The Verizon Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics

Upcoming Lecture: Goodpaster
Werhane | Gnazzo | Boatright | Brenkert | Moore | White | Johnson | Kidder | Bowie | Daly | Mason | DonaldsonHartmanDe George

The idea of launching a visiting professorship in business ethics and information technology stems from the college's mission. At Bentley, we are educating “the whole person” in an environment that explores business studies with an emphasis on information technology.

Educating the whole person necessarily includes exposing our students to the concepts of ethics. We firmly believe that business ethics will play a critical role
in their future careers. One way in which the center builds their ethical knowledge base and promotes ethical business conduct is by hosting
educational initiatives such as their Verizon Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics and Information Technology.

Through the generous support of Verizon Communications Inc., we are able to advance the center’s work with this unique and valuable professorship.

About Verizon

The Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics and Information Technology at Bentley University is funded with the generous support
of Verizon.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), headquartered in New York, is the global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.  Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving more than 87 million customers nationwide. Verizon’s Wireline operations provide converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network. Wireline also includes Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 235,000 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of more than $97 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com

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February 4, 2013
Kenneth E. Goodpaster
Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics,
University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

February 6, 2012
Globalization and its Challenges for Business in the 21st Century
Patricia Werhane
The Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy,
and Managing Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University
Lecture Flyer

February 7, 2011
The Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer: A Test of Endurance
Patrick J. Gnazzo
Former Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer at CA Technologies and former Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at UTC
Lecture Monograph

February 8, 2010
Ethics of Risk Management in the Information Age
John R. Boatright, PhD
Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., Professor of Business Ethics, Graduate School of Business
Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Business Ethics
Loyola University, Chicago
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture

February 9, 2009
Corporate Control of Information:Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas
George Brenkert, PhD
Director, Georgetown University’s Business Ethics Institute and Professor of Business Ethics, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture

February 11, 2008
Your E-mail Trail: Where Ethics meets Forensics
Jennifer M. Moore, JD, PhD
Member, Epstein Becker & Green P.C.
New York, N.Y.
Lecture Monograph


February 12, 2007
Data, Dollars and the Unintentional Subversion of Human Rights
Thomas I. White, PhD
Hilton Professor of Business Ethics, Director of the Center
for Ethics and Business
Loyola Marymount University
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture


February 13, 2006
Corporate Excellence, Ethics and the Role of IT
Deborah G. Johnson
Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Department Chair,
Department of Science, Technology and Society
University of Virginia
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture


February 7, 2005
Moral Courage, Digital Distrust: Ethics in a Troubled World
Rushworth M. Kidder, PhD
Founder and President
Institute of Global Ethics
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture


March 29, 2004
Information Technology and Intellectual Property
Norman E. Bowie
Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Lecture Monograph
Video of Lecture


March 31, 2003
Reply, Delete ... or Relate? IT’s Human Dimension
Francis J. Daly
Corporate Director, Ethics and Business Conduct
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lecture Monograph


April 1, 2002
Leadership, Ethics, and the Information Imperative
Richard O. Mason
Carr P. Collins Distinguished Professor of Management Information Sciences and Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility
Lecture Monograph


February 5, 2001
Ethics in Cyberspace: Have We Seen This Movie Before?
Thomas Donaldson
Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and
Director of the Wharton Ethics Program
Lecture Monograph


February 28, 2000
Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the Workplace
Laura P. Hartman, PhD
Grainger Chair of Business Ethics
University of Wisconsin
Lecture Monograph


March 22, 1999
Business Ethics and the Information Age
Richard T. De George, PhD
University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
and Business Administration,
Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the
University of Kansas
Lecture Monograph


Sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, through the generous support of Verizon Corporation (formerly Bell Atlantic and NYNEX).

For further information, contact the Center for Business Ethics at telephone: 781.891.2981.

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