Readings | Ethical Practice: Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation | Sloan School of Management

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
Course Introduction
1	Wealth, values, and human nature	Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by J. C. A. Gaskin. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 82-89. ISBN: 9780192834980. Locke, John. "Of Property." Chapter 5 in The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2002, pp. 12-17 and 22-23. ISBN: 9780486424644.
Personal and Professional Practice
2	The reality	Badaracco, Joseph, and Jerry Useem. "Kathryn McNeil (A and B)." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-394-111 and 9-394-112, February 10, 1994.
3	A question of character	Werhane, Patricia H. "A Note on Moral Imagination." Darden Business School Case. Charlottesville, VA: Darden Business Publishing. Case: UVA-E-0114, January 22, 1997. Badaracco, Joseph. "The Discipline of Building Character." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 2 (1998): 115-124.
4	Commitments	Khurana, Rakesh, and Nitin Nohria. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (2008): 70-77.
5	Reports from the field: Professional panel discussion	Pinker, Steven. "The Moral Instinct." New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2008.
Corporate Social Responsibility
6	Definitions and strategies	Elias, Jaan, and J. Gregory Dees. "The Normative Foundations of Business." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-897-012, June 10, 1997. Paine, Lynn Sharp. "Leading for Integrity: Corporate Purpose and Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-396-201, January 24, 1994.
7	Clash of values	Moss, David, and Anna Harrington. "Inequality and Globalization." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-705-040, May 6, 2005. Kyi, Aung San Suu. "Empowerment for a Culture of Peace and Development." Address to World Congress on Communication for Development, Manila, Philippines, November 21, 1994.
8	Constructing the global marketplace	Abrami, Regina. "Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case 9-793-034, March 31, 2003.
9	Corporate culture and individual responsibility	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, directed by Alex Gibney, 2005. Bakan, Joel. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. New York, NY: The Free Press, 2004, pp. 56-59. ISBN: 9780743247443. Schelling, Thomas C. "The Marketplace Is No Excuse." In Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 53-56. ISBN: 9780674127715.
The Purpose of a Corporation
10	Beginnings	Plato. The Republic. Translated by Desmond Lee. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987, pp. 55-61. ISBN: 9780140440485. Aristotle. Chapter 1.9-1.10 in The Politics. Translated by Ernest Barker. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 24-30. ISBN: 9780192831095.
11	A new corporate life?	Frank, Robert. "What Price the Moral High Ground?" Chapter 5 in What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 71-91. ISBN: 9780691006727. Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. "Once Upon a Planet." Chapter 15 in Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1999, pp. 309-322. ISBN: 9780316353168.
12	A critique of capital	De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America, Volume 2. Edited by Phillips Bradley. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966, pp. 98-99 and 102-110. Handy, Charles. "Tocqueville Revisited: The Meaning of American Prosperity." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 1 (2001): 57-63. Yunus, Muhammad. "Commencement Address." Address at MIT Commencement, Cambridge, MA, June 6, 2008.
Conclusions
13	Next steps	Thoreau, H. D. "Economy." In Walden. New York, NY: Penguin, 1983, pp. 45-64 and 112-123. ISBN: 9780140390445.