Alliance-Related Campus-Wide Events

2012

FEBRUARY

2012 Verizon Visiting Professor: Globalization and Its Challenges for Business in the 21st Century
Speaker: Patricia Werhane, Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Managing Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University
When: Monday, February 6, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Where: LaCava 395 (Executive Dining Room)

As our 2012 Verizon Visiting Professor, Pat Werhane will share her thoughts about the ethics of globalization. While there have been significant opportunities for entrepreneurial businesses — with the right set of skills and strategies — the recent Global Financial Crisis has created unprecedented challenges — and the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has gone global. As one of the most respected scholars of business ethics in the United States today, Werhane will take a hard look at the ethics of globalization and its challenges.

Sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics

Open to the public

Interaction Order in the Late-Modern City
Speaker: Rodrigo Suassuna, 2011-2012 Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology and the Valente Center
When: Friday, February 3, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Where: Adamian Academic Center Rm. 254

The presentation will draw on an ethnographic study of Greater Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil. The research reveals the myriad obstacles to effective social exchange, leading to the potential development of inter-generational mistrust, especially concerning the expectations of human rights and freedom of expression held by the inhabitants of such poor areas.

Sponsored by the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences

Open to the Bentley Community

Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right
Speaker: Mary Gentile, Babson College
When: Wednesday, February 1, 3:35 – 4:50 p.m.
Where: Danielson AB, LaCava

How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, colleagues, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Join us to explore how you can empower yourself with the skills and insight to voice and act on your values, and align your professional path with your principles. Her book — Giving Voice to Values (Yale University Press) — was inspired by a curriculum Gentile launched at the Aspen Institute with Yale School of Management, now housed at Babson College, with pilot programs in over 140 schools and organizations on five continents.

Challenging the assumptions about business ethics at companies and business schools, she argues that often the issue isn't distinguishing what is right or wrong, but knowing how to act on your values despite opposing pressure. Drawing on actual business experiences as well as social science research, Gentile will offer advice, practical exercises, and scripts for handling a wide range of ethical dilemmas. 

Mary C. Gentile is director of the Giving Voice to Values curriculum and senior research scholar at Babson College. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review,strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine, and Risk Management, and she has written several books on ethics and diversity.

Co-sponsored by Complex Problems/Creative Solutions, The Bentley Civic Leadership Program, Ethics & Social Responsibility LSM, and the Academic Integrity System

Open to the Bentley Community

Light refreshments will be offered following the program

2011

DECEMBER

The Burning Season
When: Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

As the world's third-largest carbon emitter, Indonesia is stuck between a rock and a hard place as it struggles to feed its people without destroying its most precious resource -- its rainforests. This documentary shines a light on the dilemma. Narrated by Hugh Jackman, the film follows a trio of individuals at the heart of the struggle -- a palm oil farmer, an orangutan rescuer and a carbon trader -- through a single burning season.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Sustainability and the Earth, Environment and Global Sustainability Liberal Studies Major

Open to the Bentley Community

NOVEMBER

International Film Series: Bend It Like Beckham
When: Thursday, November 10, 7:00pm
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

Teenager Jess (Parminder Nagra) doesn't want to end up as a boring solicitor. She wants to play football like her hero, David Beckham. But being a girl, her chances are limited to having a kick about in the local park and, being an Asian girl, her family doesn't even agree with her doing that.

Sponsored by the International Film Series initiative.

Open to the public.

King Corn
When: Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

In Aaron Woolf's thought-provoking documentary, friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis move back to America's Corn Belt to plant an acre of the nation's most-grown and most-subsidized grain and follow their crop into the U.S. food supply. What they learn about genetically modified seeds, powerful herbicides and the realities of modern farming calls into question government subsidies, the fast-food lifestyle and the quality of what we eat.

Sponsored by the Bentley Office of Sustainability and the Bentley Green Society

Open to the public.

Educated, Trained or Called? Moving from a Business Education to a Satisfying Profession
When: Thursday, November 3, 3:35 to 4:50 p.m.
Where: LaCava 375AB

Join Professor Moots in a stimulating conversation exploring the meaning of your career. His scholarship focuses on work and vocation, and how the virtues of transitional professionals can be integrated into all variations of employment.

Sponsored by the Valente Center for Arts & Sciences

Open to the Bentley Community.

OCTOBER

Unconventional Leadership: What It Takes To Effect Change and Secure Justice
Speaker: Judge Nancy Gertner
When: Wednesday, October 26, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

As the fall 2011 Tufts Speaker Series, Judge Nancy Gertner will share her views on leadership, change and justice. While there are many paths to leadership, Gertner underscores the importance of a strong moral compass and the fortitude to hold true to a set of core beliefs. Please join us for an enthralling conversation about leadership and success in a world of increasing complexity and conflict.

Sponsored by the Center for Women and Business.

Open to the public.

International Film Series: Historias de fútbol/Football Stories
When: Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

Three stories about football. A third division player from Santiago de Chile is bribed, but does not realize that his behavior betrays more than the loyalty of his teammates. A boy from Calama, Chile wins the local derby pichanga, a soccer match that can last all afternoon, but he loses the few pesos he acquired by pawning his mother's last possessions. Francisco, a young man from the city, is stuck in a remote corner of the southern island of Chiloé on the day that Chile has to play its qualifying match for the World Cup. The only TV is in the house of the Serón sisters. While the local male population gathers to watch the match, the sisters decide which of them will initiate the young Francisco into love.

Sponsored by the International Film Series initiative.

Open to the public.

Inventing a Win-Win-Win-Win-Win Future
Speaker: Gary Hirschberg, Chairman, President and CE-Yeo, Stonyfield Farm
When: Tuesday, October 18, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

As the 17th Raytheon Lecture in Business Ethics, Hirshberg, who leads Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer examines the environmental and health costs of cheap food. His comments focus on creating a sustainable approach to business that respects the interests of all company stakeholders.

Sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics.

Open to the public.

Gasland
When: Monday, October 17 and Tuesday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

In this Oscar-nominated documentary, director Josh Fox journeys across America to examine the negative effects of natural-gas drilling, from poisoned water sources to kitchen sinks that burst into flame to unhealthy animals and people. Is natural gas a viable alternative to the country's dwindling energy resources, or do the potential harmful consequences outweigh the positives? Fox's film raises these and many more probing questions.

Sponsored by the Bentley Office of Sustainability and the Bentley Green Society.

Open to the public.

#OccupyWallStreet: What's it All About?
When: Monday, October 17, 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
Where: Media and Culture Labs and Studio, Lindsay 10, 18

Protesters on Wall Street, Occupy Boston demonstration gathering momentum in the wake of a police crackdown… What is going on? Join Bentley professors for an informed discussion of recent events: Atul Gupta (Finance), Elizabeth LeDoux (EMS), Randall Nichols (EMS), Kartik Raman (Finance), Joni Seager (Global Studies), and Cyrus Veeser (History).

Sponsored by the Department of Global Studies & The Valente Center for Arts and Sciences.

Open to the Bentley community.

SEPTEMBER

Building Character
Speaker: Randall Wood, Documentary Filmmaker
When: Tuesday, September 27, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30p.m.
Where: Back Bay Rooms, Student Center

Through analysis of recent documentaries in distri¬bution and a new film in production (The Grammar of Happiness) for the Smithsonian Channel focused on Dean of Arts & Sciences Daniel Everett's theory of language, Randall Wood will examine the critical role of character development in shaping a successful documentary. During the talk, Wood will feature clips of his internationally recognized film The Worm Hunters.

Sponsored by the Valente Center for Arts & Sciences and the Department of English and Media Studies.

Open to the public.

International Film Series: Afsaid / Offside
When: Monday, Sept. 26, 7:00pm
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

A sports movie in which the game takes place entirely out of sight. The setting, most of the time, is a stadium in Tehran, where the Iranian national soccer team is facing Bahrain in a qualifying match for the World Cup. We hear the cheers and groans of the crowd and some improvised play-by-play from a few spectators, but like the film's main characters, die-hard supporters of the team, some of them adorned with face paint in the red, white and green of the Iranian flag, we never see what is happening on the field. Those unlucky fans are young women, whose attempts to see the match live are stymied by the police and by strict rules forbidding the mixing of the sexes. Trying to pass for boys, a half-dozen of them have been rounded up and confined to a makeshift holding pen on a ramp outside the stadium walls. The young soldiers who are their captors seem to be just as confused and demoralized as the women themselves, and the film's rich, pointed comedy arises from the sense that all of them, men and women alike, are trapped in an absurd, insoluble predicament.

Sponsored by the International Film Series initiative.

Open to the public.

Why Do Good Employees Do Bad Things?
Speaker: David Gebler, President, Skout Group, LLC
When: Wednesday, September 21, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Smith 122

David Gebler, an expert in corporate culture, ethics and values, will lead a 75-minute discussion on what are the root causes of why good employees do bad things. Drawing from his 20 years of experience in the field, Gebler will show how key fundamentals of social psychology and behavioral economics get lost in corporate culture, unnecessarily creating risks for organizations.

Sponsored by the Design and Usability Center.

Open to the Bentley Community.

Food, Inc.
When: Tuesday, September 20, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

In this provocative film, which draws on on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, director Robert Kenner's Oscar-nominated documentary explores the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. Kenner spotlights the men and women who are working to reform an industry rife with monopolies, questionable interpretations of laws and subsidies, political ties and rising rates of E. coli outbreaks.

Sponsored by the Bentley Office of Sustainability and the Bentley Green Society.

Open to the public.

International Film Series: Pelada 
When: Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

Away from professional stadiums, bright lights, and manicured fields, there's another side of soccer. Tucked away on alleys, side streets, and concrete courts, people play in improvised games. Every country has a different word for it. In the United States, we call it "pick-up soccer." In Trinidad, it's "taking a sweat." In England, it's "having a kick-about." In Brazil, the word is "pelada," which literally means "naked" - the game stripped down to its core. It's the version of the game played by anyone, anywhere - and it's a window into lives all around the world.

Sponsored by the International Film Series initiative.

Open to the public.

Remembering 9/11/2001: Ten Years Later

Bentley will be hosting a series of event in remembrance of 9/11. 
September 6 to 12: "We Remember Banner": All Bentley community members are encouraged to write their names and capture their memories on the 9/11 Banner.
September 9: 9/11 Commemorative Pins, 11:30 to 1:30, Outside Seasons and the Lower Café: Commemorative pins will be distributed to members of the Bentley community.
September 9: 9/11 Remembrance Service, 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. The Sacred Space, 3rd Floor, Student Center.
September 11: The Sacred Space, 3rd Floor, Student Center: The Sacred Space will be open for prayer, quiet mediation and signing the Book of Remembrance.

APRIL

The Egyptian Revolution: A Story Still in the Making 
Speaker: Dr. Laila Iskandar, Inaugural Valente Center Short-Term Visiting Scholar
When: Thursday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

Dr. Iskandar, a Cairo-based social entrepreneur, will share her views about the changes taking place in Egypt.</p>

Sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences Lecture series.

Open to the public.

The Ethics of Teams: Playing Fair in Business
Speaker: Steve Pagliuca, Managing Director, Bain Capital; Co-owner, Boston Celtics
When: Thursday, April 7, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

Please join us for the spring semester Raytheon Lectureship in Business Ethics. Student often hear that business success is a matter of break-the-rules, cutthroat competition. According to Steve Pagliuca, however, to succeed in business it is necessary to play fair and work as part of a team. As the managing director of Bain Capital and co-owner of the Boston Celtics, he is able to draw on experience that few can match.

Sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics

Open to the public.

The Garbage Collectors of Cairo: Social Entrepreneurship in Action
Speaker: Dr. Laila Iskandar, Inaugural Valente Center Short-Term Visiting Scholar
When: Tuesday, April 5, 2:10p.m. 
Where: Commons, Adamian Academic Center

Dr. Iskandar, a Cairo-based social entrepreneur, will share her views of Cairo's garbage collectors as social entrepreneurship in action.

Co-sponsored by the Global Studies Department, the Complex Problems/Creative Solutions program, and the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences.

Open to the Bentley Community

MARCH

Faculty Research Roundtable
When: Wednesday, March 30, 12:45 to 2:00 p.m. 
Where: LaCava 300AB

Please join us for the Spring 2011 Faculty Research Roundtable with: Ali Abdolmohammadi (AC) talking about "Value Preferences, Political Orientation, and Moral Reasoning for Certified Public Accountants"; Dhaval Dave (EC), focusing on "Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisitions of Adult Women"; and Mary Marcel (IDCC), looking at "Feminist Crossovers: Survivors of Priest Abuse and the Use of Feminist Practices in Female and Male Recovery."

Sponsored by the Women's Leadership Institute

Open to the Bentley community.

Coexist: The Aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide
Speaker: Adam Mazo, Film Director When: Wednesday, March 23, 5:00p.m.
Where: Wilder Pavilion, Adamian Academic Center

When hate persists, how will you coexist? Coexist tells the stories of trauma survivors searching for ways to coexist with their loved ones' murderers. As killing continues in Rwanda today and the government forces citizens to consider reconciliation, the film examines the varied paths survivors choose when forced to face enemies and former enemies every day. In a world where innocent people are regularly attacked or killed because of who they are, how can Rwandans experiences inform efforts to build peaceful coexistence, eliminate hate crimes, and prevent all types of violence?

Following the screening of the film, Director Adam Mazo will take questions from the audience, and discuss the various components of the process of making the documentary.

Sponsored by the Bentley Student Diversity Council.

Open to the Bentley community.