McCombsToday: Ethics Professor Robert Prentice Wins 'Master Teacher' Award

The McCombs School of Business community already considers Robert Prentice an all-star professor, but now he's also officially a Master Teacher.

On Aug. 8, the director of the Business, Government, and Society department won the Master Teacher Competition at the Academy of Legal Studies (ALSB) annual conference in Boston. For his award-winning presentation, Prentice led a sample class showing how a professor might introduce the subject of behavioral ethics, which attempts to explain why people make ethical—and unethical—decisions. The audience voted for their favorite presentations. "I got the most votes, so apparently there had been a lot of drinking beforehand," Prentice jokes.

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