December 2002 - January 2003

Business ethicist comes to UNF

Richard De George

A nationally known University of Kansas business ethicist will discuss “Ethics, Accountability and Globalization” at a lecture set for Jan. 16 at UNF. Richard T. De George, director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas, will deliver the 7:30 p.m. lecture at the University Center.

De George received his doctorate from Yale University and he has been a research fellow at Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution. He was the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at Santa Clara University in 1986, and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1985. He is the author of over 180 articles and the author or editor of 20 books, including The Ethics of Information Technology and Business (2003); Business Ethics (1999), now in its fifth edition and Competing With Integrity in International Business (Oxford, 1993).

De George has given invited lectures on six continents at a great many universities and keynote addresses to a variety of organizations both here and abroad. He has been a consultant for Motorola, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power and Light, Koch Industries, and General Motors, among others, and is a specialist in international business ethical issues and codes.

The event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Coggin College of Business, and the Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions. It is part of the Ethics Center’s James S. Kemper Lecture Series and Symposium in Globalization and Business Ethics in 2002-2003.
For more information contact the Center at 620-1330 or visit the Center’s website at http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/.