Welcome to the Center for Business Ethics
The Center for Business Ethics (CBE) is one of the world’s leading research and educational institutes in the field of business ethics. It is also among the oldest, having been established in 1976, when the field was in its infancy.
CBE is guided by its mission to promote integrity and trust in business by encouraging the establishment of ethical cultures in businesses everywhere. The center staff pursues this through the application of expertise, research, education and a collaborative approach to the dissemination of best practices.
For over three decades, CBE has demonstrated unsurpassed leadership in advancing knowledge, stimulating public discourse and fostering an appreciation for the importance of business ethics among a global network of executives, ethics and compliance professionals, academics, researchers and students of business.
Learn more about CBE and its work.
Special Announcements
The Center for Business Ethics’ “Business for Peace Initiative,” led by CBE’s director of programs, Robert E. McNulty, was featured in a recent article that discussed the week long encounter between two Israeli and two Palestinian professors who came together to study ethics and to discuss the potential role of business in contributing to peace between their two peoples.
To see the article, please click here: http://tiny.cc/x24ba
More recently a fuller discussion of this initiative appeared in the article at this link: http://tinyurl.com/Profs-for-peace
The Center for Business Ethics was recently honored when the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) identified Bentley University as the first university to be spotlighted for its excellence in the areas of ethics and sustainability. The site specifically noted CBE’s pioneering role in the field since 1976.
For more information, please see: http://www.aacsb.edu/resources/innovation/publications.asp
Rajendra Sidosia, Marketing professor at Bentley and a CBE Research Fellow, is the chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Conference at Bentley from May 24 to 25, 2010. You can locate this at http://conscious-capitalism.bentley.edu/
Center for Business Ethics founder and executive director, W. Michael Hoffman mentioned in HGPII Announces Major New Initiatives to Further Increase Transparency and Oversight in the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry.
Center for Business Ethics founder and executive director, W. Michael Hoffman featured in Time Magazine full-page Bentley-sponsored advertorial.
Gael O’Brien, Founder and Principal, Strategic Opportunities and a CBE Research Fellow has a weekly article blog called “The Week in Ethics.” You can locate this on the bottom of Gael's homepage http://www.strategicopportunitiesgroup.com/
CBE Executive Director Honored for Business Ethics Leadership
The Center for Business Ethics is pleased to announce that its founder and executive director, W. Michael Hoffman, PhD, was recently honored by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) at its Fifth Annual Compliance and Ethics Awards for his outstanding achievements, leadership, and personal commitment to the advancement of the corporate compliance profession.
Recent Publications
“Business Ethics Perspectives on International Negotiations” by Robert E. McNulty (CBE Director of Programs) and W. Michael Hoffman (CBE Executive Director) appeared in The ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations, (2009), edited by James R. Silkenat, Jeffrey M. Aresty (CBE Research Fellow), and Jacqueline Klosek (American Bar Association, Chicago, Ill.).
In this publication, CBE scholars, McNulty and Hoffman describe how business ethics has been crucial in reconceptualizing business and that the same principles need to be applied to the process of international negotiation.
CBE’s Business and Society Review
The Summer 2010 edition of CBE’s ethics journal has recently been published. View the current table of contents.
For more information on the journal and subscription information, please click here.
Raytheon Lectureship in Business Ethics
Values Investing: How Companies Create Innovation, Profits, & Social Good
Rosabeth M. Kanter
Harvard Business School Professor of Management
Chair & Director of Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative
Co-Founder & Chair of Goodmeasure, Inc.
March 19, 2010
Prof. Kanter discussed key insights that followed from a three and a half year investigation that served as the basis of her recent book SuperCorp. She argued that there are strong potential synergies between financial performance and attention to community and social needs. By embracing values and focusing on the world outside the organization, companies can gain competitive advantage while responding to social problems.
Verizon Visiting Professor Lecture
Ethics of Risk Management in the Information Age
John R. Boatright, Ph.D.
The Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J.
Professor Of Business Ethics
Graduate Business School, Loyola University Chicago
February 8, 2010
One of the key responsibilities of business is the wise management of risk. In less turbulent times than these, risk management might seem to be a concern only for specialists, but when the global economy suffers a catastrophe because of systemic failures in risk management, we should all pay attention. There may be no one more qualified to help us sort through the ethics of risk management than Prof. John Boatright.
