uccs cob ethics initiative newsletter august 2011
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2011 Small Business Day
June 9, 2011
Ms. Sherron Watkins, former Vice President at Enron Corporation, spoke on the importance of ethical corporate leadership to highlight the importance of ethics within businesses small and large at the 2011 Small Business Day Awards Luncheon. The UCCS Ethics Initiative teamed with the Small Business Development Center in order to bring this important keynote speaker to
Colorado Springs.
Sherron Watkins was the key whistleblower at Enron when she alerted then-CEO Ken Lay to accounting irregularities within Enron in August of 2001, warning him that the company "might implode in a wave of accounting scandals." She testified before Congressional committees from the United States House and Senate investigating Enron's demise. Over 64 attendees were at the Ethics Workshop prior to her luncheon ad-dress. The interactive workshop for-mat with Ms. Watkins and local busi-ness owner Mr. Wendel Torres al-lowed attendees to ask a variety of business ethics questions, as well as hear about the unique business ethical
dilemmas they have experienced.
Selected Ethics
Quote
"It is curious - curious that
physical courage should be
so common in the world, and
moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain [Mark Twain Biography link]
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Contents
Small Business Day ............... 1
Student Activities .................. 2
The UCCS Business Ethics
Case Competition ................ 2
Ethics Grants in Action ....... 3
Ethics Website Access ........ 3
Ethics in Golf Industry ......... 3
Bill Daniels Ethics Luncheon
Speaker Series ....................... 4
Upcoming Events
September 16
Junior Achievement Teaching Business Ethics
Program at UCCS
October 6
Fall Alumni Community
Outreach Event at UCCS
October 20
2011 Eller Collegiate Ethics Case Competition at the University of
Arizona
Please visit the Events Page on
the UCCS Ethics Initiative
website to stay abreast of all
our upcoming events.
College of Business
Sherron Watkins was
the key whistleblower
during the
Enron scandal.
College of Business
Ongoing Summer/Fall 2011:
Student Video Summary: Spring 2011 Business Ethics Luncheon Speaker Series at
UCCS
Working in cooperation with the College of Business Education Technology personnel, the Ethics Initiative has produced a short video clip highlighting the recent Business Ethics Luncheon Speaker Series featuring Rhonda Miller of Eaton Corporation. More videos of this type are planned for future events, as a way to preserve the essence of events while informing students of ongoing Ethics Initiative activities in an interesting and entertaining way. Please look for future videos in the Faculty Resources section of the UCCS Ethics Initiative
website.
Fall 2011:
Ethics Testimonials at UCCS
In an attempt to raise
awareness of the ethical challenges within our local community, the UCCS Ethics Initiative has begun a local video series highlighting members of the Colorado Springs community. These community members speak frankly about what happened within their lives, and lessons learned from ethical shortcomings and/or violations. The first in the series, Mr. Wendel Torres, will be featured on the Ethics Initiative
website.
Check out the Faculty Resources
section on the
UCCS Ethics Initiative website
for upcoming Student Video
Summaries and Ethics Testimonials.
delivery, depth of analysis, persuasiveness, and whether recommendations were both ethical and practical in a business context. Mr. Randy Dziendziel, Ethics Officer from Lockheed Martin, was the keynote speaker at the awards ceremony.
April 8, 2011
The UCCS Business Ethics Case Competition was an opportunity for students to compete and win prizes while learning about the implementation of ethical ideas. Each team was asked to identify the stakeholders in the case, as well as the financial, legal, and philosophical considerations that had to be taken into account. Teams then offered recommendations on how to proceed. Teams were asked to assume a particular identity (e.g., company employees and/or con-sultants) and present to a particu-lar audience (e.g., company exec-utives and/or a board of direc-tors). Presentations of no more than 20 minutes were followed by 0 minutes of questioning from
the judges. Teams were judged on criteria
such as
The three winning teams were:
1st Place — $400 Catherine Rautenkranz &
Catherine Jekel
2nd place — $300
Kyle Wilson and Ben Cornella
3rd place — $200 Mindy Gidan and Sam Henry
Student Activities Bulletin
The UCCS Business Ethics Case Competition
ETHICS INITIATIVE N EWSLETTER
A UCCS student deep in thought at a recent Ethics Initiative event.
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Catherine Rautenkranz & Catherine Jekel, first place winners of the inaugural UCCS Business Ethics Case Competition.
Randy Dziendziel and Dean Reddy .
AUGUST 2011
You are invited to register at the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative website. Registration will grant you access to the ethics resources of all the Bill Daniels Ethics Consortium partner universities.
Grants in Action!
Peggy Knock received a Curriculum
Development Grant for incorporating
ethics, sustainability concepts, and cases
studies into the Quantitative Methods
course "QUAN 2020."
Case studies now ready for your use are:
Football Stadium Case Study
Green Stocks vs. Traditional Stocks Case Study
Mystery Shopper Case Study
John Brock, Director of the Center for Economic Education at UCCS, received a Curriculum Development Grant for use in
conducting two ethics and economics teacher workshops.
The first workshop, taught by Mike Lucchesi (instructor at UCCS and part of the economics faculty at the USAFA), was the Air Academy School District 20 In-Service Workshop
held on June 9, 2011.
The second workshop, an Ethics and Economics Teacher Workshop held on July 12, 2011, was created through the cooperation of the Center for Economic Education, the Colorado Council for Economic Education, and the Colorado Humanities Council. Teachers at the workshops were provided with the book "Experience in Teaching
Business Ethics" courtesy of the Ethics Initiative.
them to better understand the ethics inherent in working in the golf industry. With the success of the Golf Pride® brand, Eaton is the world's largest producer of golf club grips, with research, design, manufacturing, sales and distribution facilities strategically placed on five continents. This event was co-sponsored by UCCS COB Ethics Initiative and
UCCS PGA Golf Management.
March 15, 2011
The Bill Daniels Business Ethics Workshop: Ethics in the Golf Industry workshop, presented by Eaton Corporation in the University Center, was specifically targeted for PGA Golf Management students. Eaton representatives Rhonda Miller and Lissa Putnam interacted with workshop participants in order to enable
Attention Faculty!
Ethics Initiative Updates
The Bill Daniels Ethics Workshop:
Ethics in the Golf Industry
To utilize Kno
ck’s cases,
please register
at the Bill
Daniels Fund
Ethics
Initiative webs
ite below!
Rhonda Miller and Lissa Putnam from Golf Pride.
Dwire Hall on the UCCS Campus
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UCCS Ethics Initiative Staff
Dean Venkat Reddy, Team Lead
[email protected], 719.255.3113
Tracy Gonzalez-Padron, Ph.D.
Director Ethics Initiative
[email protected], 719.255.3794
Elisabeth Moore, Program Coordinator
[email protected], 719.255.5168
Jeff Hourihan, Student Assistant
[email protected], 719.255.5215
Established Collaborations
On Campus
Net Impact
Daniels Scholars
Community Junior Achievement
Bill Daniels Consortium Partner Universities
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
University of Wyoming
Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
University of New Mexico
New Mexico State University
University of Utah
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
March 15, 2011
The Bill Daniels Business Ethics Luncheon Speaker Series, held in the Upper Lodge, brought students, business leaders, educators and the community together in order to engage in dialogue on business ethics. The luncheon keynote featured Eaton Corporation's Rhonda Miller, Manager Global Ethics Education and Training. Ms. Miller spoke about the ethical challenges individuals face as part of a large multi-national corporation, as well as the importance of a corporate culture that makes doing business right a priority. Eaton CEO Sandy Cutler, in a message about global ethics and compliance available on the Eaton website, outlined the importance of ethical conduct of corporations by stating that "Nothing is more important to Eaton's overall success as an enterprise than our ethical values. Our shared regard for the highest standards of honesty and integrity is our biggest strength." The event was co-sponsored by UCCS COB
Ethics Initiative and UCCS PGA Golf Management.
The Bill Daniels Business
Ethics Luncheon
Speaker Series
Rhonda Miller from Eaton Corporation speaking
at the Bill Daniels Ethics Luncheon.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO USA 80918–3733
Good Ethics is
Good Business
Ethics Initiative Website
Barb Danbom and Linda Childears
of the Daniels Fund.
College of Business Dean
Venkat Reddy and Tracy Gonzalez-Padron, Ph.D. speak with Dr. O.C. Ferrell
at the Bill Daniels Business Ethics Luncheon Speaker Series.