What is the purpose of business? That’s the question Keven Ann Willey, Vice President and page editor of The Dallas Morning News, will answer while speaking on transparency and accountability at this week’s Trust, Ethics & Transparency conference. “We will be discussing what the purpose of business is,” said Willey. “To maximize profits for shareholders? To provide desired goods […]
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The state of trust today across all institutions, whether government, business, media or non-governmental is extremely fragile says Matthew Harrington, CEO and President of Edelman and keynote speaker at this week’s Trust, Ethics & Transparency conference. “In this environment it behooves any organization to make building trust a priority,” said Harrington, “because trust, the belief that […]
Next weeks Ethics, Trust & Transparency conference on the SMU campus just got easier to attend with the announcement that the entire event will be streamed on the web. Every minute of the conference, beginning at 8:20 am, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 will be video streamed free-of-charge on the main page of the Maguire Center’s […]
Register now for the “Ethics, Trust and Transparency” conference scheduled next Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Crum Auditorium at the Jim Collins Executive Center on the SMU campus. At a time when confidence in government and business leaders has been rocked by scandal and questionable decisions it will be both healthy and […]
Early in the week, we are co-sponsoring the Tate-Willson Lectures with the Graduate Program in Religious Studies. Nigel Biggar – Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford – will discuss “Behaving in Public: Christian Ethics in a Polyglot […]
Simon Lee, a medical anthropologist in the Department of Clincial Science at UTSW will be leading a dinner conversation on “Quality of Care and Clinical Trial Recruitment: System Ethics and Disparities in Access.” For more information about the NTBN, click here.
Can American religion develop a realistic appreciation of politics on its own terms, as a task that neither threatens damnation nor promises salvation, but demands continuous, faithful engagement? Professor Robin Lovin — the Maguire Center’s Public Scholar for Fall 2008 — will discuss this on September 24, 2008. For more details, click here.