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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...
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...
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...
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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...
A pair of NIU business students, Austin Schulte of Dixon and Sam Kunde of Marengo, enjoyed success at the annual Collegiate Ethics Case Competition. The Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona hosted the event from Thursday, Oct. 20, through Saturday, Oct. 22, in Tucson, Ariz. NIU’s duo earned a second place finish...
Bloomberg Businessweek - The Best Undergraduate B-Schools
The NIU College of Business added to its list of accolades this week with the release of more detailed information from the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of business schools. Earlier this year, Bloomberg released the overall results, with NIU placing at number 84 out of more than 600 eligible AACSB-certified business schools. This week a more...
The NIU College of Business fared extremely well in a recent BusinessWeek magazine story citing a 2010 survey of senior-level students across the country ranking how well their business school integrated ethics into the curriculum. An overwhelming majority of NIU business students gave the college’s BELIEF Initiative an “A.” That level of satisfaction ranked second only...
BELIEF (Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethical Framework), NIU’s College of Business ethics program, has provided an ethics framework to thousands of students over the past four years. The impact the program has had on students was evident in Business Week’s 2010 survey of senior level students across the country.  Students in business schools were...
Patrick Kuhse
NIU’s College of Business will celebrate its annual BELIEF Day at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the Barsema Hall auditorium with guest speaker Patrick Kuhse. BELIEF – Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethics Framework – is a training program used by the College of Business to teach students that ethical components exist in all decision-making....
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