Huizenga School Professors to Fund Business Ethics and Global Social Responsibility Scholarship

The Huizenga School Business Ethics and Global Social Responsibility Scholarship has been established to support scholarly research by Huizenga School doctoral students that will advance the fields of business ethics and global social responsibility as well as the field of ethics in the public sector.

The scholarship was conceived and created by Frank J. Cavico, J.D., LL.M, Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Huizenga School, and Bahaudin Mujtaba, D.B.A., Associate Professor of International Management at the Huizenga School. Cavico and Mujtaba are co-funding this academic initiative with the support of Huizenga School Dean Randolph A. Pohlman, Ph.D., and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship.

Cavico and Mujtaba, co-authors of Business Ethics: Transcending Requirements Through Moral Leadership (Pearson Publishing 2005), are active researchers and writers in the fields of business ethics and global social responsibility, and teach the M.B.A. course, “The Values of Legality, Morality, and Social Responsibility in Business,” as well as an array of business law, ethics, and management courses. Cavico and Mujtaba are providing funds to this scholarship from the royalties from the sale of the aforementioned business ethics text, which currently is being used by over six different colleges and universities.

The scholarship co-founders anticipate that initially one or two scholarships of approximately $1,000 to $2,000 will be awarded. The scholarship funds can be used at the discretion of the recipient doctoral student for educational expenses directly related to his or her doctoral dissertation research in the fields of business ethics and global social responsibility as well as the field of ethics in the public sector.

Criteria for selection include the following:

1. Status as a Huizenga School doctoral student in the program for a minimum of one year;
2. a GPA to date of at least 3.25 on a 4.0 scale;
3. a plan to do research in a pertinent scholarship area;
4. and a willingness to publish work from the dissertation in academic journals and reviews as well as to present the work at academic conferences.

To apply for the scholarship award, the student will need to prepare a succinct (3-5 page) scholarship research proposal. The Scholarship Proposal must address six key points: 1) description of topic; 2) identification of gaps in the scholarly literature; 3) presentation of proposed research questions; 4) presentation of the research methodology approach, including the sampling or surveying plan; 5) anticipated scholarly contribution; and 6) an initial list of scholarly references. The completed Scholarship Proposal should be submitted to Dr. Russell Abratt, Chair of Doctoral Programs at the Huizenga School (abratt@huizenga.nova.edu), who will convene a scholarship committee, composed of Huizenga School faculty members who teach at the doctoral level, to determine the recipients of the scholarship award. The Scholarship Committee will also ascertain on an annual basis if there are sufficient funds to award scholarship(s).

For further information regarding the Huizenga School Scholarship in Business Ethics and Global Social Responsibility, please contact Dr. Frank Cavico at cavico@huizenga.nova.edu or Dr. Bahaudin Mujtaba at mujtaba@huizenga.nova.edu.

If you would like to contribute to this scholarship fund, please contact Joseph Pineda, Assistant Dean of External Affairs at the Huizenga School, at pinedaj@huizenga.nova.edu.