Ethical Business Leadership

Beta Gamma Sigma is very pleased to announce to our Collegiate Chapters that The BGS Center for Ethical Business Leadership is now open. As we’ve told you in past issues of the Connection, B-Mail and BGS International Exchange, Beta Gamma Sigma hopes to advance the discussion of – and enhance the practice of – Ethical Business Leadership in business schools, organizations and companies around the world.  

Currently, the EBL Center (www.eblcenter.org) houses video clips taken from conversations with various high-ranking corporate executives at some of the world’s top companies. Beta Gamma Sigma staff and Board of Governor members have visited with these individuals in places like Stillwater, Okla.; Hong Kong; Philadelphia; Greensboro, N.C.; Atlanta; and many more. As David Blake, Chair of The BGS Center for Ethical Business Leadership, has said, these clips do not make up a set of “best practices,” but a set of good practices and examples of how some companies have established, maintained and enhanced an ethical culture within their organizations.  

Some of those featured in the videos include Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox; Douglas R. Conant, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Co.; Dan T. Cathy, President and COO, Chick-fil-A; and Willie A. Deese, President of Merck Manufacturing. The thoughts of many others can be accessed there, and additional interviews will be conducted and posted to the site on an ongoing basis.

With recent corporate scandals and the indefensible actions of so many in the spotlight, the EBL Center seeks to offer some good news and show that “doing good is good for business.”

You are encouraged to use the featured videos in class, or to reference them in your academic pursuits. When dealing with BGS student members - or potential members - the EBL Center can be a powerful example to show what it means to agree to conduct one’s business life using Beta Gamma Sigma’s ideals of Honor, Wisdom, and Earnestness as a guide. The site is open to all – members, non-members, business schools, the media, businesses – so please take a look at www.eblcenter.org and see what the site offers you and your students.

If you have an ethics center in your business school or at your university, you are encouraged to let them know about this new and major initiative of Beta Gamma Sigma.

Ethical Business Leadership: A Chaper Program

Beta Gamma Sigma has developed “Ethical Business Leadership: A Chapter Program” based on the EBL Center. It is available free of charge to our Collegiate Chapters. Details on this program, which can be used as part of the celebration of BGS Founders’ Week (Feb. 15-21), can be found by clicking here.

Please contact us at eblcenter@betagammasigma.org with any thoughts or questions on the program.