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Events & Activities
Rutgers Ethics Initiative
The Prudential Business Ethics Center and the Eagleton Institute of Politics Except where this schedule indicates, call 973/353-5987
for additional information on events.
This is a partial and tentative list. Changes, and in particular additions, will
be made during the semester.
Recent Events, 2007–2008:
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Prudential Lecture:
"UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL MISREPRESENTATION: Executive Pay, Firm
Performance, and Corporate Governance"
Professor Jared D. Harris, Darden School of business, University of Virginia
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
4:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Esterly Lounge
Financial misrepresentation is a critical ethical problem in the modern
economy, and studies indicate that it is growing in prevalence. What are its
causes, and what are its effects on the firms and stakeholders involved?
Professor Harris will present insights from several related empirical
studies of financial misrepresentation, examining the influences of (and
implications for) firm performance, executive compensation, and corporate
governance practices.
The combined analyses show that:
• the influence of ‘incentive alignment’ runs counter to conventional
academic wisdom and common business practice
• poor performance can spiral into a mutually reinforcing vicious cycle of
unethical behavior
• the symbolic and substantive roles of lauded corporate governance
practices can substantially differ.
This leads to integrative insights about how businesses ought to be managed,
as well as the role of managers, regulators, and academic ethicists in
contributing to better business practice. Wednesday, November 28
Press Conference, State House, Trenton
The Rutgers Ethics Initiative Report "New Jersey
State Government Ethics Reform: Business Leaders and the Public Call for
Reform" was officially released. Friday, September 21, 2007
SOX’s 5th Birthday: A Candid No-Hold Barred Debate on the Good, the Bad and
the Unresolved
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
Sunday, July 8, 2007 - Saturday July 14, 2007
Merck Summer Institute on Bioethics
30 students from NJ high schools, especially in and around Newark, were
invited to attend a one-week residential program on the Rutgers–Newark
campus to consider the scientific background and ethical implications of
topics such as medical practice, stem cell research, DNA testing, fMRI
testing, cloning, genetic enhancement, pharmaceuticals, and disability
management The Institute was co-directed by Professors Jeff Buechner, Barry
Komisaruk and Bob Nahory. Academic Director Peter R. Gillett gave the
Keynote and Closing talks. Tuesday, May 4, 2007
Prudential Lecture:
"THE ETHICS OF DIRECT TO CONSUMER PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING"
Professor Dennis G. Arnold, Director of the Center for Applied and
Professional Ethics,
University of Tennessee
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
4:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Esterly Lounge
In 1997 the U.S. food and drug administration loosened its policy regarding
broadcast advertising of pharmaceuticals.
Since then prescription drug advertising has been one of the fastest growing
portions of healthcare spending in the U.S. direct to consumer (DTC)
advertising can be criticized on numerous grounds, but two concerns are
especially noteworthy.
• First, DTC advertising substantially increases marketing costs. When those
marketing costs are passed on to consumers or insurers, the benefits of such
advertising may be outweighed by the negative impact on consumers and
insurers.
• Second, branded DTC advertising, by appealing directly to consumers, can
have a variety of deleterious effects on patient-physician relationships.
In January 2006, partly in response to criticism, the pharmaceutical
industry instituted new guiding principles for direct to consumer
advertising.
This paper assesses the new guidelines and argue that on ethical grounds
they are insufficiently stringent. Alternative guidelines are defended.
Saturday, March 8, 2007
Eight Annual Joint Applied and Urban Ethics Conference
Race, Ethnicity and Medicine
Center for Law and Justice, Newark Recent Events, 2006–2007:
Tuesday, December 5 2007
Prudential Lecture:
"Advice to Business Ethicists: Forget Socrates; Remember Aristotle"
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
4:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Esterly Lounge
A valedictory lecture by Professor Edwin M. Hartman, Founding Director of
the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers and a Rutgers business and
philosophy professor for more than 20 years, examines ethics as a matter of
character and practical wisdom, rather than merely a compliance with
principles and rules. Professor Hartman asserts that business ethics
professors may or may not be able to teach good character, but that they can
at least help students recognize ethical issues and act according to their
values than under the influence of a corrupting culture -- but the process
of education must continue in the workplace as well.
Friday, December 1
“The Serpent in the Garden State: A Brief History of Corruption in New Jersey”
Lecture by Marc Mappen, New Jersey Historical Commission
Eagleton Institute, Wood Lawn, New Brunswick
Reception at 5:30; talk at 6:00
November 18
“Expenditure Cascades,” a lecture by Robert Frank, Cornell University
Bove Auditorium, Englehard Hall, Newark
2:00; reception at 4:00
November 15
Prudential Lecture by Professor Danielle Warren, Rutgers Business School
Dryden Hall, Prudential Plaza
2:30; reception at 4:00
November 10
Faculty colloquium for teachers of ethics
Eagleton Institute, Wood Lawn, New Brunswick
7:00; reception at 8:30
November 4
Camden Regional Ethics Roundtable
Rutgers Business School, Camden
10:00; lunch at 12:00
November 1
Talk by Eric Pillmore, Senior Vice President for Corporate Governance, Tyco
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
2:30; reception at 4:00
October 27
Sisters in Business, a mini-conference on women in color in the executive ranks
Sponsored by the Prudential Business Ethics Center
Robeson Multipurpose Room, Newark
4:00 panel discussion; 5:30 reception; 6:30 dinner and keynote address
October 26
Talk by David Finegold, author of BioIndustry Ethics, on Merck
Co-sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Management Program
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
4:00; reception at 5:30
October 24-25
Former Governor Thomas Kean visits Rutgers Business School
Primary sponsor is the Eagleton Institute of Politics
Exact times and topics to be announced
October 14
Newark Regional Ethics Roundtable
Dean’s Executive Conference Room, MEC, Newark
10:00; lunch at 12:00
October 6
The Future of Social Security, a lecture by Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of
Social Security
Eagleton Institute, Wood Lawn, New Brunswick
5:30
September 29
The Cheating Culture: Is No One Immune? – a lecture by David Callahan
Bove Auditorium, Engelhard Hall, Newark
2:30; reception at 4:00
September 26
Two Cheers for the Organization: My Family and the Hague Machine, a lecture by
Thomas Fleming
Eagleton Institute, Wood Lawn, New Brunswick
5:30
September 25
Ethical Decision Making: A Colloquium in Honor of the Dalai Lama
Sophie’s Bistro, 700 Hamilton Street, Somerset
1:00-3:30
732/545-7778
September 22
Informal Colloquium on teaching ethics
Department of Philosophy, Davison Hall, New Brunswick
7:30
April 7
Power & Status Seminar Series
Presenter:
Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Management and Global Business at RBS
Ctr. Law & Justice - 123 Washington Street, Rm. 080, Sills Cummis Lecture
Hall
12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
March 31
Forum — "Partnering Between The Public and Private Sector for Good
Government: Can We Restore Trust by Ethics Reform?"
Moderator: Ingrid Reed, Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers
Watch video
A
forum at Prudential Dryden Hall in Newark, sponsored by Rutgers Business
School - Newark and New Brunswick, featured welcomes by Oliver Quinn, Chief
Ethics Officer of Prudential and Wayne Eastman, Acting Director, Prudential
Business Ethics Center at Rutgers; and a keynote lecture by Paula A.
Franzese, ESQ., Peter W. Roding Professor of Law at Seton Hall University
and Chair of the State Ethics Commission. Respondents included Ray Bramucci,
former NJ Labor Commissioner; William Kearns, General Counsel, NJ League of
Municipalities; and Elizabeth Mason, President, NJ Foundation for Open
Government. Discussion with questions and comments from an audience of 200
included topics such as the status of pay-to-play and campaign finance
reform, the need for eliminating dual office holding, responsibilities of
citizens, a redefinition of public service, and the renewal of ethical
values for good government and family and business life.
February 24
Power & Status Seminar Series
Presenter:
Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Management and Global Business at RBS
Ctr. Law & Justice - 123 Washington Street, Rm. 394, Seminar Rm
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
February 10
Power & Status Seminar Series
Presenter:
Jeanne Brett, Northwestern University
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Management and Global Business at RBS
Ctr. Law & Justice - 123 Washington Street, Rm. 080, Sills Cummis Lecture
Hall
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
ONGOING
Ethics Across the MBA Curriculum
Danielle Warren is working with the chairs of several departments in the Rutgers Business School to develop business ethics cases and modules for their courses. In the fall term of 2003 she taught an undergraduate course on ethics in finance for the Department of Finance and Economics. Professor Warren has done research on best practices in ethics integration.
 Learn more about all ongoing projects at PBEC
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