Baruch’s Center for Corporate Integrity to Host Three Speaking Events Open to General Public
Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business has posted an incredible line-up of events for the month of September. Organized by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, these sessions cover a range of topics including Wal-Mart’s global supply chain, trust in corporate America, and NYC bike sharing programs and are open to the general public with mandatory pre-registration.
On September 12, Baruch’s Distinguished Professor of Management, S. Prakash Sethi, will speak about “The World of Wal-Mart” from 12:45pm to 2:15pm. Professor Sethi will look at the working conditions for Wal-Mart’s lowest-wage employees who often work in dangerous, inhumane working conditions. He will discuss the ethics of those conditions while also looking at disturbing recurrence of Wal-Mart’s global supply chain. Lunch and official registration begin at 12:00pm. The event takes place at 55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-220.
On September 16, 6:30pm to 8pm at Baruch’s Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th Street, Room 750, The Conference Board, Inc.’s President and CEO Jonathan Spector will speak about “Trust in Business: How Can American Businesses Help Move the Economy Forward?”. The purpose of Spector’s discussion is twofold: first, he will discuss how Americans have lost confidence and trust in corporate America and what steps can be taken to rebuild trust and boost the economy in the process. Second, Spector will address the fact that The Conference Board, Inc. plans to reopen communication with news media outlets, discussing new findings, but not sharing economic data that might sway the market.
Finally, on September 17 also at Baruch’s Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th Street, Room 750, from 6:15pm to 8pm, a panel of experts weigh in on “Ride On: NYC’s CitiBike Share Program.” CitiBike has been a hugely successful program in NYC since it launched in May 2013. The program boasts 65,000 annual members whose daily rides have increased from 6,000 in May to 40,000 in July. Panelists Justin Ginsburg, Project Director of Alta Bicycle Share, Charles Komanoff, Komanoff Energy Associates, John Orcott, the Policy Director of NYC Department of Transportation, and Jon Sellman, the VP of Marketing and Advertising at CitiBike Share Lead will discuss whether the bike sharing program truly benefits New York City as a whole or just the relatively small number of residents and tourists who use the program.
The Baruch College’s Center for Corporate Integrity events should prove to be enormously insightful for interested residents, local professionals, and Zicklin MBA students as well.
