Aimee Barbeau
Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Educational Background
- PhD, Government, Political Theory, American Government, Methodology, Georgetown University, 2014
- MA, History, University of Tulsa, 2007
- BA, Summa Cum Laude, English Literature and Theological-Historical Studies, Oral Roberts University, 2005
- BS, Summa Cum Laude, Mathematics, Oral Roberts University, 2005
Positions Held
- Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business Administration, University of Illinois, 2018 to present
- Adjunct Faculty, College of Business, University of Illinois, Springfield, 2016-2018
Recent Publications
- Barbeau, A. (2017). Ethics in a Commercial Age: McCloskey, Constant, and Tocqueville on the Bourgeois Virtues. Journal of Private Enterprise, 32 (4), 59-70.
- Barbeau, A. (2017). Religious Voluntarism, Political Individualism, and the Secular: Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Encounters in the Middle East. Middle Eastern Studies, 53 (3), 454-469.
- Barbeau, A. (2016). Deliberative Democracy and Corporate Governance. Business Ethics Journal Review, 4 (6), 34-40.
Other Publications
Book Reviews
- Barbeau, A. (2020). Aimee Barbeau on Timothy Michael’s British Romanticism and Political Reason. ( vol. New Series 55, pp. 81-84). The Coleridge Bulletin, Coleridge Bulletin.
Honors and Awards
- Excellence-in-Undergraduate Teaching Award, Gies Business Alumni Association, 2023
- List of Teachers Rated Outstanding, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2019, 2021-2021, 2021-2021, 2022-2022, 2023-2023
- Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professors Of 2021, Poets and Quants, 2021
- Dean's Impact Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Current Courses
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Ethical Dilemmas of Business (BADM 340) Examines business decision making and the role ethics plays in that process. Analysis of how managers behave and whether ethical choices are knowingly made or only realized thereafter. The object is to increase awareness of the moral dimension of business activity.
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Prof Responsibility & Business (BUS 101) Introduces business students to professional responsibility. Develops the concept of professional responsibility within a personal and interpersonal context. Continues by expanding the concept to encompass the firm and explore the global corporate context. Introduces business majors and career paths and provides an understanding of ethical decision-making. Encourages the development of a professional identity and skills, preparing students to represent the College and the University with integrity and confidence in their careers.
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Principles Prof Responsibility (BUS 302) Examines in depth a number of the multi-dimensional attributes required to advance understanding of professional responsibility in the context of an ever-changing business environment, focusing on principles for addressing dilemmas that regularly arise in professional life in the work of business. Explores connections between academic integrity while in school and professional responsibility in later work life. Builds on BUS 101 and provides a breadth and depth of that body of knowledge that will enable highly successful students in BUS 302 to be considered for the role of section leaders in BUS 101. Aspiring section leaders in BUS 101 must have excelled in BUS to be considered for the position.
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