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Workshops for Ethics in Business (GPI Program)

Devin T. Stewart

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The Carnegie Council's Workshops for Ethics in Business (WEB) is a one-of-a-kind forum that brings top corporations and NGOs together in a civilized setting to share innovative ideas for addressing ethical issues related to globalization.

Inspired by Booz & Company's concept of "megacommunities," or multi-stakeholder engagement, and Georgetown professor Pietra Rivoli's notion that civilization advances through the positive interaction between civil society and business, the luncheon workshops aim to fill a vacuum in corporate training, business schools, and organizational leadership. To this end, the Carnegie Council is creating a series of accessible case studies in applied ethics.

The goal is to provide examples of best practices that help address stubborn ethical problems that organizations face. The world's best companies have enjoyed success partly because their competitive management systems deal with these problems globally, while their less successful competitors have been dealing with them on an ad hoc basis. Meanwhile, internal change agents have expressed the need for outside pressure for corporate reform.

Each workshop produces podcasts, summaries, and lists of related organizations and biographies. Starting in the 2008 program year, the meetings will also yield videos of interviews for teaching and training. By presenting these resources to companies and business schools, the Council can help strengthen the ethical component of management systems, having a potentially dramatic positive impact on corporate reform. These workshops are open to the public, and attract an engaged and motivated audience of leaders of business, consulting, finance, governments, media, and NGOs.

Previous workshops include:

• Rise of the Rest III: Climate Change, Energy, and Global Governance after the Financial Crisis
  3/9/10 with Craig Charney, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Parag Khanna, David C. Speedie, Devin T. Stewart, and Stephen B. Young



• Global Jobs Update: Assessing the Quality and Pace of Recovery
  2/18/10 with David Arkless, David Denoon, Maria Jepsen, and Raymond Torres



• Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2010
  1/13/10 with Ian Bremmer, Georg Kell, Art Kleiner, Thomas Stewart, and Michele Wucker



• Sustainable Branding: A U.S.-Japan Corporate Dialogue
  9/17/09 with Max Cuellar, Carol Holding, Scott Kaufman, Edward J. Lincoln, Michael Mendenhall, and Peter David Pedersen
  


• Climate Change, Global Responsibilities, and the U.S.-China Relationship
  8/29/09 with Chris Brown, Nikhil Chandavarkar, Josh Eisenman, Evan O'Neil, Joel Rosenthal, Orville Schell, David Speedie, Devin Stewart, and Michael Zhao
  


• Forced to Labor: The Cost of Coercion
  5/14/09 with Robert Moossy, Roger Plant, and Maria Suarez
  
  
• Restoring Trust in the Global Financial System
  4/9/09 with Thomas Donaldson, Neal Flieger, Seamus McMahon, and Christian Menegatti
  


• Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2009
  1/13/09 with Eurasia Group, World Policy Institute, Booz & Company, and Booz & Company's strategy+business magazine.
  
  
• Health as a Human Right: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities
  12/2/08 with Christian Barry, Meg Boulware, Laura Herman, Maggie Kohn, Rohit Malpani, and Lisa Oldring
  
  
• Advancing Corporate Citizenship in the Media
  10/17/08 with Geoffrey Heal, Devin T. Stewart, and Scott Walker
  
  
• Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility?
  10/3/08 with John C. Abell, James Farrar, Gerhard Pohl, Steve A. Rochlin, Devin T. Stewart, and Andrew Zolli
  
  
• The Rise of the Rest: How the Ascent of Russia and China Affects Global Business and Security
  7/1/08 with Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Harry Harding, Flynt Leverett, and David C. Speedie
  
  
• Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games
  5/16/08 with Ian Buruma, Robert L. Corcoran (GE), Thomas Crampton, Qi Qianjin, and Minky Worden
  
  
• Cyberethics: Private Money, the Media, and Political Influence
  4/3/08 with New American Foundation and others
  
  
• Responsible Profit: Climate Change and the Green Economy
  11/2/07 with Booz Allen Hamilton, RSA, Deutsche Bank, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
  
  
• Innovations in Fighting Corruption: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Who Is Accountable
  9/24/07 with AccountAbility, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and the World Bank
  
  
• Taking Stock of Business and Human Rights: Policies and Practices
  3/22/07 with BP, General Electric, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, and Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
  

SPONSORS AND PARTICIPANTS:

LEAD SPONSORS
Booz & Company
ClearWorld Energy
Hewlett-Packard
Merck & Co., Inc.

MAJOR SPONSORS
International Labour Organization
SAP (Systems Applications and Products)

ACADEMIC PARTNER
New York University's Center for Global Affairs:

OTHER PARTICIPANTS

	AccountAbility			BP			Business Civic Leadership Center
	The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre			General Electric			The George Washington University
	Human Rights Watch			Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility			Lockheed Martin
	New America Foundation			The Nixon Center			Oxfam America
	Realizing Rights			RGE Monitor			The Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
	Salon.com			WNYC - NY Public Radio			The World Bank

For more information on WEB and on sponsorship opportunities, contact: GPI Program Director Devin Stewart: mailto:dstewart?subject=Workshops%20for%20Ethics%20in%20Business

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