Center for Business Ethics

 

CBE promotes integrity and trust in business by encouraging the establishment of organizational cultures and practices that drive ethically responsible decision-making and conduct to create long-term economic, social and environmental value. The center staff pursues this mission through the application of expertise, research, education and a collaborative approach to dissemination of best practices.

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. 

Over three decades, CBE has shown unsurpassed leadership in advancing knowledge, stimulating public discourse and disseminating best practices among a global network of executives, ethics and compliance professionals, academics, researchers and students of business. 

Learn more about CBE and its work.


The Center has two new features on its web site — please see below.

WILLIAM S. WOODSIDE 

The Lectures of William S. Woodside,
CEO of Primerica
(formerly American Can)
1922-2000

The Center for Business Ethics has
been given the unique opportunity
to archive 80 lectures given by
William Woodside, spanning the
years 1973 to 1992. For this honor
we give special thanks to
Mr. Woodside’s wife, Migs Woodside.
Link to Speeches and Biography

HOWARD D. PUTNAM

Howard Putnam, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, is a member of the Center for Business Ethics' Advisory Board. Since retiring from Southwest Airlines, he has become one of the most respected business consultants, motivational speakers, authors and commentators in the areas of leadership, customer service, change management, and ethics.

Visit Howard's home page to visit Howard's Homepage and to subscribe to his free and very popular online series, the “Putnam e-Series.”





 

 

 

 

Verizon Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics and Information Technology
George Brenkert, Director, Georgetown University’s Business Ethics Institute and Professor of Business Ethics, McDonough School of Business
February 9, 2009
Brenkert Flyer

Raytheon Business Ethics Lectureship Series
Tom Chappell, Co-founder and CEO, Tom's of Maine
April 7, 2009
Chappell Flyer

State Street Foundation Presents: The Fifth Global Business Ethics Symposium
Monday, May 18, 2009

Managing Ethics in Organizations
June 8 to 12, 2009