Ethical Business Leadership

Honor, Wisdom and Earnestness.

These are the qualities that Beta Gamma Sigma seeks in its members. By no small coincidence, these are also key qualities personified by ethical business leaders.

That said, BGS is proud to announce its newest initiative: Ethical Business Leadership.

To announce this new initiative, the Fall 2006 BGS International Exchange focused on the importance of Ethical Business Leadership.

The following is an excerpt:

Over the next year, Beta Gamma Sigma will be developing programs and activities with our collegiate and alumni members that we hope will vastly increase our knowledge about how to build and run organizations where ethical behavior is practiced without exception. We are going to reach out to our collegiate and alumni chapters to help us build a repository of best practices on ethical business leadership. We will be asking you to identify companies where there has been a conscious, continuing and successful effort to incorporate the values and the behaviors that lead to the ethical conduct of business throughout the organization. Among other initiatives, we will be incorporating these stories and best-practice insights into practitioner-oriented articles and publications that we hope will improve the effectiveness of ethical business leadership.

We must build upon the honor, wisdom and earnestness of our members, because it is our intention that Beta Gamma Sigma and its membership lead the way for the best in business, including ethical leadership in a global setting. The Board is very clear; we are doing this not only for our membership but also for all of business in the United States and in other countries. Effective and results oriented ethical business leadership is important for business throughout the world, and Beta Gamma Sigma intends to be a long-term agent for progress.

We look forward to working with you, our members, to ensure that our organization aggressively promotes the principles of ethical business leadership that have always guided our organization

- David H. Blake, Chairman of the Ethical Business Leadership Task Force,
BGS Board of Governors; Professor, University of California at Irvine

The Society looks forward to working with the collegiate chapters in implenting this new initiative, and we encourage chapters to share their successes in this area with the Central Office.