Your answers should be five sentences (or fewer).
1. According to Kant, why is lying morally wrong?
2. According to consequentialists, why is lying morally wrong?
3. State the “strong” version of the shareholder wealth maximization principle?
4. What is the basis for the shareholder wealth maximization principle (weak or strong)?
5. What is employment at will?
6. Defend employment at will from the moral perspective (both consequential and deontological).
7. What assumptions, if any, do defenders of employment at will make about the labor market?
8. Both the Ford Pinton case and the Guidant Corporation case can be used to support claims about moral rights. Which moral right is at issue in both cases?
9. The same argument can be used to support the claim that insider trading is wrong and that the applicants who “hacked” their way into a portion of the website of the Harvard Business School (and others) in order to determine their admission status were wrong in doing so. What, briefly, is that argument?
10. What argument might be used to show that lying during business negotiations is not morally wrong?
11. Does it follow from the argument in number 10 that lying in the business context is always morally acceptable?
12. Do shareholders have a moral right to dividends? Why or why not?
13. Is advertising intended to create “good will” subject to any limitations, or is it like “playing poker”?
14. Is it morally acceptable for an American corporation to engage in its own foreign policy when operating abroad when the corporation’s private foreign policy is contrary to the official foreign policy of the united States? Why or why not?
15. Do employers have any moral duty to protect their employees from harm on the job? Why or why not?

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