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Ethics and Governance Conference
Principled Leadership in a Competitive World
AGENDA
TUESDAY, July 10
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| 7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. |
Continental
Breakfast
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| 7:30 a.m.–5:00
p.m. |
Registration
/ Information
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| 8:00 a.m.–9:30
a.m. |
Plenary I:
Principled
Leadership: Making Ethical Decisions Under Pressure
One of Time Magazine's 2002 "Persons of the Year" and the first woman
inducted into the AICPA Hall of Fame, Cynthia Cooper was responsible for
discovering and exposing the WorldCom scandal. Hear Cynthia's firsthand
account of her team's experience uncovering the biggest corporate fraud
case in American history. Cynthia also will talk about how we, as
individuals, can make ethical choices when faced with difficult
decisions under pressure.
- Cynthia Cooper, president,
Cynthia Cooper Consulting, LLC
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| 9:30 a.m.–10:00
a.m. |
Refreshment
Break
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| 10:00
a.m.–11:30 a.m. |
Concurrent
Sessions (A1)
Teaching Ethics through
Experiential Learning
Developmental theory informs us that learning requires reflection on
one’s interaction with one’s world. Experiential learning must be part
of an effective learning process, particularly when change in attitude
and resulting behavior is sought. In ethics, this experiential learning
can take the form of role-play, ethical dilemmas, interactive cases, and
case competitions. This session provides examples and know-how of
ethical dilemmas, and presents the value of in-class and
extra-curricular case competitions.
- Anne Grinols,
assistant dean for faculty development and college initiatives,
Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University
- Mitchell J.
Neubert,
Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business, Hankamer School of
Business, Baylor University
(A2) Creating and Fostering an
Ethical Culture
This session will
focus on launching: (1) a student board and oath, (2) college-wide
adoption of Turnitin.com, (3) the development of the college’s first
business ethics course, (4) an ethics case competition that has grown to
international stature, and (5) external alliances (e.g., Kids with
Character and Better Business Bureau) which provides undergraduate
business students with opportunities for service learning. Participants
will learn effective strategies to raise awareness about academic
integrity and business ethics among undergraduate business students, as
well as identify opportunities and obstacles associated with starting
and sustaining an ethics program.
- Patrick Kuhse,
consultant and ethics fellow, University of Arizona
- Paul Melendez, lecturer and
director of the Ethics and Honors Program, Eller College of
Management, University of Arizona
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| 11:30 a.m.–1:00
p.m. |
Luncheon and
Plenary II:
Teaching Business Ethics: Assessing What We Say We’re
Going to Do
During
this extremely interactive, uniquely structured plenary luncheon
session, Professor Laura Hartman, a member of AACSB’s Ethics Education
Task Force, will challenge participants to explore the goals we each
create for our courses and for our students. We will examine the role
that assessment can play in both a responsive model (allowing us to
react to past student performance) as well as a progressive guidepost
(assisting us to enhance future development). We will use participants’
actual course objectives in order to create pragmatic, realistic,
practical means by which to assess their achievement and to demonstrate
student learning, both to strive toward satisfaction of AACSB standards
as well as to become more effective in our own evaluation of student
work.
- Laura Hartman, associate vice
president, Academic Affairs, and professor of business ethics and
legal studies, College of Commerce, DePaul University
Sponsored By:
Hankamer
School
of Business
Baylor
University
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| 1:00 p.m.–2:30
p.m. |
Concurrent
Sessions (B1)
Corporate Governance: Do
Financial Structure and the Legal System of a Country Matter?
Corporate frauds and breach of investor trust by senior executives has
led to increased focus on governance and ethics. While countries across
the globe are contemplating the enactment of Sarbanes-like legislation
to contain corporate malfeasance, boards of directors are rushing to
voluntarily adopt U.S.-like corporate governance mechanisms to ensure
that they do not suffer the fate of companies like Enron and WorldCom.
However, this increased accountability comes at a cost and many are
starting to question whether there is any direct relationship between
firm-level corporate governance and a firm’s financial or market
performance. In their research study, the presenters of this session
examine this nexus by incorporating in the analysis a country’s
financial structure and legal system. They will report on the study’s
finding and discuss their practical implications.
- Anne
Anderson,
assistant professor of finance, College of Business
and Economics, Lehigh University
- Parveen P.
Gupta, professor
of accounting and chairman, Department of Accounting, College of
Business and Economics, Lehigh University
(B2) One Year After the Enron Trial:
Thoughts on Ken Lay, One Juror's Observations, and Preventing Future
Ethical Misconduct Disasters
This session will provide reflection on conversations the authors had
with Ken and Linda Lay after his conviction in May of 2006 as well as
insights from interactions and interviews with one of the Enron trial
jurors. The focus is on not only what happened, but, what we have
learned from the Enron collapse. Issues associated with creating an
ethical organizational culture will be discussed along with those
elements which contributed to Enron's demise. Recommendations for
preventing future ethical misconduct disasters will be provided.
- Linda Ferrell, associate
professor of marketing and Creative Enterprise scholar, The Robert
O. Anderson Schools of Management , University of New Mexico
- O.C. Ferrell, professor of
marketing and Creative Enterprise scholar, The Robert O. Anderson
Schools of Management University of New Mexico
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| 2:30 p.m.–3:00
p.m. |
Refreshment
Break
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| 3:00 p.m.–4:30
p.m. |
Plenary III:
Perspectives on Governance in
a Post-SOX World
Among the topics presented 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.
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| 5:00 p.m.–6:30
p.m. |
Reception
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WEDNESDAY, July 11
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| 7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. |
Continental
Breakfast
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| 7:30 a.m.–11:30
a.m. |
Registration
/ Information
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| 8:00 a.m.–9:30
a.m. |
Plenary IV:
Principled Leadership
in a Competitive World
Among the topics Mr. Ward will discuss will be the corporate responsibility to
improve the world in which we live. He
will also talk about the challenges principled leaders face in this
global economy as they try to operate ethically around the world. retired
Chairman and CEO of Russell Corporation
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| 9:30 a.m.–10:00
a.m. |
Refreshment
Break
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| 10:00
a.m.–11:30 a.m. |
Plenary V:
Taking the Harder
Right
The
Halle and Associates session on ethics provides gripping, dramatic,
real-life stories with practical implications, not dry or philosophical
dissertations. Touches of wit, interlaced with the heartfelt, honestly
recounted compelling tales drive home the points consistently and
memorably. More? See
www.corporatescaredstraight.com.
- Diann Cattani,
successful manager who led a small human resources company into a
national success
- Oliver Halle,
28-year veteran of the FBI; author of
Taking the
Harder Right
- Josh Kenyon,
former Chief of Staff of a major metropolitan county government
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CONFERENCE CONCLUDES |
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