News Source: UConn Today
Author: Claire Hall

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to remove numerical results from the first round of the NECC competition.

Two teams of UConn MBA candidates are among an elite group of students advancing in the highly competitive National Ethics Case Competition.

The teams—that tackled ethics in the pharmaceutical industry and in artificial intelligence—are among a fraction of the entrants to advance to Round 2 in the competition.

“This project was very ambitious for them. They all have important jobs with big responsibilities in defense, hospital tech, administration and more,’’ said business law professor Stephen Hudspeth, who encouraged his graduate students to participate.

“The UConn School of Business is heavily committed to ethics. As a school we care about it enormously. We think our students should be well prepared to address a competition like this,’’ he said.

In Round One, the teams had to create a trade association focused on ethical principles, define its scope and objectives, and compare how their guidance would relate to a profit-maximization strategy.

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