Professional Responsibility

This course is called "Professional Responsibility." It is about how to conduct yourself in the most professional and honorable way in your career as you strive to create value for others and yourself. The course will be a success, for you and for Stern, if:

1) You learn about the variety of traps that lure businesspeople into ethical lapses and criminal behaviors. These lapses often ruin people’s careers, destroy their companies, and bring shame to their families, their associates, and the business community.

2) You learn enough moral psychology to understand why even well-meaning professionals like you get lured into such traps.

3) You learn about your own values and motives, which can help you avoid such traps.

4) You learn how to design a company or team that will be less subject to disastrous ethical lapses.

5) You commit yourself to a standard of professional conduct that will bring honor to yourself, your company, your family, your associates, and the business community.