University of St. Thomas, Minnesota Earns First Overall Prize at the LMU/ECOA Intercollegiate Ethics Competition

Undergraduate students from University of St. Thomas, Minnesota earned first place, winning the Emmons Prize, in the LMU/ECOA Invitational Awards held Anaheim, September 21-24, 2010. Runner-up, California State University at Long Beach, CA, took home the second place the Kerrigan Prize. Three Divisional Awards were awarded to Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA; and Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

Teams from across the U.S., and Hungary 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, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, dealt with problems associated with Social Media, Free Speech and the Ethical Corporation. Students offered practical recommendations for improvements in the company’s corporate governance that would prevent similar problems.