CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY :
A CONFERENCE OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
February 11-12, 2000
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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)
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)
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)
Shareholder Theory & the Stakeholder Theory Thomas Carson (Loyola University of Chicago)
Do Shareholders Have Obligations To Stake holders? Earl Spurgin (John Carroll College, Ohio)
The New Spirit of Capitalism Ioana Marinescu (lUniversite 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Floating Many Boats: A Preference for the Broad Distribution of Market Benefits Andrew Askland (Arizona State University)
(Second paper to be announced)
"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.