Attention ALL Fordham University Undergraduate Students:
We invite you to participate in the

2024 Fordham University Undergraduate Business Ethics Case Competition!

Sponsored by the Gabelli School of Business, the purpose of the Business Ethics Case Competition is to encourage student teams to consider how business, legal, and ethical elements interplay and align when applied to a current issue.

Cash prizes for best papers and presentations:
Winning Team: $750 PLUS represent Fordham University at the 27^th International Business Ethics Case Competition, being held April 17-19, 2024. Learn more here! 
First Runner-Up: $250

About the Case Competition:

– Each team must consist of 3 to 5 undergraduate students from any school at Fordham University.
– Teams will submit a brief case outline and, if selected for the finals, a presentation of their case analysis.
– All cases should raise questions and issues related to ethics, business, and law.
– Case topics used for prior class projects may be submitted (with consent of all original members).

Teams are encouraged to register by February 23, 2024.
To register, click HERE.  You can also access the registration form via this link, bit.ly/2024BECCRegistration or this QR code:

Based on a review of the case outline submissions, finalist teams will be selected and notified. Finalist teams must then produce and submit their presentations by March 5, 2024.

The Business Ethics Case Competition will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 3:00 p.m in Keating 1st.  

Topic Guidelines

By February 23, Teams registering for the Business Ethics Case Competition must submit an outline that answers the following questions:

1) What is your decision-point (What should s/he do? It should be a moral dilemma about business.)
2) Who is the decision-maker? (Who is in charge of this decision? The decision-maker should be the managers/executives of a company)
3) What is the point in time? (It may be an ongoing case or something that happened in the past and is described by the students in present tense.)

Case Outline Guidelines

The outline of your case analysis should be 1-2 pages in length, focused on the problem you will discuss and highlighting the ethical, economic, and legal elements of the decision.

The outline should clearly identify a decision-point (say, whether the company should recall a product), explain why the decision is morally relevant (say, whether the decision is justified on grounds of social welfare, consumer rights, etc.), describe the alternative courses of action (say, to recall or not to recall), and state your team’s position about which alternative course should be adopted by your decision maker (say, it should not recall because the evidence in support of the allegations that the product is defective is weak and unreliable).

Your outline should also list the material you will use to research your case study (any citation style works).

Presentation Guidelines

If selected for the finals, each group selected will present its case analysis for 10 minutes. There will be questions and answers after each 10-minute presentation. Group presentations will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
– Creativity
– Appropriate use of evidence
– Organization and structuring of the material
– Clarity and effective use of visual aids
– Description of Alternatives
– Appropriate use of ethical, legal, and business theories to analyze and provide recommendations

Cash prizes for best presentations:

Winning Team: $750, PLUS represent Fordham University at the 27th International Business Ethics Case Competition, being held April 17-19 at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Mount Ida Campus. Learn more here!

First Runner-Up: $250

Good luck to all, we look forward to reviewing your case outlines!