McCombs TODAY

McCombs Business Honors students Eric Sung and Jeffrey Siegel won third place in the Seventh Annual Eller Ethics Case Competition held Oct. 22-24.

The competition, hosted by the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, presents pairs of business students from around the world with a business ethics case that they could face in their careers. The students are instructed to consider ethical issues from the viewpoints of different stakeholders and make final recommendations regarding the case.

This year’s case revolved around a fictional automobile company based in India that has produced the lowest priced vehicle in the world.

Students were asked to consider, among other things, the advantages the new vehicle has for helping lower socio-economic groups find both mobility and a way out of poverty, and the accompanying costs of millions of new cars consuming petroleum reserves and adding to air pollution and global climate problems.

Elon University took first place. Teams from the University of Southern California and Georgetown University took second and fourth place, respectively.