Business Ethics
MBA Consultants to Non-Profits Program
Sponsored since 2006 by Adam Carlin, MBA ’94 and principal of Bermont/Carlin Group, a local Morgan Stanley Smith Barney affiliate, with additional support over the years as noted, this School of Business program supports select MBA students to work at non-profit organizations during the summer between their first and second year. Students are mentored by faculty and by members of the board of the non-profit; they present their summer work to an Advisory Council of executives each fall. “This experience is a win-win-win for the student, the SBA and the community,” says Anita Cava, director of the Business Ethics Program and co-director of UM Ethics Programs, who conceived the program and who collaborates with the Ziff Career Planning and Placement Center to implement it.
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UM Ethics Debates at the SBA
Conceived and funded by Karl and Teresa Schulze, and further supported by philanthropist and businesswoman Adrienne Arsht, the purpose of the annual debates is to heighten students’ awareness of the ethical components of real-life situations and to improve their debating and communications skills.
The debate model is drawn from the national Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, which is held every year in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE).
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Business Ethics Film Series
Originally launched in 2006 as a joint effort by the UM Alumni Office and Business Ethics Programs, the Business Ethics in Film Series built upon the Business Ethics Speaker Series to provide an opportunity to further discuss thorny ethical issues. Quickly expanded to include the School of Communication in 2007, the Ethics in Film Series has become a popular annual event held in the Cosford Auditorium, free and open to the public.
Ethics in Film List.
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Corporate Social Ethics
With funding from the UM Ethics Programs, David Chandler has produced reports on the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR):
Community Prosperity Initiative
The Business Ethics Program is a key partner in the CPI, launched by the Human Services Coalition of Miami-Dade in January 2004 with publication of Building Community Prosperity in Miami-Dade: Civic Engagement, Dialogue and Action. (For a PDF-format copy of the 104-page book, click here.)
Contributions to the book were collected from stakeholder groups within the Miami-Dade community and commentators from across the nation. The overarching aim was to discover and encourage practical applications of corporate and social responsibility values in all areas of civic life, better to build an economy and society that work for all.
For more information about these projects, please contact Anita Cava.