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UNI Campus Events
These events are held on the University of Northern Iowa Campus. Students, faculty, and the general public are invited to attend.
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| Iowa's Fugitive: Patrick Kuhse's Story | | Information: | Patrick Kuhse, a native of Grundy Center, Iowa, became a key player in a bond trading fraud and was on the run for five years, before turning himself in to serve a five-year prison sentence. His compelling story centers on the errors and failures in thinking that led him down this path. | | Held on: | 10/31/2007 | | | | An Industry Insider Tells About the WorldCom Crash | | Information: | UNI alumnus John Meyers was Controller of Sprint Corporation during an attempted buyout of WorldCom. Regulatory approval was not granted, and a few months later, WorldCom crashed in the biggest corporate financial scandal ever. Join us as John Meyer presents the WorldCom case from his industry insider perspective. | | Held on: | 3/22/2006 | | | | Movie Night: "The Insider" | | Information: | "The Insider," a 1998 film starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, tells the chilling tale of Dr. Jeffrey Wiegand, former Research Director for Brown & Williamson tobacco company, as he struggles with whether to blow the whistle on the tobacco industry. Join us for snacks and soft drinks as we watch excerpts and discuss the issues. Prof. Jerry Sonesen of the Philosophy & Religion Department at UNI will moderate. | | Held on: | 2/6/2006 | | | | Issues in Biomedical Ethics | | Information: | There is no more important issue to Americans today than health care, and the business of health care has a large selection of ethical issues. Join UNI’s own Professor Francis Degnin, Wilson Chair Dr. Donna Wood, and Dr. Stephen Cardamone, Chief Medical Officer of Covenant Health Systems, to learn about current issues in the business of biomedical ethics. | | Held on: | 11/16/2005 | | | | Straight from the Heart: An Iowa Ex-Con Talks Business Ethics | | Information: | From an idyllic boyhood on a Grundy Center farm, to life on the run, to a 5-year federal penitentiary sentence, Patrick Kuhse has learned a thing or two about business ethics. Kuhse was a young stockbroker on the west coast when he became involved in major illegal activities. Now, after years as an international fugitive and more years in a federal penitentiary, Kuhse tells his riveting story and sounds the alarm on the faulty thought processes and decision making skills that can too easily trap the unsuspecting young professional. | | Held on: | 9/12/2005 | | | | Work in Progress: The Intermediate Realms | | Information: | Seminar, sponsored by the Wilson Chair, featuring the book being written by Professor James Robinson on beings of the intermediate realms. | | Held on: | 6/29/2005 | | | | Ethics in Accounting | | Information: | Keynote lecture on business ethics for senior accounting students, MAcc students and accounting faculty, sponsored by McGladrey & Pullen. | | Held on: | 9/9/2003 | | | | Integrity and the Good Life: Bad News/Good News | | Information: | Keynote address at the Matt Parrott Integrity Awards Breakfast in Cedar Falls | | Held on: | 4/4/2003 | | | | Beyond Enron | | Information: | This roll-out event for the David W. Wilson Chair of Ethics featured a full half-day of panel discussions and presentations on the ethical, legal, regulatory, and management issues arising from the Enron and Arthur Andersen crashes. Featured speakers included Senator Charles Grassley, President Robert Koob of UNI, John Meyer of Sprint, Tim Throndsen of PriceWaterhouseCooers, John Sorensen of the Iowa Bankers Association, Professor Norm Bowie of the University of Minnesota, Professor John Mahon of the University of Maine, and Professor Donna Wood of UNI. 850 people attended. | | Held on: | 11/11/2002 | | | | Women in Business | | Information: | This CROW (Current Research on Women) Forum event, sponsored by David W. Wilson Chair in Business Ethics, featured Professor Audrey Murrell of the University of Pittsburgh, who spoke about her research on women managers. | | Held on: | 4/7/2002 | | |
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Off-Campus Events
These events are held at a location away from the University of Northern Iowa Campus. Students, faculty, and the general public are invited to attend.
| Past Events |
| Global Business Ethics | | Information: | Presentation at the 2nd annual Global Business Ethics conference, Bentley College, Waltham, MA | | Held on: | 5/22/2006 | | | | Three Questions on Corporate Social Performance | | Information: | Keynote address given to the Association of Political Economy in Montreal, Canada | | Held on: | 9/1/2004 | | | | What Does Global Business Citizenship Tell Us About Sarbanes-Oxley? | | Information: | Presentation at the conference on "Ethics and Sarbanes-Oxley" at the University of Minnesota; paper subsequently published in the Business and Professional Ethics Journal. | | Held on: | 4/16/2004 | | | | Seminar on Business Ethics | | Information: | Northeast Iowa Grand Slam event, hosted by the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Chambers of Commerce. | | Held on: | 3/6/2003 | | | | World Knowledge Forum: Global Business Ethics | | Information: | Participated in a panel discussion, media interview, industry lecture, and public speech in Seoul, Korea on global business citizenship. | | Held on: | 11/1/2002 | | |
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Private Events
These events are held for specific clubs, businesses, and organizations. They are not open to the public.
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| Ethics and Leadership | | Information: | Presentation at a professional development workshop at the Academy of Management annual meeting. | | Held on: | 8/12/2006 | | | | What Is Wrong With the Golden Rule? | | Information: | Speech given to a luncheon meeting of the Young Professionals Connection, Des Moines | | Held on: | 2/22/2006 | | | | How to Win with Values | | Information: | Full day management seminar for MPDC leadership participants. | | Held on: | 2/8/2006 | | | | The Golden Rule: Good as Gold? | | Information: | Speech to the International Association of Administrative Professionals, Waterloo, Iowa | | Held on: | 10/11/2005 | | | | Transforming Business Citizenship: Experiments in Sustainable Capitalism | | Information: | Presentation at the annual conference of POLITEIA, Milan, Italy | | Held on: | 9/16/2005 | | | | Teaching Business Ethics | | Information: | Presentation given to the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Supper Club on Business Ethics | | Held on: | 9/15/2004 | | | | Taking Stakeholders Seriously | | Information: | Presidential address to the Society for Business Ethics, at the annual meeting in New Orleans | | Held on: | 9/1/2004 | | | | Evaluation and Transparency in Organization-Environment Relations | | Information: | Presentation at the research conference of EBEN, the European Society for Business Ethics, held at the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo. | | Held on: | 6/20/2003 | | | | Conversazzione 4: Global Business Citizenship | | Information: | This three day scholarly conference at UNI on global business practices attracted speakers and participants from across the country and resulted in a special issue of the journal Business and Society Review. | | Held on: | 4/25/2003 | | | | Conversazzione 3: Corporate Reputation | | Information: | This three-day forum for intense research-oriented discussion of business ethics and corporate reputation was co-hosted in Santa Fe, New Mexico by the Wilson Chair, UNI, and the Rust Professorship, University of New Mexico. | | Held on: | 12/1/2002 | | | | What Makes an Ethical Corporation? | | Information: | Presentation on ethical companies to the Waterloo Downtown Rotary Club | | Held on: | 9/16/2002 | | |
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