About

The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research was established in 1997. The mission of the Center is to sponsor and disseminate leading edge research on critical topics in business ethics. It provides students, educators, business leaders, and policy makers with research to meet the ethical, governance, and compliance challenges that arise in complex business transactions. The Zicklin center supports research that examines those organizational incentives and disincentives that promote ethical business practices, along with the firm-level features, processes, and decision making associated with failures of governance, compliance, and integrity.

The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3730 Walnut Street
Room 668 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

Director: Thomas Donaldson
Associate Director: Lauretta Tomasco

Email: zicklincenter@wharton.upenn.edu
Tel: 215.898.1166
Fax: 215.573.2006

EVENTS

►2011-2012 ►2010-2011 ►2009-2010 ►2008-2009 ►2007-2008 ►2006-2007 ►2005-2006 ►2004-2005

Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
January 2012 February 2012	Corporations and Citizenship Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism National Constitution Center, Philadelphia The 5th annual Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism seeks to support faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate research, seminars, and lectures pertinent to the theme of the year. This year theme of "Corporations and Citizenship" gives insight into the civic responsibilities of corporations in modern democratic societies, both here and abroad. The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism (DCC) is designed to build on the University's established strengths in pursuit of these scholarly goals. Its Faculty Workshop Series and Spring Conference on annual themes will result in publications of cutting-edge scholarship on topics of public and scholarly significance. The DCC Postdoctoral Fellowship, the DCC Graduate Fellowships and Graduate Workshop, and the DCC Undergraduate Research Grants will involve younger scholars at all levels and their faculty mentors in the fresh thinking and research demanded by the challenges and the opportunities that the spread of citizenship in constitutional democracies poses today.
December 16, 2011	Corporate Social Responsibility The objective of this event is to share the experiences of Corporate Social Responsibility at the international level as well as initial thoughts on the activities emerging from the collaboration between the Darbari Seth Block and the World Bank on Corporate Social Responsibility.
November 15, 2011	Zicklin Center Seminar Series Two major pieces of legislation were enacted in 2002 purportedly in response to the Enron collapse: the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Corporate Accountability. This was one of many occasions in legislative history when an incident was invoked as proof of systemic problems—here, in campaign finance and in corporate financial disclosures—to pave the way for pre-existing reform initiatives. In this regard, Enron became less salient as a corporate bankruptcy and more salient as a political scandal.
October 22-24, 2011	Zicklin Center helps organize "Responsible Investor's Day" for Middle Eastern business owners and executives in Muscat, Oman In conjunction with the International Institute for Family Enterprises (IIFE), The Zicklin Center has organized a “Responsible Investor’s Day” as part of the annual Owners Forum Middle East 2011, to be held October 22-24 at the Al Bustan Palace, Muscat, Oman. The focus of the day (one of two full days at the conference) will be on creating sustainable long-term business behavior and responsible investments in and from the Middle East. Anyone interested in attending should contact Paul Dietze, Managing Director of the Owners forum. Click here for more information.
Friday, October 28, 2011	Index of Corporate Political Accountability The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Zicklin Center and the Center for Political Accountability are hosting a workshop regarding the unveiling of a new annual index of corporate political accountability. This event will begin at 10:30 a.m. in room 245 in Jon M. Huntsman Hall.
September 15th, 2011	Corporations and Citizenship Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism National Constitution Center, Philadelphia The 5th annual Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism seeks to support faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate research, seminars, and lectures pertinent to the theme of the year. This year theme of "Corporations and Citizenship" gives insight into the civic responsibilities of corporations in modern democratic societies, both here and abroad.
Summer 2011
June 2011	Development of a Business Ethics Curriculum in Russia Moscow, Russia In conjunction with the Center for Business Ethics (a national NGO in Russia) and a group of universities lead by the Institute of Finance and Economics,Professor Phil Nichols and a group of Russian economists will be researching and developing a business ethics curriculum for business/economics schools in Russia.
June 28-30, 2011	XII International Conference on History of Management Thought and Business Social Responsibility of Business and Management Ethics Lomonosov Moscow State University It has become a tradition for Russian and foreign theorists and practitioners of management to take part in annual international conferences on the History of Management Thought and Businesses, held by Moscow State University in order to discuss various important issues. This conference will focus on problems social responsibility of business and management ethics.