Conferences
A Conference at the University of Notre Dame on "Growing the Good in Business for the Next 100 Years"
MARCH 2022 CONFERENCE POSTPONED
As explained in this letter, the March 2022 conference is postponed until March 2023. We hope to see you there.
As part of Mendoza's 100th anniversary celebrations, we are organizing an academic conference on "Growing the Good in Business for the Next 100 Years." It will take place on Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, 2022. Please mark your calendars!
It begins with an opening dinner on Thursday, March 24, has four panels during the day on Friday, March 25, and closes with a final dinner on the 25th. All events will take place in McKenna Hall.
We will announce more details as the conference nears, but here are some of the confirmed speakers:
1. Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, Dicastery of Human Development (Vatican).
2. Jennifer Scanlon, President and CEO of UL Inc.
3. Sally Blount, former dean of Northwestern/Kellogg and President and CEO of Catholic Charities Chicago.
4. Matthew Slaughter, dean of Dartmouth/Tuck and ND class of '90.
Conference at the University of Notre Dame on April 3rd and 4th, 2016 on "A Global Compact For Sustainable Development. Advancing Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si')."
On April 3-4, 2016, the University of Notre Dame and the UN Global Compact convened a meeting designed to educate students about the role of business in advancing the SDGs and to attract more companies to participate in the endeavor. The theme of the meeting was expressed well by Lise Kingo, the new UN Global Compact Executive Director: “From principled business practices to making long-term commitments aligned with the SDGs, we need more companies around the world to join the UN Global Compact and help to change the world around them.” Leading companies advancing the SDGs will address the meeting with their formula for success.
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Conference on "The U.N. Millennium Development Goals, The Global Compact, and The Common Good."
(March 2011) To advance the vision of business and the common good, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business at the Mendoza College of Business, in partnership with the United Nations Global Compact, and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education convened at a major conference at Notre Dame, titled "The U.N. Millennium Development Goals, The Global Compact, and The Common Good." The conference brought together leading businesses to outline their projects, especially those advancing the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) designed to help alleviate dire poverty. Academics, government officials, and NGO leaders focused on some of the practical as well as the conceptual issues involved.
Conference on Peace Through Commerce
(November 2006) Father Oliver Williams, C.S.C., Director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the United Nations Global Compact Office and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business co-convened at a conference on "Peace Through Commerce". The conference brought together students, professors, corporations, non-government organizations and government leaders to discuss how commerce can be a tool to build peace.
Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries: Sustainability, The New Imperative
(April 2005) Father Oliver Williams, C.S.C., Director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, and Professor Lee Tavis, Director of the Program on Multinational Managers Developing Country Concerns co-convene at a conference on "Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries: Sustainability, The New Imperative".
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Meeting Expections in the World Economy: The United Nations Global Compact
(April 2002) The Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business hosted a conference on the United Nations Global Compact, which is a new initiative intended to increase and diffuse the benefits of global economic development through voluntary corporate policies and actions. Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, addressing the Davos World Economic Forum in January 1999, challenged business leaders to join a “global compact of shared values and principles” and give globalization a human face.
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HIV/AIDS Conference
(April 2002) What are the ethical dimensions of the issue of the access to medicines for those suffering from disease, for example, HIV/AIDS, in developing countries? Has the potential of faith-based groups to facilitate access and care been sufficiently recognized? These and related questions were the focus of the Access to Care and Medicines for the Poor in Developing Countries Conference held April 7 - April 9, 2002, at the University of Notre Dame. Significant leaders from all the major stakeholders were present, including those from governments, advocacy groups, multinational companies, NGO's and others.
Business, Religion and Spirituality
(April 2000) As this movement to integrate spirituality into business and health care continues to grow, what are the moral questions that should guide leaders? Is spirituality being treated as simply an instrumental good, valued for its usefulness in enhancing productivity and well being? What are the responsibilities of business leaders here? Of faculty? Of business schools? Of churches?
Measuring and Managing Ethical Risk: How Investing in Ethics Adds Value
(September 1999). Scholars from economics, finance, philosophy, and law were invited to discuss the sources of ethical conflicts in the firm as well as to analyze case studies such as the Solomon Brothers scandal. The conference explored alternative means of resolving ethical conflicts, including formal methods such as contracts and codes of conduct, and informal methods such as trust.
Global Code of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
(October 1997). We are living in an exciting and challenging era, characterized by what many are calling "globalization." Globalization refers to the integration of international economic activity unheard of in prior times. Not only does it involve unparalleled movements of capital but also of goods and services, technologies, and people. Globalization is perceived as being both a threat and a promise. With this in mind, we are experiencing a growing call for a global ethic. From various parts of the world, proposals are emerging for a new global code of conduct. There is an ever increasing concern that human rights in developing countries be promoted and protected, highlighted in the recent code for the apparel industry. What is the next step in this chorus of activity? Should we try to move toward one global code of conduct? What accountability structures are helpful? Where do we go from here? The Center hosted this conference to explore these and important related themes.
The Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World
(Spring 1996) The Center convened a conference to discuss how literature and films have been major sources of inspiration and stimulus to ethical reflection.
Is the Good Corporation Dead? Social Responsibility in a Global Economy
The Conference resulted from the Center's 1994 symposium which focused on what concepts could replace "social responsibility," how business leaders viewed those developments, and how socially responsible corporations responded to those conditions.