Rethinking Business: Teaching Ethics And Impact From Day One

About this episode

Professor Aimee Barbeau discusses how to teach business ethics and real-world impact to first-year students.

In this faculty spotlight, Professor Aimee Barbeau of Gies College of Business explains how she introduces first-year students to business through ethics, experiential learning, and real-world impact projects. She challenges common misconceptions about capitalism by framing business as a value-creating, ethical practice and shows how tools like AI and hands-on corporate partnerships help students build practical skills and rethink the role of business in society.

People in this episode

Guest: Aimee Barbeau

Topics covered

• business ethics
• experiential learning
• capitalism
• real-world impact
• AI in business
• value creation

Keywords

• business ethics
• experiential learning
• capitalism
• AI
• real-world projects
• value creation
• Gies College

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gies College of Business

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