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Tag: Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethics Framework
Bill McCoy
Bill McCoy is a believer. As the director of the Building Ethical Leaders Using an Integrated Ethics Framework (BELIEF) Program in the NIU College of Business, he knows the importance of ethics and spends each day ensuring that NIU is building a future generation of ethical leaders. “We are not only giving students the tools...
NIU President Doug Baker
“Ethically Inspired Leadership.” The words are familiar words to anyone on the NIU campus as one of President Doug Baker’s pillars of Student Career Success, but their meaning might seem unclear to those outside the university community. Such was the case for a corporate executive booked to speak at the annual BELIEF Week in the...
Joan Dubinsky
NIU’s College of Business hosts the fifth annual Building Ethical Leaders Using an Integrated Ethics Framework (BELIEF) Week, which takes place through Friday, Oct. 9. Throughout the five-day event, notable alumni and corporate partners from a variety of industries will speak to NIU business students about best business practices and ethics awareness. “BELIEF Week is...
Photo of the word “Ethics” on a road sign
NIU’s College of Business will host its fourth annual ethics education event, now called “BELIEF Week, ” during the week of Oct. 6. This event is five days of events and activities on campus geared at building ethical awareness. Many alumni and corporate representatives will come to campus as guest speakers during the week to...
Douglas D. Baker
Many college students encounter situations in which they need to make ethical decisions. Often, these situations prompt consideration on what makes a decision ethical. NIU President Doug Baker addressed this question Feb. 27 when he discussed ethical decision making in higher education with honors students. Baker was a guest speaker at the Ethical Leadership Workshop...
Julie A. Lagacy
Julie A. Lagacy, vice president for the Finance Services Division at heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, will be the keynote speaker for the NIU College of Business BELIEF Week. Lagacy will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Barsema Auditorium of the NIU College of Business. BELIEF (Building Ethical Leaders Using an Integrated Ethics...
Denise Schoenbachler and William McCoy
The Northern Illinois University College of Business has again been recognized as among the best in the nation at providing students with a strong foundation in ethics. NIU ranked third in Bloomberg Businessweek’s listing of best undergraduate business schools in the nation for teaching ethics. NIU has placed among the top three on the list...
Pam Smith
Accountancy Professor Pam Smith will present a talk, “Building Ethical Leaders,” as part of the Board of Trustees Professorship Lecture Series. Smith’s talk begins at 11:30 a.m. Monday, April 22, in the Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center. Her comments will focus on how faculty can help students to recognize ethical challenges and make...
William McCoy
Why do good people sometimes make bad decisions? Often it is because they are thrust into a situation where they feel compelled to act in a way that hasn’t been fully thought through. Consequences are not considered.
The NIU College of Business ethics program (BELIEF), in collaboration with John Deere, is hosting a video creation contest for business ethics awareness. Interested NIU students, regardless of major, need to prepare a real or animated video that introduces a business ethical dilemma and solves that dilemma using the BELIEF decision-making framework as described by...
Bloomberg Businesweek: The Best Undergraduate B-Schools 2012 badge
Businessweek magazine again has named the NIU College of Business to its list of top undergraduate business schools in the nation and, for the third consecutive year, placed the school among the elite for integrating ethics across the curriculum. NIU’s business college ranks second in the ethics category, climbing one spot from 2011 and returning...
Issues ranging from the use of social media to sharing confidential information with friends will be in question when the NIU College of Business puts students in the hot seat during its second annual NIU Ethics Case Competition from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 13. Hosted by the BELIEF Initiative (Building Ethical Leaders...
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