Thursday, October 6, 2011

Welcome to Ethics and Governance! (MBA 51-455-05)


I look forward to exploring Ethics and Governance with you over the next 6 weeks in this course.

I will use this blog to provide you some of the latest news in governance and business ethics during the course—and also to provide you useful "bonus" info that is relevant for the different themes and specific cases we will be digging into. It also provides a forum for you to comment upon and discuss issues raised in our course.

To get things underway, we'll open with the classic case of Enron. How did this governance catastrophe happen? How could it have been avoided? Is this case still relevant today?

2 comments:

Jean-Olivier said...

I like in the article how the whistleblower talks about the 'tiny things' like the CEO using his sister inapt travel agency. Surely this should be a sign for anyone not sitting in the executive suite that something is amiss at the top

Lori Weiss said...

Jean-Olivier, it's so funny that you mention the travel agency! I also brought it up in class today!