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July, 2005

 

Killeen Lectures focus on hope Green Bay Press-Gazette, July 30, 2005 By Jean Peerenboom
	“Remembering for the Future: Narratives of Truthfulness and Hope” is the theme for the fall semester of The Killeen Chair of Theology and Philosophy Lecture Series at St. Norbert College. All Killeen Chair events are held in the Fort Howard Theater, Bemis International Center and are free and open to the public. • Oct. 3: Robert Solomon, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He will lecture on “Emotions, Memory, Narrativity, and ‘Bad Faith’ “ at 7 p.m.
How Ebbers Lucked Out With a 25-Year Sentence: Ann Woolner Bloomberg.com, July 15, 2005 By Ann Woolner
	At a somber court hearing this week, where Bernard Ebbers would learn his punishment, his lawyers were losing nearly every argument as to why he shouldn't live out the rest of his life in prison. The surest way to get the biggest possible break in sentencing is to plead guilty (whether you are or not) and cooperate with the government. Ebbers would have done himself more good by saving his $100 million in charity and admitting guilt. "There's a completely new atmosphere in boardrooms and in corporations today, and the word is fear," says Thomas Donaldson, business ethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia and a consultant to corporations. "When other executives see people like themselves in handcuffs, it gets their attention." (Also appeared in the Indianapolis Star.)
Leading Execution Industry Week, July 1, 2005 By John S. McClenahen
	Once companies define corporate social responsibility and devise strategies, CEOs and other senior executives must creatively and effectively take the next step: lead the implementation. '"What executives in today's world have to do is . . . be ethical leaders," insists R. Edward Freeman, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School in Charlottesville and academic director of the recently created Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. "Ethics can't be what I like to call laminated ethics -- laminated on a card or plaque."
Do the right thing Management Today, July 1, 2005
	Leaders anxious to discourage skiving, pilfering and scamming at work should first examine their own behaviour and ethics, says Richard Reeves. "There is no doubt that there has been an increase in surveillance," says Norman Bowie, Andersen Professor of Business Responsibility at the University of Minnesota and the world's leading business ethicist. 'What does this mean? It signals a breakdown of trust among corporate stakeholders, and especially between employers and employees.'

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