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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY :

A CONFERENCE OF BUSINESS ETHICS

Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

February 11-12, 2000

(Click here for a map of the campus,
and click here for a list of local hotels)

(Click here if you are interested in getting CLE credit for the
Friday morning Ethics & the Law session,
and for detailed information about the presenters for this session)

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 2000

8:00-8:30 Bagels and Coffee in Weasler Auditorium

8:30-10:00 Panel Discussion - Corporate Responsibility for Product Safety
(Weasler Auditorium)
chaired by Howard Eisenberg (Dean, Marquette University Law School)

10:15-11:45 The Ethics of Legal Ethics
(Weasler Auditorium)
Kevin Gibson & Mike Gillick (Marquette University)

12:00-1:15 Registration in the Lobby of the Straz Building

1:30 Conference Welcome - Nancy Snow (Marquette University),
Straz Building, Room 106

1:45-3:15 First Paper Session (concurrent presentations)

Room A

Disvalue of Contingent Valuation
Laura Westra
(Sarah Lawrence College, NY)


The Ethics of Using the Government to Subvert Competition: The Case of Antidumping Laws
Robert McGee
(Seton Hall University)

Room B

Green for the Sake of Green: Higher-Order Utilitarianism & the Environment
Erik Richardson
(Marquette University)

Eating Ourselves to Death: The Agrarian Critique of Corporate America
Daniel Kern
(Marquette University)


3:30-5:00 Second Paper Session (concurrent presentations)

Room A

Shareholder Theory &
the Stakeholder Theory

Thomas Carson
(Loyola University of Chicago)

 

Do Shareholders Have Obligations
To Stake holders?

Earl Spurgin
(John Carroll College, Ohio)

Room B

The New Spirit of Capitalism
Ioana Marinescu
(l’Universite Paris I
Pantheon-Sorbone, France)

 

Holding Labor Captive:
The Ethics of Prison Labor

Ken Volante
(University of Massachusetts)


**5:15 Reception in the Lunde & Heinke Rooms of the Alumni Memorial Union**

7:00 Keynote Address:
“Business Ethics at the Start of the New Millenium”
(Weasler Auditorium)
Richard T. De George
(University of Kansas)

 


Saturday. February 12, 2000

8:00-8:30 Bagels and Coffee
in the Lobby of the Straz Building

8:30-10:00 Third Paper Session (concurrent presentations)

Room A

Corporate Responsibility & the
Development of Virtue
Mary Lyn Stoll
(Purdue University)

The Spiritual Dimensions of
Courage in Management

Howard Harris
(International Graduate
School of Management,
University of South Australia)

Room B

Ethics & the Reflexive Corporation
Paul Hendrickson
(University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign

Do Business People Need
Moral imagination?
Paul G. La Forge
(Nanzan University, Japan)

 

10:20 - 11:50 Fourth Paper Session (concurrent presentations)

Room A

Distributive Justice in Firms:
Do the Rules of
Corporate Governance Matter?
Ian Maitland
(Carlson School of Management,
University of Minnesota)

 The Health of the Organization
as a Foundational Moral Principle

John Alexander
(Grand Valley State
University, Michigan)

Room B

Advertising Ethics
John Alan Cohan
(Law Offices of
John Alan Cohan, L.A., CA)

 

Advertising Ethics: The Myth
of the Sovereign Consumer
Andrew Gustafson
(Marquette University)


12:00 Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:00 Fifth Paper Session (concurrent presentations)

Room A

Civil Rights Laws,
Employment Practices
& the Just Society

Robert Fudge
(Syracuse University)

 

The Ethics of Redlining in Property
& Casualty Underwriting
Ed Davis
(Westfield Company, Ohio)

Room B

Floating Many Boats:
A Preference for the Broad
Distribution of Market Benefits
Andrew Askland
(Arizona State University)

 

(Second paper to be announced)

 

3:15 Keynote Address (David Straz, Room 105)

"Exporting Mental Models and the
Ethical Challenges of Global Capitalism"

Patricia Werhane
(Darden Graduate School of Business Administration,
University of Virginia)

**Wine and Cheese Reception to follow in Haggerty Art Museum**

This conference is sponsored by the Philosophy Department & the College of Business of Marquette University.  For more information, please call Andrew Gustafson (414-288-5957) or Tim Yoder (262-679-8077) or visit our website at www.marquette.edu/pgsa (email to: mupgsa@marquette.edu).

Cost: $25 (Checks to Marquette U) send to: PGSA, Phil Dept. MU, P0 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201

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Last updated 26 March, 2001.