Required MBA Courses Addressing Ethics

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

POLECON 230. Strategy in the Business Environment (pre-term)
This course addresses managerial issues in the social, political, legal, and ethical. environment of business. Cases and readings emphasize strategies to improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies. Cases are set in both the U.S. and non-U.S. environments and illustrate how managers are called upon to interact with the public and governments in local, national, and international settings. Topics include integrated strategy, activists and the media, legislation affecting business, regulation and antitrust, intellectual property, Internet privacy, International trade policy, and ethics.

POLECON 235. Ethics (last semester of program)
An important component of responsible management is how a company's managers deal with ethical issues. The three principal objectives of this course are to consider an important set of ethics systems, increase the precision with which students think about, discuss, and practice ethics, and provide opportunities to apply ethics systems to business problems. The approach taken to ethics is based on moral principles, and the focus is on systems that provide foundations for ethical intuitions pertaining to well-being, rights, and justice.