Pop star Ariana Grande brought her Dangerous Woman Tour to Salt Lake City earlier this week, and she showed off some powerful business lessons amid the spectacle of her production. Grande has evolved into one of the world's most iconic brands that is easily recognizable around the world. Some people strive to be her, but the business-minded would be smart to take what she has [...]
Students competed in The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Competition on Friday, Feb. 10, and congratulations are in in order! A team of six outstanding Eccles School students took home the top prize as they applied the ethics they learned from the legacy of business giant Bill Daniels. The competition featured eight teams, and they had to tackle a real-world ethical dilemma in the [...]
The David Eccles School of Business Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative has announced the 13 winners of the Leadership in Ethics Education Awards for the 2015-2016 academic year. "These colleagues were chosen on behalf of the faculty for their successful efforts to create new ethics-related courses, to integrate new business ethics content into existing courses, to mentor students on ethics initiatives, and to help make business ethics [...]
It is easy to be tempted to walk away from ethics when riches are dangled in front of you, Aaron Beam, a felon and former CFO of HealthSouth told students in the Bill and Pat Child Family Community Hall of the SFEBB on Sept. 27. Beam, who spent three months in prison after being convicted of bank fraud after being partly responsible for HealthSouth’s scheme to inflate profit [...]
Nine different companies, nonprofits and government agencies were honored on Sept. 9 for their ethical practices. The Utah Ethical Leadership Awards are hosted by the David Eccles School of Business, the Daniels Fund and the Community Foundation of Utah. Read about the ethics awards in the Deseret News and Utah Business magazine.
The latest Ponzi scheme to strike. Politicians being dishonest about their motivations or voting record. The continued fallout from the housing crisis. There are headlines nearly every day about a company or organization that has made some ethical gaffe that leads to a loss of trust with the public. What the media doesn’t tout are the huge amount of companies, nonprofits and government agencies [...]
In our culture today, ethics is becoming an even more central issue within the business world. Here at the David Eccles School of Business, we take ethics very seriously. The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative has created a program for students to bring ethics into their internships and careers, and help share ethical practices and standards with those companies. Since 2014, 44 students have completed the [...]
Editor's note: Eccles Ambassador Claire Harless gives students advice about how to survive during finals at The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. Finals can be stressful and the temptation to be unethical just to pass a class could arise. Here are the top 5 ethics you should hold on to during finals week at The University of Utah. Integrity: During finals you need [...]
The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business' team took second place in the national Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s fifth annual Consortium Case Competition in Denver on April 14 and 15. The five-member team of Ben Caine, Carly Ho, Paxton Klein, Howard Reeve and Jan Ostusinik competed against nine other teams from around the country. Associate Professor Jeff Nielsen served as the team’s [...]
Our team took second place in the annual Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative competition! Congrats to our team and to the winners from the University of Northern Colorado. You can read the full story in Denver Business Journal here. The University of Northern Colorado Monfort College of Business's team of students took first place at Friday's annual Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative competition, now in its fifth [...]