Winners Announced at the Annual National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition
LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2008 – The McGill University student team from Canada won the Emmons Award at Loyola Marymount University’s Annual National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition on April 12.
The top honor was based on McGill students’ research about Rio Tinto Alcan, an aluminum company in Canada. McGill University students also took home the Simone de Beauvoir Essay Award and the Carol and Stanley Botts Essay Award. The McGill University team will be invited to give its presentation at the annual meeting of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) this September in Orlando, Florida.
The runners-up, who earned the Kerrigan Award, were Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Montgomery Community College, St. Joseph’s University and the University of San Francisco. Dartmouth College won the Meggitt Award.
The winners were selected by a panel of judges that included LMU faculty and business professionals, primarily from Southern California, but also ten others from across the U.S.
More than 30 schools competed and three international universities, McGill University, Canada, Central European University Business School, Hungary and Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Other national schools included UCLA, Fairfield University, United States Military Academy, Villanova University, University of Arizona, New York University and University of San Francisco, among many others. Major sponsors of the competition include Raytheon, Meggitt PLC, Wells Fargo Foothill and Booz Allen Hamilton.