Undergraduate students from Dartmouth College earned first place, winning the Emmons Prize, in the 9th annual National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition. The team won the final Dartmouth College Business Ethics Teamround that was the culmination of Business Ethics Fortnight, a three-week program organized by Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Ethics and Business, ending April 21.

Thirty-seven teams from across the U.S., Canada and Turkey converged on the LMU campus to make presentations that analyzed the legal, financial and ethical dimensions of contemporary issues in business ethics. Presentations, judged by business executives from different parts of the country, were evaluated on the team’s ability to demonstrate how companies can operate both profitably and ethically.

This year’s winning team, Dartmouth, dealt with Hewlett-Packard’s recent scandal in which the Palo Alto company spied on its directors and reporters. Students offered practical recommendations for improvements in the company’s corporate governance that would prevent similar problems.

The undergraduate divisional champions were Dartmouth College and McGill University, and the graduate divisional champions were Duquesne University and LMU. The four teams faced off in a final round on Saturday evening, April 21.

Business Ethics Fortnight also includes the LMU Run for the Bay, a 5/10K run that benefits the environmental organization Heal the Bay in Santa Monica. The run is also the second half of “L.A.’s Weirdest Biathlon,” an optional academic/athletic competition open to students in the presentation competition.

Coach Roy Benson, one of the country’s premier experts in heart-rate training, initiated the countdown for the run.