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Bentley University

Bentley University is a national leader in business education. Centered on education and research in business and related professions, Bentley blends the breadth and technological strength of a university with the values and student focus of a small college. Our undergraduate curriculum combines business study with a strong foundation in the arts and sciences. A broad array of offerings at the McCallum Graduate School emphasize the impact of technology on business practice, including MBA and Master of Science programs, PhD programs in accountancy and in business, and selected executive programs. Enrolling approximately 4,000 full-time undergraduate, 250 adult part-time undergraduate, and 1,270 graduate students, Bentley is located in Waltham, Mass., minutes west of Boston and online at www.bentley.edu.break

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  • Ethics and the Corporate Culture

    Mon, Nov 10, 2003
    Raymond V. Gilmartin discusses the importance of business leaders, ensuring that ethics is deeply embedded in the culture of their organizations, and that the actions of every employee reflect a true commitment to ethical behavior. He also discusses how, in today's global economy, corporations must maintain their fundamental commitment to ethical behavior everywhere they do business. Gilmartin joined Merck as president and chief executive officer in June 1994 as the first president and CEO hired from outside the company. He was named chairman of the board in November 1994. He joined Merck after serving as chairman, president and CEO of Becton Dickinson. He is a member of President Bush's Export Council, and serves on the boards of General Mills, Inc., the Microsoft Corporation, and on Harvard Business School's Board of Directors of the Associates. Gilmartin earned a degree in electrical engineering from Union College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Merck is one of the world's largest research-driven pharmaceutical companies. The company employs more than 70,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in New Jersey. This year, BusinessWeek ranked Merck number 20 out of 50 top-performing companies. Merck is widely recognized for its efforts to improve global health and access to medicines. Founded in 1976, the [Center for Business Ethics]( http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/cbe) is dedicated to promoting ethical business conduct in contemporary society. With a vast network of practitioners and scholars, and an expansive multimedia library, the center provides an international forum for benchmarking and research in business ethics. The Center for Business Ethics helps corporations and other organizations strengthen their ethical cultures through educational programming and consulting, and is also a strategic partner of the Ethics Officer Association, which has more than 800 members.
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  • Information Technology and Intellectual Property

    Mon, Mar 29, 2004
    Norman E. Bowie, chair of corporate responsibility at the University of Minnesota, discusses the issues surrounding information technology and intellectual property.
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    Dow: Ethics as a Business Strategy

    Thu, Nov 4, 2010
    In this talk, Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company discusses how Dow, a Fortune 50 Company, has in recent years undergone a corporate transformation as it designed a long-term business strategy based on the unwavering belief that to create value for all of its stakeholders, the company must preferentially invest in businesses and technologies that allow it to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. By putting sustainability and environmental protection at the heart of its business model and by living those values every day, Dow has strengthened its position as a world leader in its field.
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  • Ethics of Risk Management in the Information Age

    Mon, Feb 8, 2010
    Loyola University Business Professor John R. Boatright takes a look at the complex phenomenon of risk management and some of the ethical issues associated with it. Although people have tried to manage risk for millennia, significant changes occurred in the mid-1990s that transformed risk management into a science that now guides much financial and business decision making. A product of sophisticated mathematical models made possible by powerful information technologies, today's risk management tools have created exotic securities and new markets that reduce some risks and increase others. Many critics have argued that there are important technical and ethical problems associated with these practices and that they may have significantly contributed to the Great Recession of 2007.
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  • Poetry of Ekiwah Adler-Belendez

    Wed, Mar 24, 2010
    Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, acclaimed 22-year-old Mexican poet, discusses his works *Soy* (I Am), *Palabras Inagotables* (Never-ending Words), *Weaver*, and *The Coyotes Trace*. Ekiwah has appeared on *Dateline* to discuss poetry and the lifelong cerebral palsy that confines him to a wheelchair. He is now a student at Hampshire College.
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    SuperCorp: How Companies Create Innovation, Profits, and Social Good

    Thu, Mar 18, 2010
    In this talk, Professor Kanter discusses key insights that follow from a three-and-a-half year investigation that served as the basis of her recent book *SuperCorp*. She argues that there are strong potential synergies between financial performance and attention to community and social needs. By embracing values and focusing on the world outside the organization, companies can gain competitive advantage while responding to social problems.
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