Expert on business ethics to speak at Wake Forest’s Calloway School program

The program will be held Sept. 26 at 11 a.m. in the Benson University Center, Room 410. It is free and open to the public.

Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Administration will present “Why Good Managers do Bad Things,” and “Business Ethics and the Challenge of Leadership.” Ronald F. Duska, Charles Lamont Post Chair of Ethics and the Professions at The American College, will moderate the program.

After 30-minute presentations by Freeman and Werhane, Duska will open the program to discussion and questions from the audience.

“It will be a learning experience for everyone to hear what such well-respected professionals have to say about business ethics,” said Donald P. Robin, J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics at the Calloway School. “There is a reason for ethics in business. I hope the importance of it will sink in.”

Freeman is the Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of “Business as a Humanity” and “Business Ethics: The State of the Art.” He is also the co-author of “The Dictionary of Business Ethics” and “The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics” with Werhane, his co-presenter at the Calloway event.

Werhane, Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, is chair of the doctoral program operating committee at the University of Virginia. She is the founding editor and editor emeritus of “Business Ethics Quarterly,” and the author of “Ethical Issues in Business” and “The Ethics of Health Care Organizations.”

The Calloway School’s program is part of Wake Forest University’s Year of Ethics and Honor, a yearlong celebration featuring lectures, symposiums, and other events exploring ethics and honor.