Notre Dame, University of Mendoza College of Business

The ultimate goal of education is to prepare every student to make a difference. From the expanding global marketplace to nanotechnology, opportunities abound for business students to claim and shape the future with integrity and purpose. Notre Dame opens its doors widely to exceptional faculty and ground-breaking courses that call students to a higher level of skills, thought and values.

The aim of the business school draws on the University�s mission statement, which reads, in part: �the University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation for the great achievements of human beings but also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice and oppression that burden the lives of so many. The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice.�

Notre Dame�s commitment to educating leaders with purpose is apparent from a student�s first day on campus. The cornerstone event of orientation is the MBA Community Partners program, in which students meet with local business and nonprofit executives. Teams prepare extensive database profiles examining engagement between the sectors. Students initiate collaboration between nonprofits and businesses as vital to the success of both, and learn from business leaders who integrate stewardship into professional life.

Of the nine required courses in the MBA program, seven integrate social impact and stewardship and one is wholly dedicated to ethics and the triple bottom line. Thirty-seven of the 83 total elective courses integrate social responsibility, sustainability and ethics into the curriculum. Courses include �Globalization and Multinational Corporate Responsibility� and �Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability,� among many others. A spring 2005 course entitled �Ten Years Hence� includes a series of eight lectures featuring national experts on economic demography, oil and peace, natural resources, biotechnology, religious fundamentalism, futurism and work, and more. Thirty Mendoza College of Business faculty members are pursuing research in social impact, ethics and environmental impact management. Faculty includes the winner of the Moskowitz Prize, Professor Glen Dowell, for his research indicating that corporate environmental standards create market value. Associate Professor Ann Tenbrunsel oversaw a special issue of the Journal of Business Ethics and researches self-deception and ethical-fading. Associate Professor James Davis publishes on the role of trust in organizations and stewardship theory, and his initial ground-breaking article on trust was cited in more than 300 publications. Associate Professor Elizabeth Moore researches the effects of advertising on children.