One of the key courses in the curriculum, Biomedical and Management Ethics , uses case studies to enhance students' analytical skills and to draw out their values and beliefs. Ethical leadership is also a central theme. The course also addresses professional ethics and responsibilities in the workplace. Other efforts to integrate ethical analysis are being explored by the Accounting MBA faculty and staff. In addition to the traditional academic programs that make up GSB, a number of other education programs are part of the school.
Several centers provide continuing, non-credit education for various professional populations.
In addition, the Applied Research Center encourages GSB faculty to do research within business settings and to publish those findings. We are working with these centers as appropriate to encourage attention to the ethical aspects of business. The Global Leadership Seminar, taught in the style of the Great Books seminars of the Aspen Institute, is designed to enhance the effectiveness and broaden the perspectives of decision makers throughout our society. In Spring of 2001, the program will offer a new seminar directed at judges and lawyers. Merritt Marquardt, former member of 3M's Office of General Counsel, heads up this executive education effort.