Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society

12/09/2020

Accountability and transparency are important elements of professional responsibility. Shouldn’t these ideas apply to the SEC Office of the Whistleblower? See below....

The SEC has awarded 123 whistleblowers an astounding $731 million since the first payout in 2012. But what do we really know about the whistleblower program? The SEC's Office of the Whistleblower recently released its 2020 Annual Report to Congress, and it raises more questions than it answ ...

08/26/2020

The Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education is holding an Ethics and Social Justice Essay competition for undergraduates. The theme for the 2020 competition is Racial Justice: Realities and Possibilities. The deadline to submit is December 1, 2020 and you can win a top prize of $1,000. See the picture for additional details on submission and essay criteria.

08/26/2020

The APPE IEB is sponsoring an undergraduate paper competition in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition, along with the Ethics Program at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University. All past and present Ethics Bowl participants enrolled in an undergraduate program are eligible to potentially win a $250 prize as well as the opportunity to present the paper at a dedicated session during the APPE conference. See the picture for details.

07/23/2020

Gretchen Winter, Executive Director of the Center, is joining forces with compliance expert Murray Grainger for an international webinar and Q&A on August 13th. Topics that will be discussed include:

-Why whistleblowing is more than “best practice”
-What you call it matters: fostering trust and usage
-Intercultural differences in Europe and beyond

See more details and how to join here:

Ahead of implementation of the Whistleblower Protection Directive, we will look at what this means for public and private entities in the EU - and the people who work there. From what you call your incident reporting system to ensuring emotional support for the whistleblowers, are you and your organ...

07/13/2020

The Pioneers in Business Ethics project organized by the Center was featured in the June 2020 Society for Business Ethics Newsletter. Read more about the project and its most recent updates here:

THE PIONEERS IN BUSINESS ETHICS PROJECT Worrying about ethics in commerce may have begun in 1800 BC with the Code of Hammurabi, aimed at creating laws and norms in the ancient city of Babylon. As a separate academic discipline, though, modern normative business ethics began in the early 1970s follow...

07/01/2020

Register to attend the Ethics Bowl Summer Workshop, a two-day event, scheduled for four hours each day, Friday, July 24th and Saturday, July 25th. Saturday will focus on the various ways that going virtual will impact the Ethics Bowl, and Friday will focus on many of the traditional themes such as forming a team, discussions of coaching strategies, rules, and judging.

The link to register is here:

2019 Ethics Bowl Summer Workshop

06/18/2020

Engineering Solutions for the Next Pandemic:
Exploring Ethics Concerns

In collaboration with the American Association of Engineering Education (ASEE) Ethics Division, and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), the National Academy of Engineering Online Ethics Center (OEC) is hosting a series of panel discussions on “Engineering Solutions for the Next Pandemic: Exploring Ethics Concerns.” Through the panel discussions, explore how engineers might prepare for future pandemics, through new engineering solutions developed with the insight and knowledge gained during this current crisis. What will it take to develop future solutions that adhere to fundamental principles and codes of engineering ethics? What can we learn from this situation that can inform engineering education?

Panel 1: Standards of ethics for R&D, infrastructure, and systems during a crisis
June 19, 2:00-3:15PM (Eastern)
To register in advance for this webinar (required):
https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gW2enrh2QTi_L3SrYQbZsg

Panel 2: Ethics of challenge studies, avalanche testing and other approaches to
vaccine development
June 24, 1:00-2:15PM (Eastern)
Register in advance for this webinar (required):
https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OGFctPz6SfawpRFl8F5hwQ

Panel 3: Social (in)justice, disparities in Covid-19 health care delivery
June 26th 4:00-5:15PM (Eastern)
Register in advance for this webinar (required):
Https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OjehYfH-ReSktPENkWfYdQ

For more information on the panels and the panelists, go to https://giesgroups.illinois.edu/cprbs/home/.

Standards of ethics for R&D, infrastructure, and systems during a crisis People are asking FDA and other institutions to “change the rules” because of the extenuating circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. Others would argue that it’s never appropriate to compromise the rules of ethics we hav...

05/20/2020

Read about the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering case competition that the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society helped develop along with the Gies College of Business and Lockheed Martin in Industry Week.

An annual competition fosters critical thinking around technology.