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
11:30 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
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
3:45 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