Week of Aug 24
Class One
Course Introduction
Print and read carefully the course syllabus.

Class Two What is a stakeholder?
Text Ch 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Register for Ethical Lens Activity; Read “What is Ethics”(Niihka)
Complete Ethical Lens Inventory. Bring results to class and submit to Niihka

Week of Aug 31
Class One Owners as stakeholders
Text Ch 14: Stockholder Rights and Corporate Governance
Inland Bank; Cisco (Niihka) Inland Bank and Cisco case assignments (Niihka)

Class Two Owners continued
Living Richly (text, pg. 236); Adelphia (Niihka)
Adelphia case assignment (Niihka) Week of Sept 7
Class One Labor Day – NO CLASS

ClassTwo Forms of business; Intro to Business Processes
“Forms of business” excerpt (Niihka); Ciao Baby Pesto case (Niihka)
Baby Pesto case due

Week of Sep 14
Class One Customers as stakeholders
Text Ch 15: Consumer Protection
Read Guns Excerpt
Odwalla case due

Class Two
Read Chapter 3
Timberland case due

Week of Sept 21
Class One Suppliers as stakeholders
“Intro to Supply Chain Management,” excerpt from Handfield (Niihka)

Class Two Suppliers cases
Beech Nut (Niihka); Ford and Firestone (Niihka)
Ford and Firestone case assignment (Niihka) Week of Sep 28
Class One
First Exam

Class Two The community as stakeholder
Text Chapter 18
Corporate Philanthropy vs. Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Philanthropy and the Arts (text)
Corporate Philanthropy and the Arts case assignment (Niihka) Week of Oct 5
Class One Employees as stakeholders
Text Ch 16: Employees and the Corporation
Text Ch 17: Managing a Diverse Workforce Class Two Employees continued
Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores
No Smoking Allowed case assignment (Niihka) Week of Oct 12
Class One What is Context? Why is it important to understand?
(Niihka) NASA Case Class Two The Stakeholder Model in Practice
What is capitalism? http://history.howstuffworks.com/european -history/capitalism.htm http://money.howstuffworks.com/free-market-economy.htm What is capitalism? assignment (Niihka)
Conscious Capitalism (Niihka) Week of Oct 19
Class One Business Decision Making Model: Economic perspective
Friedman article (Niihka) ; Malden Mills (Niihka)
Malden Mills assignment (Niihka)

Class Two Business Decision Making Model: Economic perspective
Read Freeman(Niihka)
Read Mission Statement paper(Niihka) Week of Oct 26
Class One Business Decision Making Model: Ethical perspective
Inland Bank (Niihka)
Chapter 5
Revisit Inland Bank (Niihka)
Freeman/Friedman assignment (Niihka)

Class Two Business Decision Making Model: Legal perspective
Legal Readings (Niihka)
Ford Pinto assignment (Niihka) Week of Nov 2
Class One EXAM 2

Class Two Globalization
Chapter 6
Nike Sweatshop (Niihka)
Google in China (text)
Friedman “World is Flat” Video
Nike sweatshops case assignment (Niihka) Week of Nov 9
Class One The Environment as a Stakeholder Development in Global Business;
Text Ch 10: Ecology and Sustainable
Friedman’s “The World is Flat” assignment(Niikha)

Class Two The Environment as a Stakeholder
Text Ch 11: Managing Environmental Issues
GE and the Hudson River Clean-up assignment (Niihka) Week of Nov 16
Class One Business Decision Making Model: Putting it all together Moody’s and the Subprime Mortgage
Meltdown case (text); Enron (text)

Class Two
Putting in all together: Multiple Stakeholders, multiple perspectives, multiple processes Teams develop Mission Statement for assigned company
Mattel case assignment (Niikha)
Read “Rethinking Social Responsibility”, “WorldCom” and “Conscious Capitalism” Week of Nov 23
Class One
Present Mission Statements.

Class Two
NO CLASS- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Week of Nov 30
Class One
Present Mission Statements.

Class Two
Course Wrap-up. Final exam will be held during exam week.
Date and time TBD.

In addition you are required to attend the Farmer School of Business Executive Speaker Series. A written assignment is also required for these presentations.