MUHLENBERG PROMOTES DISCUSSION OF ENRON AND BUSINESS ETHICS
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics and Leadership will sponsor "Understanding the Enron Scandal: The Future of Business Ethics."Tuesday, April 2, 2002 02:30 PM
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics and Leadership will sponsor "Understanding the Enron Scandal: The Future of Business Ethics," Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall. A lecture by Ronald Duska, Ph.D., will be followed by a panel discussion with Muhlenberg faculty members Christopher Borick, political science; Donna Kish-Goodling, economics; and Paula Irwin, accounting. The event is free and open to the public.
Ronald Duska, a specialist in the area of ethical theory and business ethics, holds the Charles F. Lamont Post Chair of Ethics and the Professions and is the Professor of Ethics at The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He is the executive director of the Society for Business Ethics, an international association of academics and practitioners interested in the study of business ethics, which publishes Business Ethics Quarterly. He is currently working on two new books - "The Ethics of Accounting" and "The Next Phase of Integrating Psychology and Ethics." He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where his primary research was in the area of ethical theory.
"Understanding the Enron Scandal: The Future of Business Ethics" is organized in part to increase awareness of how and why the Enron catastrophe occurred. The lecture and discussion will raise issues related to the situation, such as business ethics, the accounting profession and the role of the government. In addition, there will be discussion of potential changes such as the creation of laws and accounting standards to discourage future actions of a similar nature.
