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2011


  • Seminar, 2 March, Tom Hadden, "Cautionary Tales from the West"

Australia is a significant player in the global economic and financial system and cannot be immune from future shocks. It should learn from others' experiences and seek to protect itself from the stupidity and self interest of bankers, the negligence of auditors, the ineffectiveness of regulators and the false sense of security by ordinary consumers that were so damaging in other, not so different, economies.

  • Annual Dinner, 17 February, Gael McDonald, "The Global Financial Crisis: The Extent to which Business Schools are to Blame"

Professor McDonald's address at BPEG's annual dinner emphasised the finger pointing that has occurred at business educators and their programs' role in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Her talk posed the question of whether business schools did, and what were the roles played in the GFC? More poignantly, she asked how are business schools responding, particularly in regard to a perceived lack of moral training? To explain the role of ethical values and moral training, Professor McDonald used the fitting analogy of fire extinguishers ignored until there is a crisis and then everyone has forgotten how to use them. This leads to the question of whether and what the role of business schools is with respect to the moral decay evident in the GFC.

2010

  • Seminar, 15 December, Grant Michelson, "No Strings Attached - Welcoming the Existential Gift in Business"
Grant is Professor and Associate Dean for research at Audencia Nantes School of Management, France.
  • Workshop, 11 November, Henriikka Clarkeburn, "The Challenges of Achieving Work-Life Balance"
Work life balance workshop, discussing the challenges and barriers to work life balance. A panel of speakers from within the University, representing finance, HR, the union, equal opportunity and management, spoke on a range of work life balance issues. The workshop will consist of speakers and breakout groups discussing the ethical issues associated with the delicate balance of work and commitments outside of work.
  • Dinner workshop, 12 July, Dean Neu and Jeff Everett, "Accounting, Ethics and the Politics of Corruption" 
Dean is an accounting scholar and activist who is committed to unveiling the presence of accounting where it might not otherwise be expected. His work, focusing on ethics and fair trade, should be of particular interest to BPEG members.
  • Dinner, 2 March, Stephen Long, "Scribes, Bribes and Videotape: The Ethics of Financial Journalism"
What's financial journalism for? Who does it serve? Did the media fail to alert the world to the coming credit crash, and if so, why? Presented by Stephen Long economic correspondent with the ABC