David Victor Vector: How Far Is Too Far In Teaching Ethics and Strategy?

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Monday, October 24, 2011

How Far Is Too Far In Teaching Ethics and Strategy?

"Ariff Kachra, who teaches strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business, collected about $500 from students over about 2½ weeks. But he was not soliciting bribes."

Got your attention? This certainly got mine.

This is from the opening of Rita Trucher's excellent article in the Toronto Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/business-education/mba-students-get-a-lesson-they-wont-forget/article2207251/

How far is too far to teach experiential learning in an MBA classroom? This article certainly made me think. I can only imagine how much being in Dr. Kachra classroom would have made me think! So... what are YOUR thoughts?

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More About David Victor's Academic Experience

I teach at the Eastern Michigan University College of Business I am also editor of the Global Advances in Business Communication. http://commons.emich.edu/gabc/

Among other subjects, I teach Managing World Business Communication, Fundamentals of Global Business, international business ethics, international business, Business Ethics/CSR, and International Management as well as a series of "Doing Business In..." seminars for business in specific countries and regions. My course at EMU in Managing World Business Communication first designed and taught nearly 20 years ago was among the first regularly taught on cross-cultural business communication in an AACSB-accredited school.

From 1996-1997, I was President of the Association for Business Communication and helped to establish the European and the Asia/Pacific regions of that organization. In 2010, I was honored to have won the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award, an international prize given by the Association for Business Communication. Over the years, I have received 6 grants from a variety of sources including the US Department of Education and the Federal Government of Canada. .

In 1992, I was the first recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Foreign Professorship (Graduate Level) of the InstitutoTecnologico y EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey. I was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium in 2008 and at the Universidade do Caxias do Sul in Brazil in 2010. I also hold classes for Saint Mary's of California's TransGlobal Executive MBA students.

About David Victor’s Consulting Experience

I have consulted since the mid-1980’s, mostly in the area of international business communication, expatriate relocation and diversity management for a range of clients including school systems, hospital networks and city and state governments as well as a wide range of companies working domestically in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, East Asia and Europe. I have consulted and run programs for over 150 companies and organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the state governments of Idaho, Iowa and Michigan, the American Bar Association and the US Army as well as several city governments and health systems in the US and abroad.