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January, 2007

 

	Remembering Robert Solomon Academic Advisor Robert C. (Bob) Solomon died on Tuesday, January 2 in Zurich, Switzerland at the age of 64 while traveling with his wife, Kathleen Higgins, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas. Solomon collapsed while transferring to a flight to Rome and died within minutes from a congenital heart defect. While Solomon's exceptional academic achievements and talents were widely admired—especially his renowned lecturing skills—friends and colleagues also deeply cherished his personal qualities. Their reflections are captured in an In Memoriam piece. Obituaries and remembrances of Solomon's life and work are collected in the special section below: Robert C. Solomon Sept. 14, 1942 - January 2, 2007 Renowned UT philosophy professor dies suddenly in Zurich Austin American-Statesman, January 5, 2007 By Jeff Salamon UT philosophy professor dies unexpectedly The Daily Texan, January 5, 2007 ByKathy Adams   Memorial service held for UT professor Faculty, students remember professor for openness, devotion The Daily Texan, January 22, 2007 By Julio Trujillo The Sherpa: Professor Robert Solomon, 1942-2007, could prepare you for any path Austin Chronicle, January 19, 2007 By Roger Gathman   News Austin Chronicle, January 12, 2007 By Shawn Badgley Jan. 20 Public Service Set for Professor Robert Solomon  US Fed News, January 9,  2007
Pessimism vs. Existentialism Chronicle of Higher Education, January 27, 2007 By Robert Solomon
	"In short, existentialism is not a philosophy that allows us to feel sorry for ourselves in the midst of our malaise. It is a philosophy with which we can come to grips with these terrible times and actually change them. The recent midterm election was encouraging. What it suggests is that America is collectively recouping its existentialist roots, not because of national pessimism but because of what I hope is the beginning of a cooperative optimism and the sense that things as they are cannot stand."
Georgetown University to Host Corporate Crime Conference Corporate Crime Reporter, January 23, 2007
	George Brenkert, director of the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute, said that while the organizers have a point of view on the subject, there was no “ideological litmus test” for choosing panelists. “We chose the best people we could find in the field,” Brenkert said. Brenkert is the author of a soon to be published book titled “Ethics in Marketing,” (Blackwell, 2007).
Why You're Not Happy Sure, you're a successful CIO. But that's part of the problem. CIO Magazine, January 22, 2007 By Megan Santosus
	Coauthors Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson of the Harvard Business School are out to shake up conventional notions of success with their recent book titled (somewhat misleadingly) Just Enough. (A better title would be The Many Faces of Success.) The book's premise is that too many businesspeople put all their notions of success into one professional basket. By doing so, they put themselves on an endlessly revolving gerbil wheel, trying to achieve a continuously receding and ultimately unattainable more: more titles, more money, more deals. And no matter how much more they achieve and acquire, there's always more waiting to be achieved or acquired in (they think) just another turn of the wheel.
Lifting the Lid-Fat US CEO pay seen a wider society concern Reuters News, January 5, 2007 By Martha Graybow
	Even if more of this generation's CEOs end up sharing their wealth, that doesn't help explain their huge salaries, some ethics experts say. "I don't know of any ethical theory in my training in philosophy that would justify some of the pay that we are seeing," said Norman Bowie, a business ethics professor at the University of Minnesota. "There is a tremendous sense of entitlement out there on the part of CEOs."
Corporate governance forum BusinessWorld, January 5, 2006
	The Ateneo Graduate School of Business (AGSB) and Governor Jose B. Fernandez Jr. Ethics Center is holding a forum on corporate governance and ethics today, Jan. 5, as part of AGSB's 40th anniversary celebration. The speaker for the event is Dr. Patricia H. Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Ethics, University of Virginia.
Boards may feel impact of scandal Albany Business Review, January 20, 2007 By Nicole Garrison-Sprenger and John Vomhof, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
	"Business always whines and complains about regulation, but then they do everything they can to bring it on themselves," said Norman Bowie, professor of strategic management and organization at the Carlson School of Management. (This article also appeared in the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal.)
It was only a matter of time Is an MLK Day sale an honor or unethical? South Bend Tribune, January 13, 2007 Heidi Prescott and YaVonda Smalls
	And at what point does the overcommercialized world become too commercialized? "I don't have that answer," said Patrick Murphy, professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.Consumers who may be put off by Martin Luther King Jr. Day sales, like those with military ties who feel the same way about Memorial Day and Fourth of July sales, will vote with their feet, he said, and stay away. "And others, in our sort of jaded consumer culture, just go about their merry way," said Murphy, also co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. "There's the expectation now that virtually every holiday will have some ... retailers involved."
With pressures of business, ethics can end up the victim Workers grapple with tough choices Detroit Free Press, January 4, 2007 By Michael L. Diamond
	The point: Pressure to meet Wall Street's financial expectations or fit into a company's culture can be fierce, and despite the seemingly endless number of lessons, ethical breakdowns continue, said Edwin Hartman, director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers University. "Ethics isn't about avoiding being Enron," Hartman said. "It's about being a thoughtful, responsible, honest professional and having good values such as the sort of self-respect that would cause you not even to want to be unethical." (This article also appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Ocean County Observer.)
Corporate governance forum BusinessWorld, January 5, 2006
	The Ateneo Graduate School of Business (AGSB) and Governor Jose B. Fernandez Jr. Ethics Center is holding a forum on corporate governance and ethics today, Jan. 5, as part of AGSB's 40th anniversary celebration. The speaker for the event is Dr. Patricia H. Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Ethics, University of Virginia.
Combating Poverty The College of Commerce begins a three-year program to help fight poverty The Depaulia, January, 2006 By Coryn Connelly-Cabreros
	The program is sponsored by the college’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics (IBPE). It is funded in large part by a $45,000 grant from Abbott Laboratories. The Institute became involved with the program in large part because the ethics officer of Abbott, Charles Brock, is also on the board of IBPE. During the next academic year, the IBPE will begin programs that look into how businesses can combat the problem of health care for the poor and uninsured. In the third year of the initiative, IBPE intends to create models for the business arena that concentrate on poverty in urban areas and local and global access to health-care. According to Patricia Werhane, executive director for the institute, Abbott Labs also has a foundation that funds projects of interest in health care and ethics.

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