Law and Ethics (FT MBA)

This page will contain information about my Law and Ethics course for the Full-Time MBA program.

Inconsistent Ethics: The New York Times published an article today about inconsistencies in ethical analysis. Author Matthew Hutson reviews the factors that dictate...
Start at the Top: WIRED Magazine reports on a study more fully covered in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which researchers found that...
Higher expectations: Two of the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary American society are political polarization and low expectations of public figures. Aaron Sorkin's...
Leaders ask "Why?": Why is Apple so consistently successful? Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., become the preeminent leader of the civil rights...
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Against all expectations, NPR has used comic-book graphics to convey a story on the psychology of fraud, along with the...
Are you an investing psychopath?: Lynn Stout, a professor of corporate and business law, writes in The Atlantic about the ways investors bifurcate their approach to...
Quick and Dirty Intellectual Property: This entertaining and well-done mini-documentary is the best explanation of current trends in intellectual property that I've seen. Kirby Ferguson...
Alienation of Affection. Seriously: it's real.: When I teach about torts in a business context, I often describe tortious interference, which involves breaking up a business...
I Don't Quite Remember: After their ship sank the Australian HMAS Sydney, the crew of the German HSK Kormoran had to abandon their own...
Power and Doom: NPR's All Things Considered interviews Bard College English Professor Daniel Mendelsohn for an explanation of the phrase, "Sword of Damocles,"...