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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
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Home > Community Education > Center for Ethics and EntrepreneurshipLaunched in 2007, the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford College strives to achieve excellence in teaching and research in business ethics, entrepreneurship, political economy and related fields.
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Courses
The Center’s faculty members develop and teach interdisciplinary and innovative courses. Core offerings in entrepreneurship and business ethics include courses on Capitalism in the Modern World, Business and Economics Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship and Ethics. The Center also awards grants for course developments in related fields, including American Economic History, Political Philosophy of the American Revolutionary Era, and Sports Ethics. Find out more about the Center's courses.
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Guest Speakers
Each semester the Center brings renowned guest speakers to campus. Past speakers have included Dr. Eric Mack on Harvard political philosopher Robert Nozick’s theory of entitlement; Dr. David Schweickart on Marx’s critique of capitalism; Dr. David Kelley on Ayn Rand’s moral defense of capitalism; Dr. Robert Bradley on how philosophy—not only business economics and political economy—is key to understanding the rise and fall of Enron, Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Nobel-Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek; and Dr. Terry Noel on virtue and entrepreneurship. Find out more about the Center's speakers.
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Kaizen
The Center’s newsletter, Kaizen, is published every semester and features in-depth interviews with successful entrepreneurs from all areas of life. Past interviews have included a painter, an architect, an international product developer, and a sports entrepreneur. Find out more about the Center’s publications. |
Find out more about the Center's events.
Web site
The Center’s web log is dedicated to news in entrepreneurship, business ethics, technological innovation, and political economy. The Web site also features multimedia: a promotional video, short clips of individual faculty members giving overviews of their courses; video of interviews with CEE's guest speakers and student presentations.
Connect to CEEVisit CEE on  Facebook  Yahoo Video  TwitterFor more information, contact CEE’s Executive Director, Dr. Stephen Hicks, at the Center’s e-mail address, CEE@rockford.edu. The CEE office is located on the second floor of Burpee Center.  CEE RSS Feed
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . Netflix: Back from the Brink of Destruction It was a business disaster. In 2011, Netflix rolled out Qwikster, which “tried to both raise prices and spin off its DVD-by-mail business.” The media [...]
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . Ralph Lauren Displays Integrity in Bribery Scandal Ralph Lauren discovered that one of its subsidiaries had been bribing Argentinian officials. Not only did the company report the violation to the SEC themselves, [...]
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Guest speaker Dr. Robert Salvino recently spoke on “Entrepreneurship and Public Policy” at Rockford College. Salvino received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University in 2007 and currently teaches [...]
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr Blasting Crony Capitalism University of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales recently gave a lecture sponsored by the Pope Foundation in which he highlighted the arguments from his new book, A Capitalism for the People: [...]
On April 23, Robert Salvino will speak on the topic of “Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.” Dr. Salvino received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University in 2007 and currently teaches in the Department of Economics at Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina. All of the campus community is welcome to attend. Scarborough Hall, Rm 212 from 11:00am [...]
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . 9 Dangerous Things You Were Taught in School We didn’t just learn reading, writing, and arithmetic in school; we learned innumerable life lessons along the way. This Forbes article argues that school [...]
On April 15, Hicks gave a talk at the annual conference for the Association of Private Enterprise and Education. The subject of his talk was “What Makes Capitalism Good: Are Hayek’s, Rand’s, and Friedman’s Answers Compatible?” Hicks also chaired a session on “Recent Work on Morality and Capitalism” with papers by John Thrasher (University of [...]
. Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . John Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has made waves with his book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. According to this Forbes review, the theme of [...]
Kaizen Weekly Review highlights activities of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and recent business ethics and entrepreneurship news. Editor: Virginia Murr . Lessons on Leadership from Mark Cuban Not all of Mark Cuban’s bosses appreciated his ambitious, entrepreneurial nature — he was often criticized for it. Speaking about one of his former bosses, the [...]
Professor Stephen Hicks, CEE’s Executive Director, interviewed guest speaker Terry Noel, Associate Professor of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University, about virtuous entrepreneurship. Watch the interview below. .
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