COURSE DESCRIPTION Every day at every business, decisions are made that affect the well-being of all involved: consumers, employees, shareholders, business partners, and the wider society in which business operates. As the consumers, employees, shareholders, and general public are affected, we are naturally inclined to step back and judge those decisions. At its essence, business ethics is a systematic version of this process of stepping back to evaluate those business decisions: Were they the right decisions? Wrong? Were they responsible? Who is to be held accountable? What harms were done? What good was accomplished? What decisions should be avoided? Which decisions should be emulated?