List of Contributions

I am deeply saddened to hear this news about a dear friend and wonderful colleague. Ann was a mentor and example to me. Her kindness was unbounded. She is truly a bright light in the SIM community. I will miss her keenly. Jeff Thompson, Ph.D. MPA Program Director George W. Romney Institute of ...

Colleagues: The registration website is now up for the Third Annual Teaching Ethics in Universities Conference: Master Class in Business Ethics, sponsored by the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University and the Society for Business Ethics. You can now register at: https://commerce.cashnet.com/webwi ...

Nancy, We use "Miss Evers' Boys" in both the undergrad and masters-level ethics courses. There is the occasional rare complaint from undergrads that the movie isn't exciting enough (no car chases!), but overall the film has played extremely well to both audiences. Jeff Jeff Thompson, Ph.D.Associate ...

Speaking of the Tuskegee experiment, the HBO film "Miss Evers' Boys" is a magnificent ethics film about the experiment, depicted from the perspective of the lead nurse who feels trapped within the organization that is conducting the experiment. We use it in virtually all of our ethics courses here at ...

Linda, Regarding your first question, I used portions of Chapter 2 of Hosmer's The Ethics of Management, 5th Ed. in my MBA class for this purpose. It seemed to provide the impetus for good discussion. And, somewhat to my surprise, my MBA's responded really well when I had them read ...