• Summarize the topics presented in the book
• Determine why grappling with making business ethics in the real world requires us to "look beyond greed."
• Construct frameworks to create concrete scenarios from "The Lifeboat Game" to see how readers are already applying these frameworks
• Express why the reader should analyze real-world ethical dilemmas from the perspective of various frameworks
• Recall the concept of externality
• Distinguish between natural and legal persons
• Identify the competing narratives from the Ford Pinto case
• Recall David Sokol's departure from Berkshire Hathaway and the fine line Warren Buffett had to walk
• Diagnose how the accounting profession and its clients responded to the increased risk of class-action lawsuits
• Identify the principle for background rules that promote efficiency
• Evaluate examples of how analysis of variability can deter or catch cheaters
• Compare and contrast the recipes and techniques of various Iron Chefs of organizational culture and ethics
• Review rules of thumb for preparing for and dealing with crises and cross-fires
• Determine the real-world applicability of the book's central themes

Course Outline

Introduction: Enough Already!

PART I: WHAT IS ETHICAL BEHAVIOR?

• 1 CEO Follies: Beyond Greed
• 2 Finding Ethics in a Lifeboat: Decision-MakingFrameworks
• 3 Machiavelli: Self-Interest and Self-Regard Posing as Ethics
• The Trashing of Hilton Head: Who Sets the Ethical Baseline?

PART II: THE ETHICAL BUSINESS AND OTHER FANTASTIC BEASTS

• 5 Owners, Managers, and Stakeholders: Whose Business Is It, Anyway?
• 6 The Market for Reputation: A Fresh Take on the Ford Pinto Scandal
• 7 “You Deal, You Die”: The Godfather and Warren Buffett on Reputation
• 8 The Hazards of Lumpy Risk: How Arthur Andersen Met Its End

PART III: RUNNING AN ETHICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE REAL WORLD

• 9 Organizational Design: The Who and What of Accountability
• 10 Process Control: The How of Accountability
• 11 Culture: The Why of Accountability
• 12 Crises and Cross-Fires: Weathering the Storm

Conclusion: We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us

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