Eleventh Annual Isenberg Ethics Competition
9:30 am – 6:30 pm
A Business Consulting Case Competition with a Focus on Ethics
Schedule
9:30-10:15 am. Registration/Check-In, Alfond Atrium
- Networking Breakfast with Students, Young Alumni, and Faculty
10:15-10:25 am. Opening Remarks and Introduction, Isenberg 108
- Emily Heaphy, Chair, Professor, Management Department
- Jennifer Merton, Director of the Isenberg Ethics Competition, Associate Chair and Director of the Business Law Program, Senior Lecturer II, Management Department
10:25-11:30 a.m. Keynote Address/Faculty & Alumni Panel: Addiction Concerns, Surges in College-Age Gambling, and the Rise of Prediction Markets: Ethical and Legal Challenges for DraftKings
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11:30 am-12 p.m. Questions from the audience
12:00-12:45 p.m. Networking lunch with students, young alumni, and faculty, Alfond Atrium
12:45-1:00 p.m. Transition to the competition, which will comprise the following elements:
- 20-25 minutes for each presentation
- 10 minutes for questions from the judges
- 5-10 minutes for feedback to the team
- 5 minutes for judges to rate the team
1:00-5:30 p.m. Case Competition
- 1:00-1:45 pm: Team A
- 1:45-2:30 pm: Team B
- 2:30-3:15 pm: Team C
- 3:15-3:25 pm: Break
- 3:25-4:10 pm: Team D
- 4:10-4:55 pm: Team E
- 4:55-5:40 pm: Team F
- Undergraduate Competitive Division
- Graduate Competitive Division
- Open Division
- UMass System Schools and Community Colleges Division
- Judges: TBA
6:00-6:30 pm. Awards and Closing Remarks
- Jennifer Merton, Director of the Isenberg Ethics Competition, Associate Chair and Director of the Business Law Program, Senior Lecturer II, Management Department
- Remarks from the Alumni and Faculty Judges and Announcement of the top teams in the Competition who will be invited to join the Isenberg Ethics Team and to represent Isenberg at External Competitions along with other division awards
7:00 pm: Gathering for alumni judges and selected faculty and students (including the competitors and volunteers). Location TBD.
In addition to our alumni panelists, the following alumni will be serving as judges and/or providing feedback to teams:
TBD