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Ensuring Integrity: The 14th Annual Audit Conference[L]
Building Business Bridges: Urban-Rural Food Dynamics[L]
XBRL Investor Forum 2019: Driving Actionable Analytics[L]
Artificial Intelligence for Good: How Entrepreneurs are Using AI for the Right Reasons[L]
The Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures: Forensic Accounting: The New Normal?[L]
NYC Climate Mobilization Act Opportunities and Risks[L]

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The 18th Annual Financial Reporting Conference This daylong conference serves as a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board. This year’s keynote speaker will be Kathleen Hamm, Board Member, PCAOB. May 2, 2019

Uniting for Impact: How Can we Integrate Sustainability, Resiliency, and Circularity Efforts to Achieve Shared Climate Goals?

In the face of floods and fire, heat and cold waves, cities and industry must redouble their efforts to face the consequences of climate change. How can professionals, municipalities and industries work together to unite efforts in these three areas to more effectively face the urgent challenges of climate change? For too long these issues have been addressed in silos. What are the social implications and human impacts of climate change that we can incorporate more fully into these disciplines? How would a Green New Deal link these efforts, as we rebuild our legacy infrastructure and systems?

April 16, 2019

Can the Market Fix the Market? Purpose Driven Movements in Latin America

B Corporations are nonprofit organizations that developed in the United States and Canada in 2006 with the goal of redefining the meaning of success in business: to solve social and environmental problems through products and services, thus using business as a force for good.

April 15, 2019

Creating a Practical Dynamic and Innovation Approach to Business Ethics

Fraud, corruption, compromised institutional integrity, poverty, discrimination, social polarization, low trust levels, populist political agendas – all these issues beset different parts of the world. In South Africa, they are especially urgent, dramatic and intense. Failure to address them threatens the success of business and the country.

April 4, 2019

Humans, Algorithms, and Ethics? (Baruch College Ethics Week)

The use of learning algorithms has grown dramatically in recent years and businesses have been quick to realize the monetization potential of big data analysis and automation. Algorithms are used in crucial decision-making points, such as to sway hiring and admission decisions, set insurance premium rates, and even inform judicial rulings. In a data-driven world, a lot can go wrong: Algorithmic decision-making could result in errors, bias, manipulation, and the risk of perpetuating social injustices.

March 19, 2019

Spotlight on Design Innovation in Circular Economy

Design professionals in architecture, fashion, and packaging will share their solutions to reduce construction waste through design innovation; track clothing throughout its lifecycle through technological advances, and prevent plastic pollution of our oceans through edible single-use packaging.

March 6, 2019

The Ethical Dangers of Politically Motivated Philanthropy in Higher Education

The February 5th Marxe Issues program, co-sponsored by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at the Zicklin School of Busienss, will focus on why universities and colleges must carefully monitor their donor base to avoid politically or ideologically driven philanthropy from seeking unethical influence on college campuses

February 5, 2019

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The 18th Annual Financial Reporting Conference	This daylong conference serves as a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board. This year’s keynote speaker will be Kathleen Hamm, Board Member, PCAOB.	May 2, 2019
Uniting for Impact: How Can we Integrate Sustainability, Resiliency, and Circularity Efforts to Achieve Shared Climate Goals?	In the face of floods and fire, heat and cold waves, cities and industry must redouble their efforts to face the consequences of climate change. How can professionals, municipalities and industries work together to unite efforts in these three areas to more effectively face the urgent challenges of climate change? For too long these issues have been addressed in silos. What are the social implications and human impacts of climate change that we can incorporate more fully into these disciplines? How would a Green New Deal link these efforts, as we rebuild our legacy infrastructure and systems?	April 16, 2019
Can the Market Fix the Market? Purpose Driven Movements in Latin America	B Corporations are nonprofit organizations that developed in the United States and Canada in 2006 with the goal of redefining the meaning of success in business: to solve social and environmental problems through products and services, thus using business as a force for good.	April 15, 2019
Creating a Practical Dynamic and Innovation Approach to Business Ethics	Fraud, corruption, compromised institutional integrity, poverty, discrimination, social polarization, low trust levels, populist political agendas – all these issues beset different parts of the world. In South Africa, they are especially urgent, dramatic and intense. Failure to address them threatens the success of business and the country.	April 4, 2019
Humans, Algorithms, and Ethics? (Baruch College Ethics Week)	The use of learning algorithms has grown dramatically in recent years and businesses have been quick to realize the monetization potential of big data analysis and automation. Algorithms are used in crucial decision-making points, such as to sway hiring and admission decisions, set insurance premium rates, and even inform judicial rulings. In a data-driven world, a lot can go wrong: Algorithmic decision-making could result in errors, bias, manipulation, and the risk of perpetuating social injustices.	March 19, 2019
Spotlight on Design Innovation in Circular Economy	Design professionals in architecture, fashion, and packaging will share their solutions to reduce construction waste through design innovation; track clothing throughout its lifecycle through technological advances, and prevent plastic pollution of our oceans through edible single-use packaging.	March 6, 2019
The Ethical Dangers of Politically Motivated Philanthropy in Higher Education	The February 5th Marxe Issues program, co-sponsored by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at the Zicklin School of Busienss, will focus on why universities and colleges must carefully monitor their donor base to avoid politically or ideologically driven philanthropy from seeking unethical influence on college campuses	February 5, 2019

2018

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Ensuring Integrity: The 13th Annual Audit Conference	The conference provides a forum for interaction between business, public accounting, academics, and policy setters from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). It also examines the current best practices of ethics and independence within the auditing profession. The conference is organized in partnership with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s Center for the Public Trust.	December 4, 2018
XBRL Investor Forum 2018: Powering FinTech	Blockchain, alternative data, automation through standards, legislative and regulatory changes. These are all trends and developments affecting the capital markets today. Data factors into all of these areas and is driving the financial systems of tomorrow. This half-day forum provides practical information on today’s data ecosystem, how you can leverage it, and where it’s going in the future.	November 8, 2018
Cyber Security Advice for Entrepreneurs	The Lawrence N. Field Center and The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity cordially invites you to an exclusive workshop with two C-Suite executives, with the topic on how new businesses can learn to protect themselves in an increasingly digital environment. Hear from Edward Amoroso, Founder and CEO of TAG Cyber, and David Ortiz, the Chief Information Security Officer at Bed Bath and Beyond. They will discuss the consumer perspective and their needs to be protected by business practices implemented.	October 30, 2018
Inter-Company Collaboration to Advance Sustainability Goals	Join us to hear experts and leaders discuss how and why cultivating cross company collaboration in sustainability will help your company, and our future.	October 24, 2018
Act or Be Acted Upon: Revolutionizing the Accounting Curriculum Using Experiential Data Analytics	Join the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy as we welcome Vernon J. Richardson, professor of Accounting and the G. William Glezen Distinguished Chair of Accounting at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. While the mounds of data proliferate and the capabilities of machines increasingly do much of the accounting work, the role of the accountant is changing, potentially in a dramatic way.	October 22, 2018
The New Story of Business: Capitalism in the 21st Century	A quiet revolution is sweeping the business landscape. The old story of business is slowly changing. There are many suggestions for a more human centered version of capitalism, such as conscious capitalism, inclusive capitalism, impact investing, socially responsible investing, etc. And there is renewed interest around the world in older ideas such as corporate social responsibility and sustainability. However these changes settle out, there are a number of key principles that are important. This program will focus on these principle that undergird this new story of business that is emerging. The principles include the importance of purpose, values and ethics, stakeholders, a more robust understanding of business as embedded in society, and a more complex idea of the human beings who are engaged in business.	October 11, 2018
Corporate Political Spending	The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity has invited three experts on the intersection of politics and business to discuss the increasing entanglement of these two sectors of society and the possibly devastating effects it might have on some of our most important institutions.	October 3, 2018
Climate Week 2018 – Institutionalizing Climate Change into Decision-Making	Climate change already impacts how the world around us functions, and it will increasingly continue to do so well into the future. Successful organizations will design programs and products, build cities and infrastructure, and run businesses and institutions with an eye toward planning and preparing for prospective and likely changes to climate norms.	September 26, 2018
The 17th Annual Financial Reporting Conference	This daylong conference serves as a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board…	May 3, 2018
The Positive and Negative Impacts of Entrepreneurial Ventures	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we welcome Dr. Brent Goldfarb to discuss the positive and negative impacts of entrepreneurial ventures…	April 26, 2018
HSBC Student Series on Ethics and Accountability welcomes Dan Bross	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we welcome Daniel Bross for the Spring 2018 HSBC Student Series on Ethics and Accountability…	April 17, 2018
Taming the Rogues of Wall Street	Baruch College’s Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity welcomes veteran risk, compliance, and governance specialist Andrew Waxman to campus on March 22, 2018. Mr. Waxman will be joined by Professor Larry Zicklin (’57) for a lunchtime discussion of Waxman’s award winning book…	March 22, 2018
Big Data and Ethics	About the program: The conference provides a forum for interaction between business, public accounting, academics, and policy setters from the American Insti…	Mar 15, 2018

2017

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Ensuring Integrity: The 12th Annual Audit Conference	About the program: The conference provides a forum for interaction between business, public accounting, academics, and policy setters from the American Insti…	Nov 28, 2017
Investor Forum 2017: Smart Data, Better Results	Smart analysts and investors leverage structured data to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase the accuracy of analysis. This half-day forum provides practical information about where you can get structured data on US and non-US data, and on who’s using this data today.	Nov 01, 2017
Giving Voice To Values: The “How” of Business Ethics	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we welcome Mary C. Gentile for the Fall 2017 HSBC Student Series on Ethics and Accountability.	Oct 31, 2017
The Conceptual Framework and FASB’s Future Agenda	Join the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy as we welcome Christine Ann Botosan, Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for the Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lecture in Accounting.	Oct 23, 2017
Don’t Look Back: The Harvard Business School’s Inadvertent Influence on American Business	Drawing from the research behind his bestselling book, “The Golden Passport”, McDonald traces the roots of the philosophical shifts that changed Harvard’s Business School’s trajectory, and demonstrates how the combination of unintended consequences and inadvertent influence has reverberated throughout American – and global – business to this very day.	Oct 12, 2017
The Circular Economy – Building a Vision for Circular New York City	Join RZCCI, SPN and NYCEDC as our panel of leaders in the built environment, fashion, real estate construction, and sustainable community development discuss emerging circular models already in use in New York City, and best practices from around the world that will shape the circular city of the future.	Oct 11, 2017
Inside the “Green Rush”	Join Robert as he describes the progression from “How hard could this be? It’s a weed!”, to facing surprising challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities, until finally a successful company emerged. It’s a business like no other, join us to find out why.	Oct 05, 2017
Learning to Play in the Sandbox: Cooperating for Climate Resilience	This panel discussion will bring together representatives from various sectors – the different kids in the sandbox – in order to elicit a better understanding of their unique needs, the incentives and rewards that motivate them and the ways they operate and think. The aim is to formulate some principles from which we may be better able to collaborate for climate resilience.	Sep 19, 2017
The 16th Annual Financial Reporting Conference	This daylong conference serves as a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board. This year’s Keynote Speaker will be Jeanette M. Franzel, PCAOB Board Member.	May 04, 2017
The LEGO Approach to Innovation	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and the CEO Trust to learn how LEGO – a company selling a commodity product in a competitive market with tough global competition and fickle customers – has achieved an average of 21% annual sales growth and 36% annual profit growth for eight consecutive years.	Apr 25, 2017
Telling It Straight: The Story Route to Ethical Business Practice	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we welcome Leigh Hafrey for the Spring 2017 HSBC Student Series on Ethics and Accountability. Dr. Hafrey’s talk is entitled “Telling It Straight: The Story Route to Ethical Business Practice.”	Apr 06, 2017
Business and Religious Accommodations: Legal and Ethical Issues	The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity Present Business and Religious Accommodations: Legal and Ethical Issues.	Mar 20, 2017
The Foundations and Ethics of Entrepreneurial Strategy	Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we host Scott Stern, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.	Mar 07, 2017
The Circular Economy – A Holistic Vision for Achieving Prosperity	Join RZCCI and SPN as our panel presents inspiring business best practices and elaborate on opportunities and barriers encountered when making the transition to a circular economy.	Mar 02, 2017
A Conversation with Jacob Lew, Former US Secretary of the Treasury	The Zicklin School of Business invites you to A Conversation with Jacob Lew, who discusses his term as the Former US Secretary of the Treasury. The event will be opened by H. Fenwick Huss, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business, and two honors students will moderate questions.	Mar 02, 2017

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