2008

Tuesday October 21, 2008
Doing Business in Emerging Markets:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Beyond


CSR: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
(CSR) is central to a company whose intention is to follow a higher standard than the law and reaches into the heart of Business Ethics. CSR provides the guidelines for a company to operate according to a standard of respect for the individual and the
community.

CSR guidelines extend beyond the company’s doorstep, its source is deep within the supply chain and extends to the final moments of the product use. How are the employees of the supplier treated? Do they enjoy the freedoms and privileges of a just society? Is the work performed in a dignified and life enriching manner?

Seven foundational principles provide the basis for CSR policy development & are congruent with the United Nations Millennium Project to end world poverty:
1. Dignity of work and rights of workers
2. Preferential option for the poor and powerless
3. Solidarity among peoples
4. Rights of the person
5. Rights of families and communities
6. Human Dignity
7. Stewardship of the environment

AGENDA:

8:15 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM      Welcome Helen T. McCullough, MBA, MS Associate Director Integritas Institute for Ethics

9:00 AM      Albino Barrera, O.P., Ph.D.;  Key Principles of Catholic Social Teaching, and the Ethical Dilemmas of Offshore Outsourcing

10:00 AM    Shelley Stern Grach; Microsoft’s Citizenship Program

11:00 AM    Jonathan Margolis, Ph.D.; Emerging Markets and  CSR

NOON         Panel and Audience Q&A
                 Anthony Pagano, Ph.D.
                 J. Nelson Hoffman

12:45 PM    Adjourn