Chung-Watson Lecture Series on Business Ethics

Past Speakers

2009 - James O'Toole

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2008 - Gil Friend

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Gil Friend was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and played key or founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as EcoNet, GreenLine, the California Office of Appropriate Technnology, and Buckminster Fuller's "World Game".

2007 — Dr. David J. Vogel
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Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and Editor of the California Management Review, presented "The Market for Virtue"
2006 — Michael Crooke
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Founding CEO of Revolution Living and former CEO of Patagonia, presented "The ReEvolution of Business in the 21st Century"

2004 — Chris Laszlo

Partner of Sustainable Value Partners, Inc., presented "The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environmental Performance"

2002 — John McGuinn
Retired Senior Vice President, Bechtel Corporation, presented "Ethical Issues in Today's Business: Some Practical Guidance from a Practitioner"
2001 — Dr. Dennis Moberg

Presidential Professor of Ethics, Santa Clara University, presented "The Ethics of Mentoring"

2000 — Lucy Blake

President of the Sierra Business Council, presented "Building Regional Wealth: Integrating Economy, Community, and the Environment"

1999 — Kenneth L. Fisher

Founder, CEO of Fisher Investments, Inc., presented "Societal Ethics Are Always Unethical"

1997 — Dr. Marc J. Epstein

Price Waterhouse Visiting Professor of Accounting and Control, INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), presented "Measuring, Managing, and Reporting Corporate Environmental Performance"

1995 — Don Baker

President, CEO of BSG Consulting, Inc., presented "Exporting Services World-Wide: Reconciling Values, Culture, and Language"

1994 — Dr. S. Prakash Sethi, Ph.D.

Associate Director of the Center for Management, Baruch College, The City University Of New York, presented "Competitive Markets and Business Ethics: Does Competition Really Keep Business Honest Or Is It the Other Way Around?"

1993 — G. Robert Baechle

Director of the Business Ethics Program, Arthur Anderson & Co. presented "The Anderson Business Ethics Program: Reasons, Results, and Challenges For The Future"

1992 — Dr. Laura Nash

Boston University's School of Management, presented "Is There A New Business Ethic?"

1991 — Robert Coleman

President, CEO of Oxford Energy Company, presented "Corporate Responsibility in the Environmental Arena: The Oxford Experience"

1990 — Dr. Manuel G. Velasquez

Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Dept. of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, presented "Ethics and International Business"

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