Seminar in Business and Society

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Oscar Jerome Stewart

Assistant Professor of Management

Why this course

  • This management course uniquely seeks to dismantle oppressive and exploitative structures and institutions by introducing concepts such as “liberatory consciousness”, and by equipping students to have difficult conversations and make decisions that build equitable and socially just organizations.

  • In this course, Professor Stewart rejects historical norms of business education to help students redefine business "success" while examining the outsized role that business plays in how equal, just and sustainable our economy can be.

 
 


Course Highlights

Learning outcomes are focused on student development of a liberatory consciousness, awakening within our students a greater sense of their place in our world and an ability to make values-based decisions. Students will:

  • Articulate the purpose of business within the context of its ability to deliver inclusive prosperity

  • Demonstrate an ability to think critically, develop morally, and articulate reasoned, informed (i.e. backed up by data) positions on complex and ethical business and legal issues

  • Learn how to debate issues in ways that maintain civility and bring greater clarity and understanding to the various perspectives on an issue

  • Present arguments in a professional and convincing way to hone their written communication skills

  • Present case material in a professional and critical manner to hone their oral communication skills

  • Develop individual, organizational, & systemic strategies toward a more cooperative, responsible business

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Ideas Worth Teaching, an initiative developed by the Business & Society Program within the Aspen Institute, is designed to draw attention to important new ideas about the role of business in creating a sustainable, inclusive society


Biography

Oscar Jerome Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Lam Family College of Business and a member of the Sustainable Business group. Jerome teaches the seminar undergraduate course on Business and Society, the MBA Business Ethics course, and Diversity in Organizations. Jerome’s research focuses on interrogating power at the intersection of organizational theory, strategy, and business ethics. This work includes such projects as an account of corporate strategic irresponsibility as well as an exploration of the determinants and outcomes of corporate misconduct in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, this research agenda includes critical scholarship on organizational diversity and discrimination. Oscar earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Charlotte’s Interdisciplinary Organizational Science Program.