This page provides links to current (marked as "available courses") and past online courses (marked as "inactive course"). They have given me a lot of insight into my professional, academic, and personal life. I also added some of my favorite videos that I use in my lectures. I updated the list in June 2022. If you can no longer find them online, browse the web. It's definitely worth looking at them...
Governance & EthicsAvailable Online Courses (MOOC)Justice
Harvard University - Michael Sandel Thaught by lauded Harvard professor Michael Sandel, Justice explores critical analysis of classical and contemporary theories of justice, including discussion of present-day applications. > Link: edX | highly recommended Unethical Decision Making in Organizations
HEC University of Lausanne - Guido Palazzo, Ulrich Hoffrage Why do human beings act in an illegal and unethical way? Why and under what conditions do we become evil? > Link: Coursera | highly recommended Moralities of Everyday Life
Yale University - Paul Bloom Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives. > Link: Coursera | highly recommended Effective Altruism
Princeton University - Peter Singer Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good one can. This course examines this idea's philosophical underpinnings. > Link: Coursera The Ethics of Memory
Brown University - Ravit Reichmann Learn how our personal and collective memories evolve over time, and why memory and memorializing matter. Why do different groups of people interpret the same event differently — even when the facts are not disputed? > Link: edX VideosThe Trolly Problem
Is sacrificing one life to save the lives of many others the best possible outcome? Narrated by Harry Shearer. Scripted by Nigel Warburton. > Link: YouTube | highly recommended Our Buggy Moral Code
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp. > Link: TED The Life You Can Save
Is there an important difference between a child drowning in front of you and one dying in a far off land? The philosopher Peter Singer thinks not. He acknowledges that we have biases that lead us to favour those near us over those further away, but argues these are irrational. > Link: YouTube Can Prejudice Ever Be a Good Thing?
We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance. But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, prejudice is often natural, rational ... even moral. > Link: TED Values and Ethics: Case Studies in Action
Learn about some of the most common company values and discover the ways real-world circumstances sometimes cause them to conflict in a course designed to help you recognize, articulate, and solidify your understanding of your own company's values and ethics. > Link: in LEARNING Compliance Topics
Available Online Courses (MOOC)Effective Compliance Programs
Penn University of Pennsylvania - Lauren Steinfeld This course explores one of the key factors for creating a positive culture of compliance: human psychology. What drives us, what makes us pay attention, what distracts, and how all of these pieces help build a strong belief in an organizational culture... > Link: Coursera Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
West Virginia University - Richard Riley Everyday across the world, thousands of businesses are victimized by fraud. Who commits these bad acts? Why? And, how? > Link: Coursera Corruption
Wharton University of Pennsylvania - Philip Nichols The course explains what corruption is, what causes corruption, the effects of corruption, and how to control corruption. > Link: Coursera Cybersecurity and the X-Factor
University System of Georgia - Humayun Zafar What is the X-Factor? In Cybersecurity, the X-Factor related to unknown and unpredictable human behavior within and outside of your organization. > Link: Coursera VideosThe Truth About Dishonesty
Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world's leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment. > Link: YouTube | highly recommended How People Rationalize Fraud
If you ask people whether they think stealing is wrong, most of them would answer yes. And yet, in 2013, organizations all over the world lost an estimated total of $3.7 trillion to fraud. > Link: YouTube Corruption Perceptions Index 2021
Every year, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index. The 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals that corruption levels are at a worldwide standstill. > Link: YouTube |
Management & Decision Making
Available Online Courses (MOOC)Why Smart Executives Fail: Common Mistakes
Tuck Executive Education - Sydney Finkelstein We don’t often talk about mistakes and failures, but there’s so much to learn from what goes wrong. In this course real-life examples of smart executives who failed are examined. > Link: Coursera | highly recommended Critical Perspectives on Management
IE Business School in Madrid - Rolf Strom-Olsen A critical focus how we think about the function and culture of management, how managers understand their role, how they take decisions, set priorities and benchmark success and failure. > Link: Coursera | highly recommended Philosophy and Critical Thinking
University of Queensland - Deborah Brown, Peter Ellerton This course introduces principles of philosophical inquiry and critical thinking that will help us answer this question. Learn how we can use philosophical ideas to think about ourselves and the world around us. > Link: edX Behavioural Economics in Action
University of Toronto - Dilip Soman Learn to use principles and methods of behavioural economics to change behaviours, improve welfare and make better products and policy. > Link: edX VideosThe Asch Experiment
The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies published in the 1950s that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups. These are also known as the "Asch Paradigm". > Link: YouTube | highly recommended Why You Think You're Right - Even if You're Wrong
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs - or a scout, spurred by curiosity? > Link: TED Dan Ariely on Making Decisions
How do you make a decision when the stakes are high, when someone will be negatively impacted, when there’s too much or too little information, or when you need to involve your whole team in the decision-making process? > Link: in LEARNING Inactive Online CoursesA Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior (2014)
Duke University - Dan Ariely Introduction to the range of cases where people (consumers, investors, managers, friends, significant others, and even you) might make decisions that are inconsistent with standard economic theory and the assumptions of rational decision making. Part of it can be still found online... > Link: Quora | highly recommended Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions (2017)
Higher School of Economics - Vasily Klucharev Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the aim of creating a single, general theory of human decision-making. > Link: Coursera |
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