Academic Chair to Explore Business Ethics

Workplace Principles: The malfeasance of top executives in recent years has sparked debate about how a capitalistic society can best guard against a repeat of such scurrilous activities. The University of Wyoming is tackling this issue academically, creating a chair in business ethics. The Daniels Fund of Denver is endowing the chair with a $3 million grant, to be matched with $3 million in public money provided by the state of Wyoming. Creating the high-profile ethics professorship enables the university’s College of Business to “further integrate business ethics concepts throughout the curriculum,” including opportunities for “students to interact with business executives to better understand the ethical expectations and issues faced in the real world,” according to a joint statement. Named for late cable television pioneer Bill Daniels, it will help spawn a “new generation of professionals committed to principle-based ethics in the workplace.”