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| Introduction | |
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| Overview: What is an Ethical Dilemma? | |
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| Basic Concepts | |
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| Overview: How do People Respond to Ethical Dilemmas? | |
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| Outcome-Based Decisions: Egoism and Utility | |
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| Scope of Utility: Selecting Relevant Groups | |
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| Kant and �Unique Human Dignity.� | |
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| Kant's Duty Ethics | |
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| Purpose of The Corporation | |
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| Overview: History of Incorporation Law from Ford v. Dodge Era to Present | |
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| Stakeholder Ethics | |
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| Milton Friedman and Shareholder Ethics | |
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| Stakeholder Focus: Employees | |
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| Stakeholder Focus: Plant Closing | |
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| Stakeholder Focus: Communities | |
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| Stakeholder Focus: Customers and Dangerous Products | |
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| Selling, Marketing, and Advertising | |
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| Overview: Fraud and the 1st Amendment | |
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| �Best Case Scenario Ads.� | |
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| Quickly Flashed Fine Print | |
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| Exaggerated Environmental Friendliness | |
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| Celebrity Endorsements: What if the Celebrity Does Not Use the Product? | |
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| Marketing Unhealthy Food to Children | |
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| Children and Violent Video Games | |
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| Using Sex to Sell: Digitally Enhanced Images | |
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| Ethical Selling: Labeling Sleight-of-Hand | |
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| Marketing in the Public Schools | |
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| Continuing to Market Products Found to be Dangerous | |
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| Office Ethics: Treatment of Employees | |
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| Overview: The Employment-at-Will Doctrine | |
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| Discrimination Against Obese Workers | |
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| �Don't Be a Hero� Policies | |
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| Layoffs in Good Economic Times | |
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| Sexual Harassment Policies and Workplace Dating | |
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| The Family and Medical Leave Act and �Fake Illnesses.� | |
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| Firing Workers Responsible for a �Big Problem.� | |
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| Firing Employees who are Part of a Chain that Leads to a �Big Problem.� | |
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| Employee Behavior Away from the Office | |
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| Workplace Diversity | |
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| Non-Compete Agreements and Arbitration Clauses | |
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| Layoffs and Health Care | |
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| Workplace Privacy | |
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| Overview: Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, and Current Issues | |
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| Monitoring Software | |
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| Email Surveillance | |
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| Drug Testing and Polygraph Testing | |
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| Workplace Dating, Sexual Harassment, and �Love Contracts.� | |
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| Background Checks and Social Networking Websites | |
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| Job Applicants and Credit Reports | |
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| Employee Compensation | |
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| Overview: The Ever-growing Gap Between Pay for Executives and �Line Workers.� | |
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| CEO Compensation | |
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| Taxes and Salaries: Egalitarian and Libertarian Policies | |
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| Rawls' Veil of Ignorance and Fair Compensation Systems | |
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| Environmental Ethics | |
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| Overview: History of Environmentalism from the Creation of the EPA to Present | |
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| Dumping | |
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| Cap and Trade and Pollution Credits | |
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| Cars: Hybrids, Plug-ins, Hydrogen and Break-Even Costs | |
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| Wind and Solar Power | |
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| �Green� Buildings | |
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| Corporate Donations to Support Environmental Initiatives | |
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| �Perfectly Good Items�: Wasteful Business Practices | |
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| Special Obligations to Customers | |
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| Overview: Retaining Market Share, Lawsuits, and Legislation | |
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| Customer Deception: Who's to Blame? | |
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| Credit Cards and Payday Loans | |
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| �Microinsurance.� | |
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| Using �Bad� Things to Boost Profits | |
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| Store Cards, Search Engines, and Customer Data | |
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| �Least Profitable Customers.� | |
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| International Ethics | |
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| Overview: The Global Economy | |
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| Overseas Working Conditions | |
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| Outsourcing Jobs and �In-sourcing� Jobs | |
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| Subsistence Wages | |
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| Fair Trade Programs | |
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| The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Bribes | |
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| Enron And �The Last Big Mess.� | |
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| Overview: Sarbanes-Oxley, Audits, and Accounting Reform | |
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| Intentional Misrepresentations | |
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| Investors who are Given Faulty Information | |
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| Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Disaster | |
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| CFOs Pressuring Auditors | |
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| The Great Recession and The �Latest Big Mess.� | |
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| Overview: Root Causes of the Current Recession and a Comparison to the Depression | |
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| Mortgage-Backed Securities and Root Causes of the Great Recession | |
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| The Mortgage Meltdown: Big Investors | |
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| �Outsourcing Yourself.� | |
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| The Making Home Affordable Program | |
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| �Strategic Defaults� and Foreclosures | |
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| Government Actions and Corporate Influence | |
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| Overview: Branch | |