Business Scandals Prompt Development of New Ethics Course
By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 7, 2004Grumbling may be heard this fall around the Jacobs Management Center as UB's Masters of Business Administration students mutter curses about the likes of John Rigas, Martha Stewart and Dennis Kozlowski.Fall 2005 is the target date for the beginning of a new, mandatory course in business ethics currently being developed by the School of Management's MBA program, mainly as a response to the business scandals that have cropped up in the news recently."It comes out of this round of corporate problems, harking back to Enron as sort of the initial blow-out," said David Frasier, assistant dean of the business school and its director of MBA programs.There are no requirements for the business school to have an ethics course, but Frasier believes the current headlines have demonstrated the need for one."My personal opinion is that if we have adequate depth in personal ethics, then there is no need for corporate ethics.
