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Course: ENTR 367 | Ethics of Entrepreneurship
University: University of Delaware / Horn Entrepreneurship
Instructor: Johann Ducharme, Ph.D.
Excerpt from syllabus
What does it mean to be a good entrepreneur in an age of disruption, speed, and scale? This course explores the ethical challenges faced by founders and entrepreneurial teams—from exaggerating a pitch to misusing customer data or automating bias in AI. Blending traditional ethical frameworks (virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontology) with emerging insights from entrepreneurial practice and generative AI, we will examine what responsible innovation looks like. Students will explore how character is formed in startups, how to navigate power and pressure ethically in team dynamics, and how to develop their own virtue-infused decision-making philosophy as an aspiring founder. The course features team-based projects, reflective journaling with AI, and hands-on engagement with ethical tools, case studies, and technologies shaping our future.
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Course format: The course uses a seminar, cumulative format that is discussion-based. A substantive portion of the grade is based on participation and reflections.
Virtues integrated: Courage, Honesty, Humility
Course: ENTR 367 | Ethics of Entrepreneurship
University: University of Delaware / Horn Entrepreneurship
Instructor: Johann Ducharme, Ph.D.
Excerpt from syllabus
What does it mean to be a good entrepreneur in an age of disruption, speed, and scale? This course explores the ethical challenges faced by founders and entrepreneurial teams—from exaggerating a pitch to misusing customer data or automating bias in AI. Blending traditional ethical frameworks (virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontology) with emerging insights from entrepreneurial practice and generative AI, we will examine what responsible innovation looks like. Students will explore how character is formed in startups, how to navigate power and pressure ethically in team dynamics, and how to develop their own virtue-infused decision-making philosophy as an aspiring founder. The course features team-based projects, reflective journaling with AI, and hands-on engagement with ethical tools, case studies, and technologies shaping our future.
About
Course format: The course uses a seminar, cumulative format that is discussion-based. A substantive portion of the grade is based on participation and reflections.
Virtues integrated: Courage, Honesty, Humility