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The seminar class of ICCI visited National Louis University in Chicago, illinois. The University was fully prepared to meet and greet the students. The main focus highlighted by professors was interaction between students and professors.
The seminar class of ICCI visited National Louis University in Chicago, illinois. The University was fully prepared to meet and greet the students. The main focus highlighted by professors was interaction between students and professors.
The seminar class of ICCI visited National Louis University in Chicago, illinois. The University was fully prepared to meet and greet the students. The main focus highlighted by professors was interaction between students and professors.
Crystal McField International College of the Cayman Islands Seminar on Business and Society
Reflection Paper National Louis University
BE 425 LECTURER: Dr. David Marshall Date: May 18, 2016
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On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, the seminar class of ICCI visited National Luis University in Chicago Illinois. This was the second outing for the day. The university was fully prepared to meet and greet the students. The Dean and Associate Dean along with the admissions team and a few professors were all geared up to introduce and talk about Business and society. National Louis University was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Harrison. The University has 7,500 students, 2000 being full-time adult students who work in the daytime and study at night. The University focuses on excellence, innovation and accessibility through blended classes. Blended classes were defined as a mixture of online and in class sessions. The main focus highlighted by Mr. Michael Fontaine, professor of business and ethics was interaction. The interaction between students and professors is vital to development. The first presenter, James Nowotarski, assistant professor of college management and business based his presentation on Ethical Considerations of Emerging Technologies. Professor Nowotarskis presentation was extremely detailed and innovative, highlighting how large companies use data to capture and target their audience/ customers. His main example of how Target a retail chain used customers information based on items bought in the store to identify pregnant women. They, in turn, developed sales coupons and mailed them out to unsuspecting expectant mothers. It was fascinating to see how we as a society can fall prey to these large corporations without even realizing that we are targeted by them indirectly and directly. Another interesting fact from this presentation was when the professor asked about browsing for weather conditions in your area and surrounding areas. The group was amazed after being told that just by browsing for weather conditions you were being tracked and your data saved in order to send push notifications advertising
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restaurants, shops, and other attractions in the vicinity. This type of advancement in technology not only questions a business ethical practice but also demonstrates unsafe innovation can be. The text for this course, Business and society stakeholders, ethics, and public policy highlights the forces that shape relationships within business. One main force is the explosion of new technology. Technology is one of the most dramatic and powerful forces affecting business and society. New innovations harness the imagination to create machines, processes, and software to address needs, problems, and concerns of society. (Lawrence, A. pg.20) Professor Nowotarski highlighted many disadvantages society faced by the increasing presence of technology. Some of the disadvantages were security breaches, privacy breaches, cyber-crime and displacement of jobs because of technology advancements. But to every disadvantage, there come many advantages. One main advantage of technological innovation is that by the end of 2017 more than seventy percent of companies will have digital transformation as their corporate strategy. The second presenter Professor Michael Fontaine focused his presentation on ethics through fiction. His philosophy is if you add the framework and fiction the end result will be ethical moral behavior. He referred to childhood and how many related to fairytale stories and applied the concept in real life which resulted in the way we thought and deemed mores and values. He highlighted the ENRON scandal, Martha Stewart, and Bill Clinton as examples of people or companies who were accused of unethical behaviors. One major highlight from this visit showed that ethical behavior according to law is different from what many believe in. Our ethics is questionable in a court of law or a corporation
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when it is viewed by others as wrong. Many peoples ethics are defined by their environments, beliefs, and cultures.
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References Lawrence A.T.,& Weber. J.,(2003).Business and Society: Stakeholders, ethics, public policy(14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill