Welcome to the Center for Business Ethics

The Center for Business Ethics (CBE) is one of the world’s leading research and educational institutes in the field of business ethics. It is also among the oldest, having been established in 1976, when the field was in its infancy.

CBE is guided by its mission to promote integrity and trust in business by encouraging the establishment of ethical cultures in businesses everywhere. The center staff pursues this through the application of expertise, research, education and a collaborative approach to the dissemination of best practices.

For over three decades, CBE has demonstrated unsurpassed leadership in advancing knowledge, stimulating public discourse and fostering an appreciation for the importance of business ethics among a global network of executives, ethics and compliance professionals, academics, researchers and students of business.

Learn more about CBE and its work.

 

CBE is pleased to announce the publication of the monograph: 

“Inventing a Win-Win-Win-Win-Win Future”

By Gary Hirshberg
Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm


 

In this lecture, Gary Hirshberg, who turned a seven-cow organic farm school into the world’s largest manufacturer of organic yogurt, explains how to create the healthiest food possible in an environmentally responsible manner that simultaneously benefits all of the company’s stakeholders. To read the complete monograph, please click here.

 

 

Special Announcements
 


In 2012, CBE has continued advancing its work on many fronts. Here are a few highlights of some key events over the last few months and events coming down the road.
 

Verizon Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics

In February 2012, the Verizon Visiting Professor was Dr. Patricia Werhane, the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Managing Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She spoke on "Globalization and Its Challenges for Business Ethics in the 21st Century." For more information on the Verizon Lectureship, please click here.

Raytheon Lectureship in Business Ethics

Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
On Thursday, April 5th, 2012, 3:30 p.m., Mr. Kent spoke in the Adamian building, Wilder Pavilion at Bentley. His talk was entitled, “Toward a Sustainable Future.” In his speech, Mr. Kent focused on some of the critical lessons Coca-Cola has learned on its 125-year journey to provide job and growth opportunities, lend a helping hand to communities around the world, stimulate small business development, protect vital natural resources like water and crops, and improve women’s equality. For more information on the Raytheon Lectureships, please click here.

State Street Global Business Ethics Symposium

The State Street Global Business Ethics Symposium will be held on May 21, 2012.  The theme for this year’s Symposium is, “The Future of Capitalism: Ethics, Sustainable Practice, & the Global Economy.” It will include sessions in the following topics: 

  • “Conscious Capitalism: The Future of Capitalism?”

  • “Governance and the Responsible Enterprise,”

  • “Responsible Management, Responsible Capitalism: Implications for Business Schools,”

  • “The Business of Peace: India and Pakistan,”

  • “Capitalism and the Future Enterprise: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities,” 

 
The State Street Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop

The State Street Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop immediately follows the Global Business Ethics Symposium and will be held from May 22 to 25, 2012. This program has been in existence since 1988 with the purpose of helping faculty members from all fields to better integrate ethical reflection into every aspect of the business education curriculum. In 2004, the Business Ethics Teaching Workshop went global. Through the generous support of the State Street Foundation, visiting scholars from other colleges and universities around the world have joined Bentley faculty in this exciting endeavor. For more information, please click here.

Managing Ethics in Organizations

In June 11 to 15, 2012, CBE will hold its annual Managing Ethics in Organizations (MEO) course with an exceptionally distinguished cohort of faculty members. Since 1995, MEO has come to be seen as the gold standard in ethics practitioner education. This event is co-sponsored by the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association. For more information on this event, please click here. 

Business and Education for Peace

Continuing his work on “Business and Education for Peace,” Dr. McNulty will be moderating a panel of four scholars from India and Pakistan at the State Street Global Business Ethics Symposium. These scholars will also participate in the State Street Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop as well as participate in a week long discussion on ways of advancing peace on the Indian Subcontinent. Dr. McNulty has also been working with Bentley to advance the Pax Populi English Tutoring program in which Bentley University students and others serve as tutors to Afghan students via Skype. 

Visiting Scholars 2012

CBE continues to build on its reputation as an international center in business ethics research. Here is a list of visiting scholars for 2012.

  • Erhan Aydin, a management and organization research assistant in Usak University in Turkey and MBA student at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey.

  • Francisco Javier Lara Garcia, Vice President of International Relations and Sports at the Catholic University of Valencia, Spain. 

  • Ilona Szöcs, Research Associate and Doctoral Student, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Institute for International Marketing Management, Vienna, Austria.
  • Ignacio (Nacho) Ferrero Muñoz, teaches business ethics at the School of Economics in the University of Navarra, Spain.

  • Nuria Villagra Garcia, teaches at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain..

  • Marco Robles, ICADE Business School, University Pontificate de Comilas, Madrid, Spain.

  • Manuel Guillén Parra, Professor Titular de Organización de Empresas en la Universidad de Valencia, in Spain.

For a complete list of past visiting scholars, please click here. 


Recent Publications

 

“Can Corporate Capitalism be Redeemed?: Business Ethics and the Search for a Renewed Faith in Work” to appear in Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity, Helmut Wautischer, Alan M. Olson, and Gregory J. Walters (Eds.) by W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. McNulty, 2012.

“Transforming Faith in Corporate Capitalism through Business Ethics,” Journal of Management, Religion, and Spirituality, co-authored, by W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. McNulty, Autumn 2012


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