Conference to examine current ethical issues in business

Author: Dennis K. Brown

New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzers mutual fund investigation, excessive executive compensation packages, music piracy and other current ethical issues in business will be explored during a conference Thursday and Friday (Nov. 18 and 19) at the University of Notre Dame.

Titled “Ethical Dimensions in Business: Reflections from the Business Academic Community,” the conference will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in Giovanini Commons on the lower level of the Mendoza College of Business. It is free and open to the public.

Presentations will be made by four Notre Dame business faculty members as well as scholars from four other universities. The conference schedule and a full list of topics are available at http://www.ethicalbusiness.nd.edu/pdf/Agenda.pdf

The conference also will include presentations from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday by the four finalists in a national dissertation competition for doctoral students titled “Excellence in Ethics.”

Both events are sponsored by Notre Dames Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide.

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_ * Ann Tenbrunsel, ONeill Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, 574-631-7402 or “tenbrunsel.1@nd.edu”:

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