Corporate Responsibility Spurns New Businesses and Conferences
Corporate ethics crises have turned corporate responsibility into a big business. It's got its own conference, and a directory of companies that provide services to corporate responsibility officers.
The first annual conference for Corporate Responsibility Officers will take place in New York City on November 1.
Featured speakers include: Vice Chair of Citigroup Lewis Kaden, Wall Street Journal Assistant Managing Editor Alan Murray, Bloomberg News Editor Marty Schenker, Def Jam Records and Comedy and Phat Farm Fashions founder Russell Simmons, and 20 other Corporate Responsibility officers telling their success stories.
Politicians and Policy Wonks Attend Ethics Camp. But No S'mores
Politicians have nothing on Ethics Crisis' anonymous ethics confessions. That's why it's refreshing to read that instead of clipboard and whistles, counselors at Ethics and Leadership Camp for politicians and public officials wore "moral compasses" around their necks, in an effort to create "a culture of ethics and accountability," according to Judy Nadler, a former mayor of Santa Clara and a senior fellow at the university's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the host and sponsor.
The New York Times reports that the two dozen or so campers — including local city council members and ethics officers from Texas and Arizona — were "a veritable optimists' club."
Dean J. Chu, a council member from nearby Sunnyvale, chose to go to camp "as a continuing reminder of how you should behave." Mr. Chu added, "Unfortunately, the kind of people attending are not the ones who need to."
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Yes Men Survival Ball Yanks Halliburton's Chain
The Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists pushing a "SurvivaBall", designed to save corporate executives from the effects of global warming, pulled a prank on Halliburton at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida.
The group, which has pulled similar stunts on Dow Chemical Co. and the World Trade Organization, says it presented the phony global-warming-protection suits -- priced at $100 million each, nonetheless -- to show that corporations are more concerned about profits than taking expensive steps to reduce carbon emissions to reduce global warming.
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AASCB Conference: Ethics in Business Schools
Integrity is Everything: Ethics and Governance Conference of the AACSB presents an opportunity to hear, compare and analyze the critical role of ethical practices in today's modern business schools.
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