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Recent Events and Activities
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July 11-17, 2004
Ethics Summer Institute
The Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers sponsored the second annual Ethics Summer Institute at Rutgers-Newark from July 11 through July 17, 2004. The students at the Institute were high school students from the Newark area.
In a one-week residential program the students were immersed in a range of short courses that relate to ethics in business. Among the titles: Ethical Issues in Professional Life; Ethical Choices; Ethical Dilemmas in the Media. Many of the sessions were taught by Rutgers professors. The students also had a number of cultural and recreational activities.
April 12, 2004
Ethics in New Jersey: The Politics of Urban Development
This program, the third in the series, will feature a panel discussion on concentrated urban poverty.
April 3, 2004
Conference: (Il)legal Drugs: Profit, Health, and the Public Good
The Department of Philosophy at Rutgers - Newark, in association with the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, the Joseph Cornwall Center, and UMDNJ, is organizing a conference on (IL)LEGAL DRUGS: PROFIT, HEALTH, AND THE PUBLIC GOOD. This conference, the fifth in the series, is to be held at the Center for Law and Justice on the Newark Campus on Saturday, April 3, 2004.
There will be two panels, one of which will discuss ethical issues relating to legal drugs, and the other that will do the same for illegal drugs. In addition we are sponsoring a keynote address, the John A. Williams Lecture, named in honor of the distinguished African American novelist, essayist, and emeritus professor at Rutgers.
Our laws make a clear distinction between what is legal and what is not, but the distinction between what should be legal and what should not be is not so clear. Legal drugs may cause addiction and other problems. Illegal drugs are accepted as harmless or even beneficial in other cultures. How do we justify the way we draw the line? Should we demand that others draw the line as we do?
March 25, 2004
 Prudential
lecturer Lawrence Mitchell speaks at the Center's conference on Ethics and
Corporate Governance.
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Conference:
Ethics and Corporate Governance: Is There One Best Way?
Is there one best approach to corporate governance? Or are directors, shareholder activists, top managers, general counsels, ethics officers, and others inevitably bound to pursue diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches to corporate governance, based on their diverse values and interests? If diversity in values and interests is an enduring reality, can one establish an optimal governance process in a company that allows different values and interests to be taken into account and balanced and reconciled effectively? The aim of the conference is to bring together executives, professionals, and academics for reflective and useful presentations and discussions on these topics. Rather than advocating a single position, we aim in the presentations and the discussions to mirror the variety of perspectives that is our theme.
The conference will be held March 25, 2004 at the Paul Robeson Center, Rutgers-Newark Campus.
Conference overview
Conference agenda
Learn more about the Corporate Governance Project
January 21, 2004 - Seminar on Ethical Theory for Business Ethicists
Second faculty development seminar in moral philosophy for business ethicists. The leader was Professor Howard McGary of the Rutgers Philosophy Department.
November 13, 2003 - Prudential Lecture
This semester's Prudential Lecture at Rutgers featured Professor James Gathii, of the Albany Law School. Professor Gathii's topic was "Ethics as Fairness: Towards a Level Playing Field in Global Business."
Read Professor Gathii's lecture
October 16, 2003 - An Evening with Sherron Watkins, the Enron whistleblower
This program was presented in collaboration with The Rutgers College Office of Student Leadership, Involvement, and Programs. Ms. Watkins, the Enron whistleblower who was named one of Time's persons of the year for 2002, is to speak in the Rutgers Student Center on the Rutgers College campus. After her talk there will be responses by: Jacqueline E. Brevard, Esq., Chief Ethics Officer of Merck; John J. Carney, Esq., Head of the Securities and Health Care Fraud Unit of the United States Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey; Michael H. Ullmann, Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson; and Peter R. Gillette, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick.
Summer 2003 - The Summer Ethics Institute
The Summer Ethics Institute, a one-week residential program, was designed to foster an understanding of ethics, especially in business, and to improve students' skills in critical thinking. Twenty high school students from the Newark area participated this summer.
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