Center for Business Ethics hosts various events where guest speakers from academia and business address timely ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management. Explore our past events below.
SANTIAGO MEJIA | FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Santiago Mejia is an Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University where he has received the Dean’s Awards for Teaching and Research Excellence. His research focused on shareholder primacy and its implications on business ethics as well as the implications of virtue ethics for leadership, management and the future of work. His articles have appeared in Business Ethics Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, the Humanistic Management Journal and the Research Handbook on Corporate Governance and Ethics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago after studying at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Columbia.
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DARYL KOEHN | DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Daryl Koehn is the Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She has published widely in the fields of ethics and corporate governance. Her books include The Ground of Professional Ethics, Living with the Dragon: Thinking and Acting Ethically in a World of Unintended Consequences and the forthcoming Ethics Without Dilemmas. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics and numerous other journals. She consults regularly with major corporations, has been profiled in Time magazine, and has been featured on National Public Radio and PBS. She received her Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the University of Chicago and MBA (Finance) from Northwestern University.
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ABRAHAM SINGER | LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Abraham Singer is Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago and Director of Applied Research at the Loyola Rule of Law Institute.His teaching and research at the intersection of business ethics and political theory addresses themes such as the internal governance of corporations and its relationship to social justice, the ethics of organized labor, and the nature of structural racism in America. His book, The Form of the Firm: A Political Theory of the Corporation, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and his articles have appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Economics & Philosophy, and the Journal of Politics. He received his Ph.D. in politics from the University of Toronto.
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SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018), Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Googlization of Everything -- and Why We Should Worry (University of California Press, 2011). He is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
In 2022 the week’s public events examined Revisiting Ethics and Corporate Culture. Our guests from academia and business discussed how to build ethical business cultures, examining the intersection of ethics and legal compliance.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
2021 Albers Ethics Week featured virtual, keynote events examining COVID-19 and the Future of Responsible Business.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
2020 Albers Ethics Week featured virtual, keynote events examining Ethics, Social Media and Democracy, which discussed the role of technology firms in responding to disinformation and support of the truth.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
2019 Albers Ethics Week featured two keynote events addressing The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the role that new, emergent technologies will have on fairness, social justice and privacy.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
2018 Albers Ethics Week hosted two public events centered on the theme Ethics and Finance: A Decade After Crisis, which looked at the implications of the 2008 financial crisis a decade after its worldwide impact.
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Albers Ethics Week is a unique annual program that hosts dozens of guest speakers from the greater Seattle area business community for an intensive, week-long examination of ethical issues in business. Guests appear in classrooms across the Albers School curriculum, addressing ethical issues in areas such as accounting, finance, data analytics, marketing and human resource management.
2017 Albers Ethics Week also included three keynote events organized around the theme, Opportunity, Diversity and the Future of Employment, and examined the future of work and the corporate commitment to DEI.
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