of ethical considerations in the collection, analysis and utilization of employee research data (e.g., employee attitude surveys or focus group interviews) in both his MGMT 670 and 842 classes.

** Bonnie Homan will have a speaker from the DPRC talking about the Accessible Workplace (ADA) and Universal Design in her ISYS 263 class. Disability Programs and Resource Center

** Denise Kleinrichert is moderating student panel case study presentations on the following companies - Collapse of Enron, Nike & Global Labor Issues, Shell Oil in Nigeria, Merck/FDA & Vioxx, Odwalla & E.Coli Outbreak, GlaxoSmithKline & AIDS Drugs - in each of three sections of BUS 682.

** Toni Petkova will focus her students two sections of BUS690 and one section of BUS 890 on business ethics by discussing the case of Monsanto expansion in South America and India with their genetically modified crops. The case raises various ethic, social, and environmental concerns related to practices that are considered illegal in other countries.

** Michael Needham will show his two sections of FIN 350 two videos from PBS' Frontline series:"The Madoff Affair," and "The Warning" and follow them with class discussions.

** Minu Kumar will have a guest speaker in his MKTG 637 and MKTG 433 classes help the students work through the issues brought up in two cases on business ethics. His MKTG 688 students will discuss ethical issues arising in new product development competitive intelligence activities.

** Kathy O'Donnell will have a guest speaker in her MKTG 862 class describing an anit-methamphetamine campaign. Her MKTG 434 students are reading about and discussing ethics in advertising. Her internship students in MKTG 567 are writing a paper specific to their business or industry ethical issues.

** Lutfus Sayeed will lecture on green IT in his ISYS 814 class.

** Bruce Robertson will be giving a special lecture on business ethics in his large MKTG 431 hybrid class.

** Aaron Anderson will have his BUS 888 students focus on Business Strategy versus Business Ethics. Example: "Is Walmart's strategy of providing products at the lowest possible cost an ethically sustainable business strategy?"

** Jennifer Tosti-Kharas will have the students in her two section MGMT 605 discussing corporate culture, with a focus on how companies can create a culture of ethical practice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.

** Will Weinstein will have a guest speaker in his MGMT 855 class: Mary Bitterman, President, Bernard Osher Foundation and Lead Director, Bank of Hawaii, speaking about corporate goverance and ethical behavior.

** Murray Silverman lead his students in MGMT 856 Environmental Management Systems and ISO14001 plus the Benziger Family Winery case and their efforts to implement an Environmental Management System.

** Eric Lamm will discuss the fine line between behaving politically and behaving unethically in his MGMT 605 class.

** Theresa Hammond will be showing the documentary "From First to Worst" about the impact of California budgets on education in ACCT 305 and in BUS 781.

** Susan Cholette will have a guest speaker in her BUS 786 class who will talk about his firm's commitment to sustainability, including some examples of how Method Home have been working to reduce their carbon footprint in their distribution of goods.

** Lihua Wang will be discussing sweatshop issues in her two sections of IBUS 690.

** Yim Yu Wong will have two guest speakers in her IBUS 815 class discussing sustainability in supply chain management and sustainable brands.

** John Dopp will discuss the topic of "why the measurement of the GDP is misleading" in his BUS 883.

** Amy Chang will have her students in ACCT 301 and ACCT 303 attend one of the special speaker events during the week and write a summary.

** Mohsen Tavakolian will have class discussions of business ethics related cases in his two sections of ACCT 302 and his section of ACCT 501.

** Bill Perttula will have a guest speaker from a San Francisco advertising agency discuss online advertising and ethical issues in his MKTG 469 class.

** Mahmood Hussain will have both his sections of MKTG 649 discussing a case titled "Incredible Shrinking
Potato Chip Package" which addresses ethical issues in pricing.

** Joel Nicholson will have his large section of IBUS 330 view a video illustrating a combination of CSR with Ethics in the context of the firm's internationalization process occurring across a variety of environmental social/legal/economic/political arenas.

** Mike Albert will discuss ethics and human resource management in his megasection of MGMT 405

** Leyla Ozsen showed a video on "cradle to cradle" design to her DS 412 class and discussed the concept of sustainability.

** Gulnur Tumbat showed a video on meaning of "green products" in her two sections of MKTG 434 and her section of MKTG 633.

** Rick Castaldi has his students in two sections of BUS 690 read and discuss a case on Nucor Steel which is known for socially responsible and environmentally sustainable projects.

** Peter Melhus has his students in two sections of BUS 784 discussing global climate change and sustainable development. His BUS 857 class will be discussing transportation options for a more sustainable future.

** Don Danner will be discussing the ethical use of information technology in the work place in his ISYS 263 and ISYS 363 classes.

** Veronika Papyrina discussed ethical issues related to the publication of caricatures of Muhammad by a Danish newspaper in her two MKTG 432 sections.

** Geoff Desa had his MGMT 435 students attend a panel discussion on Social and Technology Entrepreneurship.

Business Ethics Week: October 27---31, 2008

Monday: Jon Hoak, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer,
Hewlett-Packard Corporation speaks at our Downtown Center from 5:00 to 6:15pm
"Promoting a Culture of Integrity"

Tuesday: Freshmen with an interest in business watched an episode of The Office (Diversity) and discussed the ethical issues presented with the help of Denise Kleinrichert and Bill Perttula of the College of Business, 8 to 9:15pm

Thursday: Kim Winston, Manager, Civic and Community Affairs, Western Division,
Starbucks Coffee Company speaks at our Downtown Center from 5:00 to 6:15pm.

"What Does Ethics Got To Do With It?

Ethical Behavior in the Age of Local Relevance"

Friday: Alumni Networking Event and Business Ethics Week combine at the Downtown Center from 5:00 to 7:00pm

Alumni Business Ethics Panel:
Michael Dore, Sr. Technical Architect, Theravance, Inc. - pharmaceutical industry [BS '02, MBA '05]
Camilla Burg, Outreach Co-ordinator, Natural Capital Institute [MBA '03]
Wendy Weiss, CPA - Tax, Grant-Thornton LLP [BS '94]
Angela Garcia-Lopez, CPA, Accountant, Grant Thornton LLP [BS '00]

COB

Activities by individual faculty in support of Business Ethics Week Fall 2007 [ n = 56 on Nov. 7]
** Humaira Mahi will be discussing a case on AIDS drugs pricing in Africa in her two sections of BUS 330

** Michael Meeks has three classes, BUS 690, BUS 890, and MGMT/IBUS 659 all discussing business ethics

** Jason Harris-Boundy will have both his courses MGMT 648 (Leadership) and BUS 788 (Mgmt Principles & OB) courses focused on business ethics with text readings, articles and cases.

** Bill Perttula will have his MKTG 469 Internet Marketing students read about government and private abuses of the Internet along with a class discussion

** Denise Kleinrichert will have her two sections of BUS 682 watch a video of corporate industrial environmental impacts on soil and groundwater in Massachusetts followed by class discussion plus a discussion of Merck and the pharmaceutical industry's corporate social responsibilities in public health concerns in developing countries.

** Aaron Anderson will have a guest speaker in his BUS 888 class talking about the ethically slippery practices some of their competitors use to gain leverage in their industry.

** Linda Saytes will have her students in MGMT 342 and BUS 360 classes watching parts of the Enron DVD and discussing business ethics

** Mike Albert will discuss ethics and human resource management in his megasection of MGMT 405

** Mitch Marks will have his students in MGMT 670 and MGMT 842 collect and analyze employee data then discuss the ethical issues that arise with such actions

** Gene Hendrix will have his students in MGMT 842 see the documentary Mardi Gras Beads and discuss the ethics of the practices shown

** Yim-Yu Wong will have both of her IBUS 815 sections attend the talk on ethics and ethical behavior by the manager from Starbucks Coffee on Thursday October 8

** Bruce Robertson will discuss business ethics in his megasection MKTG 431

** Bob Daniels will have a lecture and discussion in his ACCT 804 Legal and Professional Responsibilities in Accounting class that includes the topic of the law and ethics

** Peter Melhus will have both of his sections of BUS 784 focus on sustainable development and global climate change including the topic of intergenerational ethics

** Bruce Heiman will have his IBUS 593 students focusing on ethical issues in international business

** Patricia Kalman will have her BUS 360 Business Communications students learn about and discuss the poor communications and ethical problems surrounding the Columbia shuttle disaster

** Antoaneta Petkova will have a case discussion in both her sections of BUS 690 of Tata Steel and the rewards that its fine behavior has brought to it

** Sanjit Sengupta will have his MKTG 860 students discussing a case on ethics and social responsibility: Project Shakti: Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer and will cover Realizing the Promise of Technology: Societal, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations with his MKTG 865 students

** Florence Alberts will have discussions of 14 ethical principles in her BUS 682 class and her MGMT 354 class

** Lutfus Sayeed will be discussing green IT in his ISYS 814 class

** Joel Nicholson will post another video on business ethics for his BUS 330 class

** Amy Chang will have her students in both sections of her ACCT 303 class present summaries of articles related to business ethics

** Bonnie Homan will cover a chapter on the personal and social impact of computers in her ISYS 263 sections and have presentations in her megasections of ISYS 263 by a Disability Programs and Resource Center's representative about ADA and Universal Design

** Janet Newman will have oral presentations on business ethics by students in her section of BUS 360

** Shari Weiss will have her MKTG 432 students discuss the ethics chapter in their text and an ethics article she wrote while in her BUS 360 class there is a presentation on business ethics followed by a discussion

** Bo Hu will review business ethics and use a related case study in the hospitality industry in her HM 590 Integrated Seminar in Hospitality Management class

** Minu Kumar will review earlier discussions of business ethics in his MKTG 433 class and MKTG 637 classes

** Eric Lamm will have his two sections of MGMT 605 consider ethical issues during negotiations

** Susan Cholette will discuss ethical aspects of project control in DS 856 on project management

** Julia Miyaoka will discuss the value of information and ethical issues associated with obtaining valuable information (such as competitor information) and/or acting on valuable information (such as insider trading) in both of her sections of DS 411 Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets

** Mohsen Tavakolian will discuss cases with business ethics content in both sections of his ACCT 301 and his ACCT 100 section

** Astrid Proboll will be discussing business ethics in her MKTG 649, her BUS 787, and her BUS 360 classes

** John Tripp will have his students in MKTG 434 and BUS 360 examine an ethics case study as teams and then present what they would do in the situation presented

** Bill Hefter will have a section of ACCT 301 looking at a real world scenario in accounting and telling how they would respond concerning the business ethics presented

** Sally Baack will have her BUS 890 class and her MGMT 857 class reading and discussing a case she wrote about Hewlett-Packard and its secret surveillance activities of a couple of years ago

** Susan Connell will have both of her sections of BUS 360 develop workplace Internet Use Policies that address the legal and ethical issues of both employee privacy and of monitoring by employers

** Ming Li will have his students in FIN 825 discuss a 2006 occurence of market timing trading. All trading firms in US prohibit traders from market timing because it is considered unethical, though legal.

** Theresa Roeder will have her students in DS 412 discussing ethics and operations and decision making. Her DS 601 students will have brief discussion of this same topic.

** Vijay Mehrotra will have his DS 412 students discuss how the global business system is highly dependent upon honesty, transparency, and trust.

** Gulnur Tumbat willl discuss how companies use socially responsible or ethical marketing buzz words to promote their businesses while their actions tell a completely different story: MKTG 434, MKTG 633, MKTG 861.

** Robert Saltzman will discuss some ethical issues business faculty face in his DS 412 section

** Rob Nickerson will discuss ethics in data management in his ISYS 864 class

** Mahmood Hussain will have his students discuss a case about pricing, profits, and consumer trust in his three sections of MKTG 649

** Don Danner will have his ISYS 363 students focus on ethical uses of information technology

** Jeff Saperstein will have his three sections of BUS 514 write specifically about a business situation that illustrates to them something that is legally or morally wrong

** Geb Woldeyesus will have a business ethics case discussion in both of his sections of BUS 682

** Subin Im will show a video clip and discuss the ethical implications of marketing new products through advertising and promotion in his MKTG 688 class

** Sylvia Flatt will have her MGMT 670 class and MGMT 848 EMBA class focus on business ethics through writing and class discussion

** Yim-Yu Wong will have both her IBUS 815 classes attend the Business Ethics Week speaker on November 8 to complete a focus on ethics that began in September

** Chris Danko will discuss ethical data collection in both his sections of DS 212

** Anne Wenzel will have both her sections of MGMT 407 listen to a recent Commonwealth Club speech on ethics and read a handout on corporate conduct and prison terms

** Kathy O'Donnell will have her MKTG 440 attend the Keen Company presentation on Nov. 6 and her MGMT 862 class attend the Starbucks presentation on Nov. 8 and discuss the presentation in the class session that follows

** Bruce Paton has his three different classes looking at different topics: BUS 450 sustainability programs; MGMT 655 social and ethical responsibilities toward customers; BUS 682 corporate behavior in a product recall (Vioxx)

** Nini Yang has both of her sections of IBUS 681 working on team reports about cross-cultural ethical conflicts

** Mark Landis will cover potential fraud, fraud, internal controls over fraud, government reponses to fraud, and auditor responsibility to detect fraud in his two sections of ACCT 307

** Tom Staley will discuss the ethics of buying fast food produced by workers who are being exploited and governement prosecutions that have occurred in his MGMT 407 class

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Resources for faculty participating in Business Ethics Week

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Corporate Business Ethics

Speaker: Roger Gray, former CIO of PG&E and currently COO of IP Networks in San Francisco.
With an introduction by President Robert Corrigan

Tues., Nov. 7
5:00–6:45pm
Science Bldg., Room 101
Open to All

Corporations and the Natural Environment: Does the Market Trump Ethics?

An exploration of the limits imposed by competitive markets on the corporation's ethical behavior in protecting the natural environment.

Panel: Dean Joel Kassiola, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Professor Murray Silverman,
College of Business; and Assistant Professor Bruce Paton, College of Business

Wed., Nov. 8
5:00–6:45pm
Burk Hall, Room 226
Open to All

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Activities by individual faculty in support of Business Ethics Week Fall 2006
[a listing of what individual faculty (n = 51) are doing during the Week]

** Bill Perttula will have a guest speaker in his Internet Marketing MKTG 469 course who has advised many businesses on ethical issues related to web sites.

** Patricia Kalman will lead a discussion in BUS 360 of poor communication and ethical considerations in the mistakes leading up to the Columbia shuttle disaster

** Mitchell Marks will have his graduate students in MGMT 842 read and discuss "Ethical Guidelines for an Organization Development Professional."

** Michael Meeks will have his BUS 690 sections and his EMBA class watch "The Corporation", a 2005 award winning documentary, prior to discussing ethics and business strategies.

** Sam Gill will have a presentation and discussion on: “Ethical Guidelines for Creating Corporate WebSites” in ISYS 475 and in ISYS 882 a guest speaker and discussion on IT Governance: SOX and CoBIT

** Don Danner will have his ISYS 363 students reading and discussing online 3 to 4 articles related to ethics and IT

** Bruce Roberton will present a lecture on ethics with a focus on marketing ethics in his 900 student MKTG 431 class

** Sanjit Sengupta will lead a discussion of an B2B ethics case in his MKTG 441 and a pharmaceutical industry ethics case in MKTG 865

** Anne Wenzel will have a guest speaker in her Monday night section of MGMT 407 and in her Wednesday night section of MGMT 407 (both will talk about aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley

** Jeff Saperstein discuss aspects of business ethics in both his sections of BUS 360 and in MKTG 649

** Bruce Heiman will have a guest speaker talking about the environment in one of his two sections of IBUS 590

** Humaira Mahi will have a discussion/case study related to business ethics in the Asia Pacific region in her IBUS 594 class

** Mike Albert will return to ethics during Ethics Week with his mega section of MGMT 405 when he discusses human resources

** Stephen Rudman will lead discussions of ethics in his IBUS 430 class and his IBUS 517 class

** Bill Hess will discuss examples of ethics in his sales management course, MKTG 637

** Murray Silverman will have his two sections of BUS 682 discussing ethics aspects of two videos

** Mohsen Tavakolian will be discussing special ethics cases in accounting in his two sections of ACCT 100 and in ACCT 302

** Sameer Verma will discuss business ethics in his ISYS 363 class and aspects of software ethics in his ISYS 573 class

** Bonnie Homan will have her ISYS 263 students read and discuss the text chapter entitled "Security, Privacy and Ethical Issues in Information Systems"

** Uday will discuss Ethical Issues in Project Management with his graduate students in DS 856

** Rob Nickerson will discuss aspects of the ethics related to the use and management of data in ISYS 864 (Database Management)

** Janet Newman will have her students do group presentations regarding business ethics in her BUS 360 section

** Florence Alberts will have lecture and discussion of business ethics in her BUS 682 class

** Mahmood Hussain have a case discussion on "cost v price v value" in his two MKTG 649 sections

** Shari Weiss will cover the Ethics textbook chapter in her MKTG 432 course and have student speeches on ethics in BUS 360

** John Tripp will discuss ethics in his BUS 360 course and in his two sections of MKTG 434

** Foo Nin Ho will discuss ethics in both his MKTG 633 and MKTG 632 courses

** Gulnur Tumbat will discuss ethics in MKTG 633 and her graduate class, MKTG 861

** Tom Staley will use "backdating stock options" in his discussion ethics in his two sections of MGMT 407 and two sections of BUS 783

** Linda Saytes will discuss ethics in her MKTG 432 class

** Subin Im will have a discussion of ethics in product management in MKTG 688

** Deanna Wang will discuss ethics related to marketing research in her two sections of MKTG 632

** Lutfus Sayeed will show the fillm Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room in his ACCT 307 followed by a class discussion

** Mark Landis will discuss unethical accounting reporting and decision making and the role of auditors in his ACCT 101 class

** Susan Connell will have her graduate students in BUS 514 read and discuss textbook materials, "Legal and Ethical Constraints as Strategic Forces Influencing Business Communication".

** Lik Mui will discuss software privacy and other topics in his ISYS 338 and discuss business ethics in software development in his ISYS 367 course

** Peg Thompson has her students in three sections of BUS 360 preparing and giving speeches about ethical problems in business

** George Li will have a business ethics case discussion in his two sections of FIN 351 and in his graduate course, FIN 819

** Bruce Paton has his BUS 682 class discussing employee treatment and sexual harassment, his BUS 450 class discussing solar power and the poor in Brazil, his graduate class, BUS 784, discussing employee treatment and executive compensation

** Ron Purser will have his MGMT 842 graduate students view and discuss The Corporation, a documentary based on a book by Joel Bakan called The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. In addition he will share the highlights of a conference he recently attended: Business As An Agent of World Benefit

** Paul Fung will discuss stock option backdating in his two sections of FIN 350

** Thad Usowicz will have his ISYS 263 students read and discuss the text chapter entitled "Security, Privacy and Ethical Issues in Information Systems"

** Lihua Wang will have her students in IBUS 330 view a video interview with a Walmart executive and discuss the firm's international strategy with a focus on ethics

** Kathy O'Donnell will have her students in MKTG 440 discussing and writing papers on the Gap's Inspi(red) campaign and cause-releated marketing

** Astrid Proboll will discuss ethics in her marketing research course, MKTG 632, and her advertising course, MKTG 434, plus discuss the ethics of resume writing in both sections of BUS 360

** Aaron Anderson will have his graduate students in BUS 888 and MGMT 848 discussing ethics and ethical role models

** Yikuan Lee will have her students in IBUS 330 discuss two cases about ethics in international business

** Donglin Li will discuss ethical issues faced by financial analysts and auditors in FIN 357 and ethical issues in FIN 350

** Sally Baack will be covering ethics and leadership for Ethics Week and the following week in her Mgmt 848 course

** Joel Nicholson will be launching a multimedia site which focuses on business ethics materials in connection with his IBUS 330 online class

** David Jones will have his HM 560 students discussing the ethical aspects of diversity among employees in the restaurant field

** Bill Hefter will have his graduate students in BUS 780 learning about the various ways people have approached the idea of ethics through history and the conceptual framework of ethics for the accounting profession as it appears in the Principles of the Code of Professional Conduct

** Jason Harris-Boundy will have both sections of BUS 788 discussing ethics in the context of risky decision-making

** Ming Li will have her undergraduates in FIN 535 and her graduate students in FIN 825 discussing ethics through the use of cases in finance

** Susan Cholette will have her two sections of DS 212 researching examples of statistics that have ethical components

** Joshua Mindel will have his undergraduates in ISYS 363 and his two graduate sections of ISYS 814 discuss ethics

** Peter Melhus will discuss the responses to questions about ethics on an exam with his two sections of BUS 682

one Dilbert cartoon
one top executive at Enron