THE NEW YORK TIMES: Business Profs Rethinking Ethics Classes: “The four picked through the cases of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and Shell”.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 16, 2006
Filed at 3:08 p.m. ET
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Last fall, Bentley College management professor Tony Buono taught a class on corporate scandals with colleagues pitching in from finance, accounting and even the philosophy department. The four picked through the cases of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and Shell.
At the end of the semester, the number of students in a simulated trading room who were caught in misconduct or misusing information for insider trading was significantly higher than at the beginning. The students said, ”You taught us how to do it,” Buono recalled.