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The Business Roundtable Institute for
Corporate Ethics is an independent entity established in
partnership with Business Roundtable—an
association of 160 CEOs from leading companies.
The Institute brings together leaders from business and
academia to fulfill its mission
to renew and enhance the link between ethical behavior and
business practice
through executive education programs,
practitioner-focused research
and outreach.
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2008 Senior
Leadership Team Ethics Seminar
Developing Enterprise Ethics
Within Your Organization
October 17, 2008 -
Washington, DC
8:30 AM — 11:30 AM
The Senior
Leadership Team Ethics Seminar
provides a unique forum for
senior executives to engage in
in-depth discussion with
academic experts and peers about
critical issues facing today’s
business leaders.
This half-day
session—Developing Enterprise
Ethics within your Organization—will
be led by
R.
Edward Freeman, a professor
at The Darden School and the
Institute's academic director,
and
William Senhauser, Senior Vice
President and Chief Compliance
Officer at Fannie Mae, who will
lead a discussion on
Building an Ethics and
Compliance Infrastructure.
Seminar
topics will include:
connecting purpose to values;
identifying the role of
executives; assessing the impact
of a dynamic business
environment; understanding and
establishing stakeholder trust
View the seminar agenda
Register for the seminar
online |
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New Paper Outlines
Ethical Framework for Business
Innovation—Features an Interview with
Anne M. Mulcahy
 Innovation,
Ethics, and Business is an Institute
Bridge Paper™ based on the research of
Institute Fellow Kirsten E. Martin,
Ph.D., assistant professor of business
and economics at The Catholic University
of America. Martin’s research empowers
executives to make better ethical
decisions by giving them tools to
recognize potential ethical conflicts
related to the process of business
innovation.
The paper includes an interview with
Anne M. Mulcahy,
chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of Xerox Corporation,
which addresses some of the key issues
in innovating ethically in business.
This article speaks to challenges such
as: ensuring that inventions ‘match’ the
needs of the market; monitoring and
adjusting for unintended consequences of
innovations; and assessing the overall
impact of innovations.
Read
the paper l
Read
the news release |
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 Trust,
Reputation and Brand Begin Abroad
By
Dean Krehmeyer
A common link in many recent high profile product safety
recalls—from toys to toothpaste—is the complex role of
overseas subcontractors. As reported in a
Supply & Demand Chain Executive survey, firms expect
to increase their portion of total spend with foreign
suppliers by 46 percent over the next three years. The
increasing significance of foreign suppliers raises a
challenging question for today’s executives; specifically,
as outsourcing to foreign suppliers grows, who will be
responsible for protecting the firm’s intangible
assets—trust, brand and reputation—which now have global
reach?
Read
the full article |
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 Now
Available—A Teaching Note for the
Institute's Business Ethics Case,
Google Inc., in China
Request access to
the Teaching Note (access limited
faculty and corporate trainers)
Read
the Original Case
Read the
Condensed Case
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 Managing
for Stakeholders selected as a "Best
Bet for Board Reading" by
Directors & Boards
Read
about Managing for Stakeholders:
Survival, Reputation and Success
Read about
the Institute Book Series in Ethics and
Leadership
Click here
to listen to an interview
with the author.
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View Institute Sponsored
Business Ethics Conferences
& Events
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