Ethics is the study of what constitutes good goals that people ought to follow and the right actions or means that should be used to achieve them. Corporate business ethics is ethics applied to corporations. For others the goal is the responsibility of doing good as corporate citizens in many different ways such as increasing benefits to their employees, helping the community in schools, parks, low income housing, hospitals, the environment, advancing human rights and the like.
Some corporations have both goals.
This class is a discussion course that uses the case-method for analyzing and solving recent problems in actual national and international business cases. We look at problems inside corporations that deal with racism, sexual harassment, fraud, technology and Internet problems, biotechnology and others. We also discuss what responsibility or opportunity corporations have outside their gates in the community, society or internationally.