The Inaugural Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium

May 23, 2005

Ethics and Risk Management in a Global Enviroment

The Inaugural Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium

Bentley College

Waltham, Massachusetts

Opening Remarks: Ethics and Risk Management at State Street Joseph Chow, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk and Corporate Administration Officer, State Street Corporation

Luncheon Keynote: Corporate Leadership and Ethical Behavior: Ethics and Risk Management at Deloitte & Touche William Basic, Managing Partner New England, Deloitte & Touche

The 2005 Symposium program can be viewed here.

Complimentary copies of the Proceedings from past symposia are available upon request.

Ethics and Risk Management in a Global Environment

8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
 
9:00 to 9:45 a.m. Welcome:

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

Robert Galliers
Provost and Academic Vice President, Bentley College

Opening Remarks:
Joseph Chow
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk and Corporate Administration Officer, State Street

 
9:45 to 11:00 a.m. Broadening our Understanding of Risk Management

Moderator
W. Michael Hoffman,
Executive Director, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College

Panelists
Scott Harshbarger
Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP

Barbara Kipp
Global Ethics and Business Conduct Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Stephen Potts
Chairman, Ethics Resource Center

 
11:00 to 11:15 a.m. Break
 
11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ethics, Risk Management and Corporate Governance

Moderator
John Hansen
Research Fellow, Center for Business Ethics

Panelists
John Boatright
Baumhart Professor of Business Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

Laurence Stybel
Co-founder, Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire

Patricia Werhane
Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Executive Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, Depaul University; Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden School, University of Virginia.

 
11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sustainability: Ethics, Risk Management and the Triple Bottom Line

Moderator
Lisa Newton
Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University

Panelists
Dirk Matten
Director, Centre for Research into Sustainability, University of London

Takaji (Ted) Hishiyama
Former Senior Vice President, Mitsubishi Petroleum Development Co.

Mette Morsing
Director, Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School

 
12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Luncheon Speech:

William Bacic
Managing Partner New England, Deloitte & Touche

 
2:15 to 3:30 p.m.

Ethics, Risk and Stakeholder Management

Moderator
Robert Frederick
Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Bentley College

Panelists
Thomas Donaldson
Mark O. Winkelman Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

C. Lee Essrig
Director of External Relations and Ethics Officer, Ethics Officer Association

James Post
Professor of Strategy and Policy Development, Boston University

Donna Wood
David W. Wilson Chair of Business Ethics, Northern Iowa University

 
2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Corporate Reputation as a Strategic Asset

Moderator
Michael Michael
Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Panelists
Denise Drace-Brownell
Senior Counsel and Managing Director, DDB, Associates, LLC

Joan Dubinsky
Ethics Officer, International Monetary Fund, and Founder, Rosentreter Group

Mark Sparano
Chief Risk Officer & Managing Director, Risk Management, U.S. Trust Co.

 
3:30 to 3:45 p.m. Break
 
3:45 to 5:00 p.m. Developing an Ethical Infrastructure

Moderator
Keith Darcy
Interim Executive Director, Ethics Officer Association

Panelists
Patricia Ellis
Vice President of Business Ethics and Compliance, Raytheon

Joan Fontrodona
Academic Director, Center for Business in Society, IESE (Spain)

Duane Windsor
Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management, Rice University

 
3:45 to 5:00 p.m. Automating Ethics: The Role, Potential and Limitations of Information Technology

Moderator
Donna Fletcher
Associate Professor of Finance, Director Risk Management Program, Bentley College

Panelists
Michael Duffy
President and CEO, Open Pages

Charles Le Grand
Founder, CHL Global Associates, Inc.

Diane Wolff
President & Founder, Blue Sage Group

 
5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Closing Comments, Reception and Networking

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

Anthony F. Buono
Professor of Management and Sociology and Executive Director, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility
Barbara Kipp
Global Ethics and Business Conduct Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Charles Le Grand
Founder, CHL Global Associates, Inc.
Denise Drace-Brownell
Senior Counsel and Managing Director, DDB, Associates, LLC
Diane Wolff
President and Founder of The Blue Sage Group
Dirk Matten
Professor of Business Ethics and Director of The Centre for Research into Sustainability, Royal Holloway, University of London
Donna Fletcher
Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Risk Management Research Program at the Hughey Center for Financial Services at Bentley College
Donna J. Wood
David W. Wilson Chair in Business Ethics at the University ofNorthern Iowa
James E. Post
Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Doctoral Program in Business at Boston University
Joan Elise Dubinsky
Ethics Officer for the International Monetary Fund
Joan Fontrodona
Academic Director, Center for Business in Society, IESE (Spain)
John Hansen
Executive Fellow, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University
John R. Boatright
The Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., Professor of Business Ethics in the Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago
Joseph W. Chow
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk and Corporate Administration Officer, State Street
Keith T. Darcy
Interim Executive Director, Ethics Officer Association
Laurence J. Stybel, EdD
Co-founder, Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire
Lee Essrig
Director of External Relations and Ethics Officer, Ethics Officer Association
Lisa H. Newton, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Program in Applied Ethics, and Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Fairfield University
Mark Sparano
Managing Director and the Chief Risk Officer of U.S. Trust
Mette Morsing, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility at the Copenhagen Business School
Michael J. Duf
President and CEO of OpenPages
Michael L. Michael
Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Patricia H. Werhane
Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University
Patricia J. Ellis
Vice President of Business Ethics and Compliance of Raytheon Company
Robert D. Galliers
Provost and Academic Vice President, Bentley College
Robert Frederick
Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Bentley University
Scott Harshbarger
Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP
Stephen D. Potts
Chairman of the Board for the Ethics Resource Center
Takaji (Ted) Hishiyama
Former Senior Executive of Mitsubishi Oil Company and Visiting Executive Scholar, Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College
Thomas Donaldson
Mark O. Winkelman Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
William Bacic
Managing Partner for Deloitte’s New England Practice