Last night I co-taught the first session of a year-long Business Ethics Seminar.  It was my first time co-teaching, my first time teaching at night (7:30-9:20!), and my first time teaching this topic. 

My partner in crime is my colleague Carol Morgan, who is a dynamo.  She teaches courses on M&A and Business Negotiations, and heads up our corporate counsel externship, which places students in-house for a semester.

Carol and I wanted to explore the ethical issues of transactional practice.  One of the themes of the course is that ethical issues arise all the time, and so we asked the students to anonymously submit a brief description of an ethical question or dilemma they had confronted in their life--but not what they did.  The issues were great, ranging from

a) how to describe clothes on eBay that had been worn for a few hours ("new without tags" or "pre-owned"?) to

b) ignoring company policies forbidding tipping when  or working as a server-- or at a retirement home to

c) whether a roofer should report his customer's insurance fraud--and thereby hurt his business. 

We told the students at the outset that this was a grand experiment, in terms of course design and content.  So far, I'm very pleased.

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