The Ethics and Governance Conference has expanded to address the critical role business schools play in producing leaders who advance responsible and sustainable business worldwide. The new Sustainability Conference will combine ethics, governance, peace through commerce, and responsible global leadership into one event. Learn how your business school can provide real-world learning opportunities to create globally responsible business leaders who make the world a better place.
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Conference Chair

• Carolyn Y. Woo, dean, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Conference topics include:

• Case studies and best practices of sustainable institutions
• The United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), a framework for investing that considers environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) impacts
• Corporate social reporting
• Real-world examples of the "triple bottom line"—business solutions that benefit people, planet, and profit
• The role of business education in addressing ethics and governance issues
• Building a successful sustainability program
   

Keynote Speakers:

Shaping the New Rules of Competition

Sheila Bonini
Consultant
McKinsey & Company

Sheila Bonini is an expert consultant and top 10 author with McKinsey & Company. As one of the leaders of the Business in Society and Regulatory Strategy service line within McKinsey’s Strategy Practice, she has significant experience advising clients across sectors on the impact of social and regulatory issues, including multiple engagements on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, stakeholder management, and regulatory strategy. In this session, Bonini explores the results of the 2007 McKinsey survey of CEOs participating in the UN Global Compact.

CEOs on strategy and social issues

Shaping the New Rules of Competition: UN Global Compact Participant Mirror

Foundations and Framework – Making Sustainability Sustainable

Fred Cohen
Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Fred Cohen, a recently retired PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory partner, now is a consultant to PwC, focusing his efforts on assisting global companies to develop a deeper understanding of their enterprise risks including the impact of climate change and geopolitical risk on business performance and the creation of operations in emerging markets around the world. In this session, Cohen highlights the sustainability reporting challenges for leading global corporations and not-for-profit organizations. The discussion will consider the core elements of the corporate performance management and COSO risk management frameworks as foundations for sustainability reporting, while demonstrating that greater structure and clarity is necessary for sustainability reporting to move from its current state to one where stakeholders can clearly ascribe value to the actions corporations are taking and results being created.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Sustainability Publications

Reflecting Trust and Accountability in Citizenship Reporting

Frank Mantero
Director
Corporate Citizenship Programs
GE Corporation

In his role with the GE Corporation, Frank Mantero is responsible for coordinating the company's global citizenship efforts, developing and managing the company's Citizenship Report, monitoring the company's engagement with stakeholders, and leading the company’s presence on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He has presented on various topics relevant to company’s citizenship efforts, including stakeholder engagement, human rights, CSR strategy and reporting.

The 2007 GE Citizenship Report was recently named by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as one of the world's five most open and honest reports among 2,500 reviewed, including top 10 worldwide for external assurance for the use of a stakeholder report review panel. During this discussion, Montero will guide the audience through GE's citizenship reporting process, how it is integrated with its citizenship strategy and policy development, and how the learning's are applied to subsequent reporting.

GE 2007 citizenship report

Why the Corporate Crime Epidemic Continues and How to Cure It

Neil Weinberg
Senior Editor
Forbes Magazine

Forbes Senior Editor, Neil Weinberg draws on his fifteen years of award-winning reporting, and his book Stolen Without A Gun, to describe the pressures, rationalizations and incentives that drive ordinary workers to commit extraordinary white-collar crimes. He explains how boom-and-bust cycles in financial markets fuel unrelenting bouts of bad corporate behavior. Weinberg also explains why legal initiatives to curb corporate wrongdoing have largely failed and why ethics education initiatives and financial incentives are more effective tools in combating white-collar crime.

A fifteen-year Forbes veteran, he served as the magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief and in 2006 received the Overseas Press Club’s annual award for the best business story in a magazine. Weinberg appears regularly on Forbes on Fox and other television news programs.

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