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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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  • Ethical Challenges in Business: A Leadership Perspective

    Wed, Mar 28, 2007
    Bill George explores ethical challenges in business from a leadership perspective, offering insights on what can cause leaders to lose their moral bearings. He believes, as do the 125 leaders interviewed for his new book, *True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership*, that leaders succumb to ethical failures and deviations not because of a lack of knowledge or understanding of ethical principles and premises but because they have neglected to develop and ground themselves in five key areas, which serve to locate one's ethical "true north."
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  • Data, Dollars, and Unintentional Subversion of Human Rights

    Mon, Feb 12, 2007
    Thomas White argues that one of the unanticipated consequences of some recent decisions in the IT industry is a disregard for the importance of privacy as a fundamental human right. Given the speed of technological change in the IT industry, it should surprise no one that ethical issues in the industry develop at a brisk pace as well. It should also come as no surprise that, in such a fast-paced environment, decisions made with good intentions may have serious unintended consequences. In each case, companies cite good intentions for their decisions--maximizing profit, operating legally, for example. However, White contends that the explanations that these companies offer for their behavior is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and role of business particularly in a democracy. He also argues that a richer understanding of business will lead to better decisions.
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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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    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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