This course addresses the professional intersection where financial theory and practice meet with ethical reflection and standards. On the one hand, high ethical principles and professional standards are essential to well-functioning business practice; on the other hand, making those principles and standards work and turning moral motivation into ethical efficient outcomes is a major challenge in itself. In addition to exploring the main theories of moral philosophy and real-life examples of dilemmas that investment professionals may typically encounter, the course features a general approach to analyze the relationship of ethics and economics in the modern world, which is called “ordonomics”. Based on the ethically relevant features of markets the ethical pros and cons of markets will be discussed transformed into an integrated view beyond any trade-off between ethical and economic requirements. As such it may serve as a clear and principled guideline for professionals.
- Know of the main moral tension fields and ethical approaches related to finance and the market economy in general
- Heighten awareness and understanding of ethical issues in the area of finance and the market economy (understand management as a profession, i.e. including its moral remit in various respects)
- Increase your skills, knowledge and attitudes that will enable you to provide ethically-sound solutions to real-world problems
- Understand how to apply CFA Institute’s Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of Practice
- Gain an informed sense that ethical behavior is in an organization’s as well as your own best interest
- Analyze ethical issues from the point of view of modern market societies and and an ordonomic understanding of human cooperation
This course is part of the prestigious part-time Master in Finance program, conducted in English on Fridays and Saturdays on Campus Westend. It offers a valuable opportunity to network and gain expertise without committing to a full degree program. Upon completion, participants receive a Certificate of Participation. As the number of seats is limited, we recommend to register early. If you're a GBS or Goethe University alum, explore our attractive alumni discount options.
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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Minnameier
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Minnameier has held the Chair of Business Ethics and Business Education at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2011. Prior to this, he held the Chair of Vocational and Business Education at RWTH Aachen University and had been a research assistant at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Prof. Minnameier studied business education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research interests include the development of moral thinking and action in business contexts, an inferential learning theory (logic of learning), an economic theory of morality and institutional ethics (ordonomics).