Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop and Next Generation ESG Scholars Workshop
Sponsored by State Street Foundation
The 2011 faculty development workshop, sponsored by the State Street Foundation, was held in conjunction with the 7th Global Business Ethics Symposium from Monday, May 23, through Friday, May 27, 2011 on the Euromed Management campus in Marseille, France.
The program also included the third Next Generation ESG Scholars workshop, with visiting faculty members:
- Ann Buchholtz, Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and Research Director, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers University
- Andrew Millington, Director, Centre for Business, Organizations and Society, University of Bath
- Monika Winn, Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability, Francis G. Winspear Scholar and Interim Director, Business Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation, University of Victoria
The 2012 workshop will be held the week of May 21-25, 2012 on the Bentley University campus. For more information on the program and possible participation in 2012, please contact Tony Buono, Coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility.
BACKGROUND
As a way of influencing curriculum development in ethics, in 1988 Bentley’s Center for Business Ethics (CBE) began working with the academic chairs of the Accountancy, Law and Computer Information Systems Departments, providing them with assistance in integrating ethics into their departmental courses. The subsequent work with these departments — and its success in elevating the visibility of ethics in their curricula and stimulating faculty research in this area — prompted CBE to transform this initiative into a formal workshop. The first session was offered in May 1991, and it continues today.
Initially referred to as the Business Ethics “Gadfly” Workshop, the intent has remained the same since its inception — to encourage faculty to address ethical issues and questions of corporate responsibility in courses across the curriculum. The Gadfly reference dates back to Socrates, who described himself as a “gadfly,” a stinging insect whose purpose was to harass and “sting” the citizens of Athens out of their ignorance and intellectual complacency. By “seeding” each academic department with such gadflies, the goal was to develop a core group of faculty who would prod and influence their colleagues to incorporate informed discussions of ethical issues and corporate responsibility in their classes.
Since 1991, each May Bentley faculty members have gotten together for a five-day workshop to explore ways of integrating ethical issues into their disciplinary courses. The workshop is designed to accomplish this goal through:
• facilitated discussions among faculty from several different disciplines intended to provide them with a basic grounding in ethical theory and corporate responsibility; and
• presentations by the faculty participants on integrating ethics into their courses, with the opportunity for feedback from the workshop facilitators and other participants.
Guest speakers have included representatives from the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, Fortune 500 Ethics Officers, and Boston-area business people who are responsible for ethics and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Over the years, corporate sponsors of the program have included the GE Foundation, Guardsmark, Liberty Mutual, Monsanto, Sears, Texas Instruments, Verizon, and, most recently, the State Street Foundation.
By focusing on pedagogical tactics and approaches to incorporating ethical and social responsibility issues, the teaching workshop has stimulated a greater comfort level across our faculty. Over time, our experience suggests that faculty become increasingly skilled at engaging students in in-depth discussions of ethical issues, going beyond planned activities (cases, exercises, videos) to drawing on student work-related experiences and issues that emerge “in the moment.” There are now more than 120 business ethics workshop "alumni” on the Bentley campus, cutting across literally every business and arts and sciences department, and the workshop has had a clear influence on how ethics is dealt with in the curriculum.
In 2004, the Business Ethics Teaching Workshop went global. Through the generous support of the State Street Foundation, visiting scholars from other colleges and universities around the world have joined Bentley faculty in this exciting endeavor.
The Next Generation ESG Scholars Workshop
The Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues is a week-long program that brings together promising young doctoral researchers and world-leading experts in ESG related research and practice for the purpose of fostering these young researchers’ talents. The program aims to establish a dialogue between present and future ESG researchers, involving scholars from different disciplines with the underlying goal of supporting interdisciplinary conversations.
Beginning in 2009, three internationally recognized experts and four doctoral students (selected competitively) were invited to the Bentley campus in conjunction with the Global Business Ethics Symposium and Teaching Workshop sponsored by the State Street Foundation. The experts and students engages in a series of presentations and discussions (including detailed one-on-one feedback between expert and student), with the goal of promoting practically relevant research in the ESG area. Students also had the opportunity to participate in the internationally recognized Bentley teaching-ethics workshop occurring the same week.
RECENT TEACHING WORKSHOPS
2004 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2005 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2006 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2007 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2008 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2009 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2010 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2011 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
THE NEXT GENERATION ESG SCHOLARS PROGRAM
2009 Program Agenda (PDF)
2010 Program Agenda (PDF)
2011 Program Agenda (PDF)
WORKSHOP ALUMNI
Our Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop Visiting Faculty and Next Generation ESG Scholars Alumni (note: institutional affiliation at the time of participation in the workshop):
- Samir Abuznaid, Hebron University (Palestinian Territories, 2010)
- Kajsa Adu, Ashesi University (Ghana, 2011)
- Ruth Alas, Estonian Business School (Estonia, 2006)
- Abdelwehab Alwehab, University of Baghdad (Iraq, 2009)
- Semra Ascigil, Middle East Technical University (Turkey, 2009)
- Serap Atakan, Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey, 2011)
- Rebecca Awuah, Ashesi University (Ghana, 2009)
- Mohammad Bader, Al-Quds University (Palestinian Territories, 2010)
- Henri Bailey, Prairie View A&M University (Texas, 2005)
- Anna Bajo, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain, 2007)
- Anne Barraquier, CERAM Sophia Antipolis School of Business
(France, 2006) - Juan Benavides Delgado, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2007)
- Margaret Benefield, Andover Newton Theological School
(Massachusetts, 2005) - Zsolt Boda, Budapest University (Hungary, 2004)
- Tommy Borglund, Stockholm School of Economics
(Sweden, 2005) - Cynthia Brusman, Executive Jet Management (2010)
- Andreas Budihardjo, Prasetiya Business School (Indonesia, 2009)
- Jeanne Calderon, New York University (New York, 2006)
- Freed Calvert, Executive Jet Management (2010)
- Victoria Caparas, University of Asia & Pacific (Philippines, 2005)
- Juan Carrillo Hermosilla (Instituto de Empressa Business School (Spain, 2007)
- Tania Casado, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2010)
- Carol Cirka, Ursinus College (Pennsylvania, 2009)
- Frank Christmann, University of Seattle (Seattle, 2005)
- Sandra Chrystal, University of Southern California
(California, 2005) - Breeda Comyns, Euromed Management (France, 2011)
- Julia Dare, Next Generation ESG Scholar, University of Southern California (California, 2009)
- Lea Dippenaar, University of Pretoria (South Africa, 2004)
- Noha El-Bassiouny, German University in Cairo (Egypt, 2010)
- Carolyn Erdener, Middle East Technical Univeristy (Northern Cyprus, 2008)
- Hamidullah Farooqi, Kabul University (Afghanistan, 2008)
- Jose Luis Fernandez Fernandez, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain, 2007)
- Ignacio Ferrero, University of Navarre (Spain, 2011)
- Elizabeth Franklin-Johnson, Euromed Management (France, 2011)
- Fred Guy, University of Baltimore (Maryland, 2005)
- Eldrid Gynnild, Norwegian School of Management (Norway, 2004)
- Eric Hauer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria, 2006)
- Rosemary Hartigan, University of Maryland (Maryland, 2005)
- Olga Voronina Hawn, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Duke University (2010)
- Ralph Huenemann, University of Victoria (Canada, 2009)
- Vishwanathan Iyer, ICFAI Business School (India, 2006)
- Eugene Jaffe, Ruppin Academic Center (Israel, 2010)
- Ann Jennings, University of Houston-Downtown (Texas, 2007)
- Fred Kakaire, Multitech Business School (Uganda, 2011)
- Larry Kalbers, Loyola Marymount University (California, 2011)
- Avi Kay, Jerusalem College of Technology (Israel, 2005)
- Howard Kanter, DePaul University (Chicago, 2004)
- Liora Katzenstein, ISEMI-Entrepreneurship (Israel, 2010)
- Patricia Kelley, University of Washington (Washington, 2007)
- Bruce Kibler, University of Wisconsin-Superior (2010)
- Senthil Kumar, ICFAI Business School (India, 2006)
- Jolene Lampton, Park University Austin (Texas, 2011)
- Bill Lawrence, New York Institute of Technology (New York, 2005)
- Joanne Lawrence, Hult International Business School (2010)
- Cubie Lau, Next Generation ESG Scholar, University College Dublin (Ireland, 2010)
- Julie Lockhart, Western Washington University
(Washington, 2004) - Virginia Maurer, University of Florida (Florida, 2011)
- Garry McDaniel, Franklin University (Ohio, 2007)
- Paul Melendez, University of Arizona (Arizona, 2006)
- George Miaoulis, Lynchberg College (Virginia, 2006)
- Amalia Milberg, IAE (Argentina, 2004)
- Obaid Nejati, American University of Afghanistan (Afghanistan, 2008)
- Francy Milner, University of Colorado (Colorado, 2008)
- Miguel Olivas-Lujan, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Clarion University, Pennsylvania (2006)
- Jacob Park, Green Mountain College (Vermont, 2009)
- Bruce Paton, San Francisco State University (California, 2008)
- Isabelle Pignatel, Euromed Management (France, 2011)
- Gayle Porter, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Jersey, 2006)
- Prem Ramburuth, University of New South Wales (Australia, 2011)
- Anne Reino, Tartu University (Estonia, 2008)
- MaryAnn Reynolds, Western Washington University (Washington, 2005)
- Alan Richardson, York University (Canada, 2004)
- Melissa Samuelson, Thunderbird University (2010)
- Arthur Shacklock, Griffith University (Australia, 2006)
- Ben Shaw, Bond University (Australia, 2011)
- Yuliya Shymko, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Institute Empressa (SPAIN, 2009)
- Heja Sindi, University of Kurdistan (Iraq, 2009)
- Rieneke Slager, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Nottingham University (England, 2009)
- Anthony Spio, Ashesi University (Ghana, 2010)
- Elankumaran Srinivasan, TA Pai Management Institute (India, 2009)
- Erica Steckler, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Boston College (2010)
- Robert Strand, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark, 2010)
- Isidoro Talavera, Franklin University (Ohio, 2008)
- Anne Tercinet, EM Lyon (France, 2004)
- Thomas Thijssens, Next Generation ESG Scholar, Maastricht University (Netherlands, 2009)
- Greg Unruh, Thunderbird University (Arizona, 2005)
- Maaja Vadi, Tartua University (Estonia, 2008)
- Lucy Vannata-D’Aprile, Victoria University (Australia, 2006)
- Virginie Vial, Euromed Marseille School of Management (France, 2007)
- Nuria Villagra Garcia, Villanueva University (Spain, 2007)
- Hui Yun Yu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan, 2011)
- Ruojan Zheng, Xiamen University (China, 2005)
- Aron Zylberman, Tipo Consultores Associados (Brazil, 2010)
