But even she may not have realised the extent to which the organisation was rigging the ‘game’. Against a wall of opposition, McLean persisted in her belief that the company was somehow inflating its value beyond any reasonable – or realistic – price. Enron opens in the style of a conspiracy thriller before introducing us to journalist Bethany McLean, whose ‘Fortune’ article was both the first shot across Enron’s bow and solid evidence that led to its collapse. His skill lay in taking a story and, drawing on mainstream feature-filmmaking practices, creating a riveting narrative that possesses the energy and drive of a high-octane thriller. Here’s a blog post from Chris MacDonald on his five favorite movies to use when teaching business ethics.Enron established Gibney as a leading documentary filmmaker of his generation.of Nebraska-Lincoln uses movies to teach business ethics Guido Palazzo will teach a Coursera course on Unethical Decision Making in Organizations, beginning Sept.Here’s a blog post where he explains the MOOC, with a link to the classes. His lectures do not take a behavioral science perspective, but many of them would be useful early in a course, to help students escape from the shareholder view of business and then share in Freeman’s enthusiasm for the many positive roles businesses now play in society. Ed Freeman at UVA-Darden taught a MOOM on Coursera, titled New Models of Business and Society.MOOCs and Academic Lectures which may be useful John Antonakis and colleagues on power, corruption and testosterone.
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A video series on behavioral ethics from the University of Texas. A documentary about the changing power dynamic for consumers in our global marketplace, where Corruption can be made more transparent, where “ 31oing well is the result of doing good,” and where Ethics Pays all the more.
Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Margin Call (2011). Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the financial crisis.A closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005). A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.Crash (2004). Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Here you will find clips relevant to the various research areas of the Ethical Systems website, as well as original content such as our #EthSys Insights video series. On this page you’ll find links to videos and other multimedia resources that might be useful in teaching courses on designing ethical systems, or courses on ethics that have a behavioral science component.