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>>Institute News Releases  l  Media Kit 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 >> Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June June, 2009 Crime and punishment? Moral deterrents for crime Pyschology Today, June 27, 2009 By Art Markman   I was reading an article in the June 22 issue of The New Yorker by John Seabrook that described the Ceasefire program that aims to curb gang violence. The article described a collaboration between the Cincinnati police department and an anthropologist named David Kennedy. ... In these meetings, the gangs were given a strong moral message. Obviously, gang members who committed crimes stood the chance of punishment, but there was also a clear message that the violence was wrong and that it damaged the community.  ... One way to think about this is that incarceration (and even capital punishment) for crime sets up a business model. There is some evidence, though, that the moral dimension can provide an alternative motivation for action. For example, Ann Tenbruensel and David Messick published a study in 1999 in Administrative Science Quarterly in which they had business students play the role of a company manager who had to decide whether a factor should pay to have a factory's pollution scrubbers updated to satisfy new pollution regulations or to violate those regulations. Interview: Ed Freeman and Roger Bolton PRWeek, June 17, 2009 By Tonya Garcia   Senior reporter Tonya Garcia speaks to Ed Freeman, academic director, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, and Roger Bolton, senior counselor, APCO, about their role in the recent publication of the Arthur W. Page Society and Business Roundtable Trust Report. Coffee and pastries but no debate Economist.com, June 16, 2009   The annual meeting is the most visible evidence that the democracy at the heart of corporate governance (especially in America, where shareholders struggle even to propose motions for discussion or candidates for the board) is a sham. One of the great questions surrounding corporate governance is why the big institutional shareholders, which tend to vote in support of management, go along with such a sham. Why do they not act as responsible owners and insist that management take shareholder democracy more seriously? One obvious reason why institutional shareholders do not take more care in exercising their votes is that they are too busy trying to beat the market in the short term, so as to earn juicy bonuses, even though taking their duties as owners more seriously would lead to companies performing better in the long term. Public trust in business has plunged during the current economic crisis, as a new report by the Arthur Page Society and the Business Roundtable points out. Global Ethics Forum : première édition à Genève Boursier.com, June 15, 2009   La premiere edition du "Global Ethics Forum" se tiendre au Palais des Nations Unies de Geneve les 2 et 3 juillet prochains. Parmi les 32 intervenants internationaux du Global Ethics Forum, trois invites exceptionnels: ... Patricia Werhane, Presidente de l'International Society of Business Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) & Directrice Executive de l'Institute for Business and Professional Ethics a dePaul University - Chicago (USA).         Failing to build trust in business Management Issues, June 11, 2009 By Nic Paton   The pace of job losses, pay cuts and overtime bans may be starting to slow on both sides of the Atlantic, but the loss of public trust in business, the banking community and politicians during this recession is going to take a long, long time to come back.         Restoring Public Trust in Business University of Virginia Darden homepage news, June 10, 2009   A new report on public trust in business states it clearly: “The issue of public trust in business has never been more urgent or consequential than it is today. In many ways, the current global economic downturn is, at its core, a crisis of trust. ”“When individual businesses and industries lose trust, their ability to execute business strategy is significantly diminished,” said Darden Professor R. Edward Freeman, who serves as Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. Freeman was one of six authors, along with Darden Professor Jared Harris. Professor Andrew C. Wicks was a contributing writer.         O mundo desconfiado Terra Magazine, June 6, 2009 By Paulo Nassar   O 4th Annual Tuck Symposium on Communication, realizado no último dia 2, em Nova York, sob o comando do renomado professor Paul Argenti, colocou na berlinda corporações, instituições e a imprensa, ao analisar imagem, confiança, comportamento e reputação, no âmbito da crise financeira global. A confiança da sociedade nos negócios foi a questão dissecada por Brian Moriarty e Roger Bolton, que pinçaram informações entre os associados do Business Roundtable e da Arthur Page Society, com faturamento anual de cerca de US$ 5 trilhões e empregam perto de 10 milhões de trabalhadores.         Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics Joins Hundreds of Corporate Leaders on Ethisphere Council: Two Leading Organizations Combine Efforts to Promote Best Practices in Corporate Ethics  ETHISPHERE, June 2, 2009   The Ethisphere Institute is proud to welcome Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics to the Ethisphere Council as an exclusive content partner. Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, an independent business ethics center that operates in partnership with Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with more than $5 trillion in annual revenues and nearly 10 million employees—and academic experts from top business schools, joins more than 600 corporate leaders from various industries across the world on the Ethisphere Council.         Olsson Announces New Director University of Virginia Darden homepage news, June 2, 2009   In the wake of the financial crisis, as the world debates the causes and cures and the role of ethics in modern society, the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Business announces that Professor Andrew C. Wicks will become its new director on July 1, 2009. 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009   >> Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr| May | June