Business Ethics Professor Reeley   Week 2 – Discussion Hacking Into Harvard   Read Case 2

Business Ethics

Professor Reeley

Week 2 – Discussion

Hacking Into Harvard

Read Case 2.1: Hacking into Harvard, located on page 71 in your textbook. As applicants began to defend themselves against the penalties handed out by the business schools, they appealed to both consequentialist and no consequentialist criteria to support their actions. Some responded by pointing out that their intentions were never malicious, while others argued they did not think checking their application statuses would cause any real harm. Review the case study and analyze the actions of the students from a Kantian perspective. Consider whether the actions taken by the hackers were permissible according the standard of universal acceptability.