July 10 - 11, 2007 Hyatt Regency Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia  USA

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This enlightening event will bring together business leaders, management educators, and policy makers. You will discuss issues related to business ethics, ethical behavior, international ethics and governance, and the integration of ethics in business school curricula.

Who should attend: Deans, associate deans, faculty, department chairs, and corporate executives.

Conference Chairperson:

• Joseph A. DiAngelo, dean, Erivan K. Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University

Featured Speakers:

Joseph V. Carcello is the co-founder and Director of Research at the University of Tennessee's Corporate Governance Center and he is the Ernst & Young Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management. He was named by Business Finance magazine as one of the "most influential" individuals in accounting and finance in each year from 2004 through 2007 and was named by BusinessWeek as a "prominent faculty" in its 2006 ranking of undergraduate business programs. Among the topics presented by Dr. Carcello will be the recent developments in corporate governance, including shareholder access to the proxy, majority voting requirements, executive compensation disclosure and “say on pay”, revisions to SOX Section 404. In addition, the need to integrate governance topics in business school curricula and faculty research agendas will be discussed.

 

Cynthia Cooper was named one of Time Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the WorldCom fraud. Ms. Cooper was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame, and is the first woman to receive this distinction. Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Ms. Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women’s Economic Round Table. She also is the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award. Ms. Cooper will share her team's experience in uncovering the largest fraud in corporate history. In addition, she will discuss the importance of ethical decision making and the challenges each of us face in carrying out our individual responsibilities in this era of increased focus on corporate integrity.
 

Laura Hartman, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies, Department of Management at DePaul University and a member of AACSB’s Ethics Education Task Force. Hartman has received DePaul University's Excellence in Teaching Award, and serves as Research Director of DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. During this extremely interactive session, she will challenge participants  to explore the goals we each create for our courses and for our students. As stakeholders, we have begun to demand assessment from those entities in whom we have an interest. We certainly have begun to take corporations to task for a somewhat universal failure to measure and to assess their performance on a variety of social dimensions. But how well do we measure up? How do we check to see whether we have accomplished the learning goals that we establish in our business ethics courses or business degree programs? The first step in creating an effective learning assessment structure involves the development of realistic, achievable learning goals followed by ongoing integration, reinforcement, and assessment mechanisms.

Jack Ward recently has retired as Chairman and CEO of Russell Corporation, a major international public corporation. During his eight years as CEO, he transformed Russell from a primarily domestic activewear company to a global sporting goods company with brands such as Spalding, Russell Athletic, Jerzees, Bike Athletic, Huffy Sports, Brooks Athletic Shoes, and more. His background is unique, as in addition to his extensive management background, he also has been an executive-in-residence in ethics at two leading business schools. Among the topics he will discuss will be the corporate responsibility to improve the world in which we live. He also will talk about the challenges principled leaders face in this global economy as they try to operate ethically around the world.
 

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	Hankamer School of Business Baylor University
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