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Ethical Funds’ Holdings Aren’t Black and White
Smart Money Magazine
, February 21, 2007

By Mark Glassman

 

There's been a boom in the number of mutual funds calling themselves socially conscious over the last few years. A common criticism of these funds is that no single one is socially responsible across the board. A fund that makes the environment its top priority might be less strict about screening for good corporate governance. Indeed, staying away from such stocks is the easy part of the socially conscious funds. "You exclude the sin stocks — booze, bombs and buds," says
Thomas Donaldson, director of the Wharton Ph.D. program in Ethical and Legal Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

       

DePaul leading charge for corporate ethics evolution
Chicago Sun-Times
, February 20, 2007

By Ted Pincus

 

"While we've been a leader in teaching corporate ethics and social responsibility for quite some time," DePaul Business School Dean Ray Whittington says, "actually prodding and mentoring corporations themselves is a more recent mission, as advocated by our Ethics Department chair, Patricia Werhane, and Business Ethics professor Laura Hartman. "We're helping to start a revolution, a hands-on approach."  (Also appeared in The Charlotte Observer.)

       
ProfNet Wire: Business & Technology: Executive Compensation Plans 
Newswise
, February 5, 2007
  ROUNDUP: EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PLANS: Jared Harris and Dean Krehmeyer are listed among those giving input on Executive Compensation Plans today.
       
Getting that culture thing
The National Law Journal
, February 5, 2007
By Timothy L. Fort
 

After 21 years of teaching ethical decision-making and the building of ethical corporate cultures to business students, I have just started to teach a law school course on the topic. Having done this once before in 1999, I knew that there would not be a lot of materials available that go beyond the traditional professionalism or ethical codes kinds of stuff, but since '99, the corporate world has shifted attention from "corporate compliance" to building "organizational cultures" that focus on "ethics and compliance."

That change resulted from post-Enron disenchantment with compliance models and with empirical evidence demonstrating that a compliance-based approach is not particularly effective — the test of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines — in creating compliant organizations. Instead, quite a bit of academic attention has been focused on how to build ethical cultures. Surely, some of this has affected law firms, too.

       

Rutgers appointment
Newark Star-Ledger, February 1, 2007

By Beth Fitzgerald

  Ray Bramucci, former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and a former New Jersey labor commissioner, yesterday was named director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, succeeding Edwin Hartman who is moving to the New York University Stern School of Business.

(This article also appeared in US Fed News.)

       

The Obvious Recipe for Greatness in Business
Outokumpu Factor
, February 2007

  R. Edward Freeman, a renowned authority on stakeholder theory and business ethics, explains why “business is all and only about creating value for stakeholders,” elaborating about misconceptions about business, creating opportunity out of conflict between stakeholder interests, and challenges to leadership.
       
   
   

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