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Agenda

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Monday, May 20

9:00 am

Welcome

Anthony F. Buono, Professor of Management & Sociology and Director, Bentley Alliance for Ethics & Social Responsibility, Bentley University

Gloria Cordes Larson, President, Bentley University

9:15 am

Keynote

Fredrik Gjerstad, Senior Vice President and Head of Investment Risk, State Street Global Advisors

10:00 am to 11:15 am

Enhancing Organizational Integrity

Moderator:

W. Michael Hoffman, Founding Executive Director, Center for Business Ethics, and Hieken Professor of Business and Professional Ethics, Bentley University

PANELISTS:

Jeffrey Oak, Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Development, Bon Secours Health System, Inc. 

Lynn Paine, John G. McLean Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Harvard Business School

S. Prakash Sethi, University Distinguished Professor of Management, Baruch College, City University of New York

11:15 am

11:30 am to 12:45 pm

Panel: Whistleblowing, Retaliation and Organizational Systems

MODERATOR:

Robert Frederick, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Bentley University

PANELISTS:

Janet P. Near, Dale M. Coleman Chair of Management, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University 

Mark Rowe, Advisory Services Leader, LRN Corporation

Mark Schwartz, Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Law, Governance & Ethics, York University

11:30 am to 12:45 pm

The Role of Government and the Regulatory Process

Moderator:            

Will O’Brien, Visiting Lecturer, Clark University Graduate School of Management

Panelists:

Marta Geletkanycz, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Jeanne Logsdon, Jack and Donna Rust Professor of Business Ethics, University of New Mexico

Wayne Norman, Mackowski Professor of Ethics, Duke University

12:45 pm to 2:00 pm

Lunch Speaker

Patricia Harned, President, Ethics Resource Center

2:15 pm to 3:30 pm

Panel: Accountability Standards in a Global Context

MODERATOR:

John P. (Jack) Hansen, Corporate Ethics Officer for RBS Citizens Financial Group, and Executive Fellow, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University

PANELISTS:

Michael Behnam, Associate Dean and Professor of Strategy & International Business, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University

Anil Chopra, Former Senior Consultant, Management of Business Ethics, Tata Sons, India

James Weber, Professor of Business Ethics and Management, and Founding Director and Senior Fellow, Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics, Duquesne University

2:15 pm to 3:30 pm

Panel: The Business of Peace: Business and the Arab Spring

MODERATOR:

Robert E. McNulty, Director of Programs, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University and Founder and Executive Director, Applied Ethics, Inc.

PANELISTS:

Wafa ElGarah, Dean and Associate Professor of Management  Information Systems, School of Business Administration Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

Tarek Hatem, Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Noômen Lahimer, Associate Professor of Economics, SMU – Mediterranean School of Business, Tunisia

Tarek Mahmoud Tantoush, Associate Professor of Management & Engineering, Libyan Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Libya

3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

3:45 pm to 5:00 pm

Closing Panel: Cleaning Up Organizational Messes: Principles, Practices and Possibilities -- Where do we Go from Here?

Moderator:

Cynthia Clark, Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, Bentley University

Panelists:      

Wesley Cragg, Senior Scholar and Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University, and Project Director and Principal Investigator, Canadian Business Ethics Research Network 

Amy Sepinwall, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics Wharton, University of Pennsylvania  

David Walek, Retired Partner, Ropes & Gray

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm