Program Agenda
June 15-17, 2017, at Boston University Questrom School of Business
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Thursday, June 15
12:00pm-5:00pm Site Visits (Optional)
- Aeronaut Brewing (14 Tyler Street, Somerville)
- Bright Horizons (200 Talcott Avenue South, Watertown)
- Boston Harbor Now (Seaport District, Boston)
- Fenway Park (4 Yawkey Way, Boston)
- Panera Cares (3 Center Plaza, Boston)
5:00pm-7:30pm Registration and Welcome Reception
Hotel Commonwealth, 528 Commonwealth Avenue
Friday, June 16
All events at BU Questrom, 595 Commonwealth Avenue
8:00am-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am-9:30am Introductions and Acknowledgements
9:30am-10:30am “Is It Profitable to Persuade with Purpose?”
- Fred Foulkes (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
- Tobias Barker (CVS Minute Clinic)
- Sarah Burnett (Panera Bread)
10:30am-10:45am Break
10:45am-12:00pm: Concurrent Sessions A
Session A.1: Values, Culture, and Trust
- “Ethics under Pressure?”: John Cary (Marist College); Pablo Rivas (Marist College)
- “The Ethics of Intracorporate Behavioral Ethics”: Todd Haugh (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business)
- “A Typology of Confucian Values, Ethics and Culture: Implications for Management”: Abhijit Roy (University of Scranton); Pallab Paul (University of Denver); Mousumi Roy (University of Connecticut)
Session A.2: Corporate Social Responsibility I
- “How to Integrate Corporate Social Responsibility in Multinational Enterprises?”: Laurence Vigneau (Newcastle University); Michael Humphreys (University of Durham); Jeremy Moon (Copenhagen Business School)
- “The Landscape and Historical Imprints in the Utilization of Business Ethics Vocabulary”: Ying Liu (Boston University)
- “Does it Matter Whether Corporations Are Part of the Basic Structure of Society?”: Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania)
Session A.3: Publishing in Business Ethics Journals Today (practitioner panel)
- Bruce Barry (Editor in Chief, Business Ethics Quarterly)
- Chris Cowton (Past Editor, Business Ethics: A European Review, 2004-2013)
- Robert Frederick (Editor, Business and Society Review)
- Julie A. Nelson (Editor, Economics and Business Ethics Section of the Journal of Business Ethics and Past Associate Editor, Feminist Economics)
- Laura Pincus Hartman, moderator (Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy)
Session A.4: Benefit Corporations in the Global Economy (practitioner panel)
- Peter Coffin (Breckinridge Capital Advisors)
- Daryl Koehn (DePaul University)
- David Steingard (Saint Joseph’s University)
- Chris Schaffner (Green Engineer, Inc.)
12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch and Discussion
1:30pm-2:45pm “When Good People Do Bad Things”
Professor Francesca Gino (Harvard Business School)
2:45pm-3:00pm Break
3:00pm-4:15pm Concurrent Sessions B
Session B.1: Pushing the Edge
- “Breaking the Law Under Competitive Pressure”: Rob Hughes (University of Pennsylvania)
- “Risky Pay and the Global Financial Crisis: Who’s Responsible?”: Jeff Moriarty (Bentley University)
- “Encountering Ethics at the Limits of Codes of Practice”: Peter Edward (Newcastle University Business School)
Session B.2: The Role of Corporations in Society
- “Are Compassionate Use Programs Obligatory?”: Michael Buckley (City University of New York, Lehman College); Collin O’Neil (City University of New York, Lehman College)
- “Hybrid Entities and the Psychological Contract with Employee-Stakeholders”: Norman Bishara (Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan)
- “Creating Enduring Economic and Social Value through Impact Focused Organizations”: Eduardo Tugendhat (Palladium)
Session B.3: Business-University Collaboration to Advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (practitioner panel)
- Moderator: Mark Meaney (UN Global Compact: PRME Chapter for North America)
4:15pm-4:30pm Break
4:30pm-5:45pm Concurrent Sessions C
Session C.1: Corporate Social Responsibility II
- “Organizational Responses to Societal Moral Hazards: A Moderating Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility”: Qinqin Zheng (Fudan University)
- “Adaptation or Imprinting: Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in an Emerging Economy”: Ying Liu (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
- “Beyond Marginal Logic: Innovating for Socio-Ecological Change”: Gastón de los Reyes (George Washington University School of Business); Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW, University of Applied Sciences, Vienna)
Session C.2: Entrepreneurship and Ethics
- “Buddhism and Time Allocation in New Venture of Chinese Entrepreneurs”: Zuhui Xu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics); Zhiyang Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics); Zhao Zhou (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
- “When Family Firms Go Bad”: Claudia Gabbioneta (Newcastle University); Royston Greenwood (University of Alberta); Luca Gnan (University of Tor Vergata, Roma)
- “Institutional Entrepreneurship: The Case of Certified Ethical Markets”: Kristin Sippl (Harvard Business School)
Session C.3: Building a Culture of Trust (Including the Asian Experience) (interactive session)
- Marc Cohen (Seattle University)
Session C.4: Identifying and Addressing Inherent Bias
- Renée Salazar (University of Texas Austin)
- Astha Singhal (Boston University Goldman School of Dentistry)
- Remi Trudel (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
5:45pm-6:00pm Break
6:00pm-7:30pm Networking Reception
Saturday, June 17
All events at BU Questrom, 595 Commonwealth Avenue
8:30am-9:30am Continental Breakfast
9:30am-10:45am “International Ethical and Legal Framework for Medical Product Development: Is There Room for Improvement?”
- Moderator: Jonathan Woodson (Boston University Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy)
10:45am-11:00am Break
11:00am-12:15pm Concurrent Sessions D
Session D.1: Corporations and Environmental Pressures
- “Making Sense of Long-Term Benefits in a Short-Term-Oriented Environment”: Luca Sabini (Newcastle University Business School)
- “How Companies and Organizations Use a Sales Ethics Approach to Succeed in Modern Markets”: Alberto Aleo (Passodue); Alice Alessandri (Passodue)
Session D.2: Risk, Governance, and Reform
- “Health Care Reform as a Prism Through Which to View Business Philosophies”: David Jacobs (Morgan State University)
- “Nonconsequentialism and the Permissibility of Risk Imposition”: Nien-hê Hsieh (Harvard University); Rosemarie Monge (University of St. Thomas)
- “The Practitioner’s Point of View: Influencing Behavior within a Company”: Andrew Reisman (Ernst & Young LLP)
Session D.3: Food Sustainability (practitioner panel)
- David Frank (Aramark)
- Rita Alison (Aramark)
Session D.4: Corporate Social Responsibility III
- How Does CSR Influence Innovation along the Value Chain?: A Case Study on Hainan Airlines: Hao Chen (Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management)
- Strategic Determinants of Business Group CSR: Anish Sugathan (Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad)
- Carbon Disclosures, Carbon Outsourcing, and Firm Performance: K. Kathy Dhanda (Sacred Heart University); Mahfuja Malik (Sacred Heart University)
