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CCI Past Activities
Up one levelSustainability 2.0: Envisioning Business and the Urban Environment (151 E. 25th Street (between Lexington and Third Aves., Room 750, from November 06, 2009 - 09:00AM to November 06, 2009 - 02:00PM)
What will the business environment be like as we approach the mid-21st Century? Why discuss this topic in the first place? Why discuss it now when companies struggle to survive the severe economic downturn? What about water, power, and the very buildings companies occupy? The answers to these questions are the subject of the next chapter in sustainable business. Planning must begin now if cities of 25, 50, or even 100 million can provide a hospitable environment -- water, power, information infrastructure, buildings -- for business. Partnerships and collaboration among business, government, communities, and technology experts hold the key to these challenges. Experts from these fields come together on November 6 at Baruch College to discuss how they are meeting the challenge by envisioning the future.
The World of Green Finance - POSTPONED (T.B.D., from October 27, 2009 - 12:30PM to October 27, 2009 - 02:30PM)
***PLEASE NOTE: This program has been POSTPONED to the spring semester 2010. Please check back for a notice of the new date in the near future****
American Justice for Sale? Corporate Dollars in Judicial Election Campaigns (151 E. 25th St. (between Lex. and 3rd Aves.), Rm 750, from September 17, 2009 - 04:30PM to September 17, 2009 - 08:00PM)
“American Justice for Sale?” consists of two panels and is directed toward a business professional audience. Panel I will provide an overview of judicial elections and issues that can arise from campaign contributions in these elections. Panel II will detail how corporations respond to these ethical challenges. This program is sponsored by the Center for Political Accountability and the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at Wharton. Thank you to the David Berg Foundation for making this program possible.
Baruch College/NIRI NY Proxy Reform Panel (151 E. 25th Street (between Lexington and Third Aves., Room 750, from July 27, 2009 - 05:30PM to July 27, 2009 - 08:00PM)
The SEC has proposed a major reform to proxy access rules related to dissident shareholders. With the comment deadline set for August 17, public companies must decide what do to in response and when. This proxy reform panel, involving leaders from several major industry associations whose members are impacted by both recent and proposed new rules, will help educate attendees on this important issue.
2009 Professor Sam Dyckman Tax Lecture (Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, from June 24, 2009 - 09:00AM to June 24, 2009 - 05:00PM)
Join us for a 2008 - 2009 fiscal year tax update with Professor Sam Dyckman. 8 CPE credits are available for this program.
5th Annual XBRL Conference: XBRL and Emerging Equity Research Technologies (Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, from May 12, 2009 - 03:00PM to May 12, 2009 - 06:30PM)
The use of XBRL—or eXtensible Business Reporting Language— has been mandated by the SEC for the largest companies in the country beginning in June. It is also fast becoming the new standard for the exchange of research reports, having been adopted by the RIXML research consortium and by global brokers in 2008. This free industry event will explore and demonstrate the use of XBRL in equity research and other emerging research technologies such as internet data mining, financial community blogs, RSS news feeds, and new quantitative analysis investment strategies. The program is brought to you by NYSSA’s Improved Corporate Reporting Committee and the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
Ethics and Finance Town Hall: We Got What We Deserved (Newman Library Building, Room 750, from May 07, 2009 - 12:45PM to May 07, 2009 - 02:30PM)
View the current financial crisis through the prism of ethics with three elite former financial executives and Baruch College alumni! Edward Zinbarg ('54), an author, religion scholar, and former Executive Vice-President of Prudential Insurance Company, will begin by illustrating the vision of an ethical marketplace as seen by the world’s great religions. Sharing from personal experience, Arthur Zeikel ('54), former Chairman, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Asset Management, will then discuss how one can attempt to install an ethical culture within an organization. Larry Zicklin ('57), former Managing Partner and later Chairman of the Board of Neuberger Berman, will follow by detailing how we all got what we deserved by not ensuring our financial institutions were instilled with the proper ethos. The panel will be open to questions from the audience. Funding for this program is graciously provided by the David Berg Foundation.
The 8th Annual Financial Reporting Conference (Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, from April 30, 2009 - 08:15AM to April 30, 2009 - 05:15PM)
This day long conference serves as a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
Greenwashing: The Realities of Promoting Green Business Practices in the Corporate World (Newman Conference Center, Room 7-50, from April 03, 2009 - 08:30AM to April 03, 2009 - 02:00PM)
This event addressed how corporations have responded to the public call for businesses to act in ways that are environmentally friendly. The main area of discussion was the practice of “greenwashing,” whereby companies claim that their business practices are less harmful to the environment than the competition’s or, at least, less harmful than they have been in the past. Since greenwashing is largely a marketing ploy, its critics -- among them journalists, activists, scientists and politicians -- have responded with their own public relations campaigns, pointing out the flaws and inconsistencies in the corporations’ self-portrayals. Further, government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and various state and local regulators have attempted to impose standards which would evaluate claims of corporate environmentalism.
Let's Talk Ethics: The Student Recruiter's Perspective (Newman Vertical Campus, Room 3-165, from March 26, 2009 - 12:30PM to March 26, 2009 - 02:15PM)
Join senior recruiters and subject matter experts to discuss the importance of ethics and integrity in the recruiting and candidate selection process. This program is part of Baruch College Ethics Week 2009 and is presented in conjunction with the NASBA Center for the Public Trust. Funding is graciously provided by the David Berg Foundation.