Dr. Nunziato's research examines how marketplace exchanges mediate human goods like intimacy, solidarity, justice, and flourishing that cannot, themselves, be bought or sold. For instance, his first book (Cambridge University Press: 2020) considers how sacrifice—enacted through marketplace transactions—either serves or undermines the common good. He has argued in Business Ethics Quarterly (2019) that business exchanges catalyze moral self-development. In various other articles—now under review or in development—Nunziato tackles a wide range of management and consumer behavior topics ranging from sex work to psychedelics and whistleblowing to pop music. Each topic provides a different lens onto the question of how human values irreducible to marketplace value are nevertheless mediated through exchange. Ultimately, acknowledging such mediation is vital for creating a more sustainable world.
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sustainability, social impact, ESG, corporate social responsibility
BCOR 1015 - The World of Business
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Spring 2021
Provides an overview of the nature business in a global economy. In addition to exploring the economic, governmental, social and environmental context in which businesses operate, students will discover how business creates value and takes advantage of opportunities and challenges. Using examples, cases and projects, students will learn about the business functions in an integrated format. Weekly discussion of current events will focus on entrepreneurship, ethics, international business, business and society, and other topics.
BCOR 2302 - Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
Throughout this course students will consider the interconnectedness of law, ethics, values, public policy and regulation. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of individual and organizational responsibility for business. Allows students to consider the relationship between business and ethics in the broader social context, which is necessary to successfully navigate an increasingly complex, global business environment. Duplicate degree credit not granted for BCOR 3010, BCOR 2003.
CESR 3040 - Fundamentals of Socially Responsible Leadership
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Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Designed to build on the learning from MGMT 3030 and the rest of the management track curriculum, while adding more depth and breadth around the context managers operate within. Techniques used by current business leaders and seminal leadership scholars to prepare students to handle various leadership situations will be explored. Students will engage in oral and written presentations. Same as ORGN 3040.
CESR 4850 - The Sustainable Firm: ESG Strategies and Practice
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Explores the growing global trend of companies to measure, disclose and report for socially responsible initiatives. Integrated reporting combines financial, environmental, social and governance information into a single report. Current practices in sustainability and integrated reporting in the US and across the world will be examined through case studies, guest speakers, current literature and projects. Formerly CESR 4827.
MBAE 6001 - Ethics I
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Focuses upon individual leadership and personal ethics. Students will reflect on how personal values shape their approach to leadership and business decision-making. Students will develop individual decision-making frameworks for use in their careers as they earn increasing responsibility and decision-making authority. Topics covered will include values-driven leadership, stakeholder theory, normative ethics and moral psychology.
MBAE 6002 - Ethics II
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Focuses on the overlap between organizational leadership and business ethics. Students consider the interconnectedness of law, ethics, values, public policy, regulation, and organization leadership/culture, with opportunity to reflect on how organizational and societal values shape our organizational decision-making processes and actions. Topics covered will include Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) issues, corporate governance, public policy (lobbying, collective action, regulation, etc.), and community relations/corporate social responsibility (CSR).
MBAX 6000 - Socially Responsible Enterprise
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Prepares future managers for confronting the truly difficult situations that arise when deploying economic resources, altering the physical environment, and making decisions that affect the lives of investors, employees, community members and other stakeholders. Case-based challenges will be examined in a broad range of contexts, and essential ethical concepts will be explored by drawing on theories from ethics, sociology, economics, political science and philosophy.
ORGN 3040 - Fundamentals of Ethical Leadership
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Designed to build on the learning from ORGN 3030 and the rest of the management track curriculum, while adding more depth and breadth around the context managers operate within. Techniques used by current business leaders and seminal leadership scholars to prepare students to handle various leadership situations will be explored. Students will engage in oral and written presentations. Same as CESR 3040. Formerly MGMT 3040.
PHIL 1500 - Reading, Writing and Reasoning
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Spring 2019
Teaches students how to write argumentative papers. Each seminar will focus narrowly on some controversial topic. For example, one seminar might focus on the existence of God, whereas another might question whether we have free will. In all cases, a significant portion of the course will be devoted to learning how to write cogent argumentative papers about controversial topics.
PHIL 3000 - History of Ancient Philosophy
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Fall 2018
Surveys developments in metaphysics, ethics, logic, and philosophy of mind from the Pre-Socratics through Hellenistic philosophy, focusing primarily on the arguments of the philosophers. Topics may include: Zeno's paradoxes of time and motion; Democritean atomism; Plato on knowledge, reality, ethics, and politics; Aristotle on logic and natural philosophy; Epicurus on pleasure and friendship; Epicurean atomism; the Stoics on materialism, determinism, and vagueness; and the coherence and practicality of global skepticism. Recommended prerequisite: 6 hours of philosophy coursework.
