Corporate Responsibility in America: Tenacity and the Institutional Insight

The Center for Ethics in Business and Goverance at Saint Anselm College presents Dr. Kenneth E. Goodpaster, the Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics - Emeritus University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business, who will discuss three basic convictions behind America's aspirations to uphold relative market freedom for business enterprises in the face of frequent moral failure. These convictions - Checks and Balances, Moral Projection, and Moral Common Ground - help explain the tenacity with which Americans have held on to the idea of "corporate responsibility."

About the Speaker: Kenneth Goodpaster earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame during the 1970s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. In 1990, Goodpaster accepted the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas (MN). Goodpaster served for a number of years as an Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and was Executive Editor of Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience which received the 2014 Academy of Management Best Book Award. His book Conscience and Corporate Culture received generous praise from reviewers. He contributed to Vocation of the Business Leader, issued by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Respect in Action: Applying Subsidiarity in Business.

In 2014, he was named to Ethisphere Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics-and was honored by the Society for Business Ethics for a "Career of Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in the Field of Business Ethics."

Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience will be made available for sale at the event.

This event is part of the Ethics in Governance Forum.