College of Business dean headlines 2010 Global Ethics Summit in New York City
Kim Chaudoin |
Lipscomb University College of Business Dean Turney Stevens was one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 Global Ethics Summit, hosted by Dow Jones and Ethisphere, in New York City earlier this week.
The Global Ethics Summit leverages the combined expertise of Dow Jones and Ethisphere, in addition to a roster of leading experts, to provide a conference program that addressed business ethics, compliance and anti-corruption. In his address, Stevens focused on the issues related to board responsibility for setting the “tone at the top,” what laws require boards to do and how boards determine culture.
“This was a tremendous honor for Lipscomb University and for the College of Business to be asked to be a part of this conference. We were the only university in America represented on the agenda,” said Stevens.
Stevens was joined by Brackett Denniston, senior vice president and general counsel for General Electric; Charles L. Harrington, chairman and CEO of Parsons; Andy Hinton, chief compliance officer and associate general counsel, Google; Georg Kell, executive director, United Nations Global Impact; Douglas M. Lankler, senior vice president; and Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief, fraud section, criminal division, United States Department of Justice, as keynote speakers at the summit.
Last month, Stevens was named one of 2009's Most Influential People in Business Ethics by the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the advancement of best practices in business ethics.
Stevens, a long-time Nashville business leader, has been a major force in keeping business ethics at the forefront of Lipscomb's business school curriculum as well as part of community conversations through the Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity.
Ethisphere’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics features those who have impacted the world of business ethics in ways that will continue to resonate for many years and includes such people as SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, Harvard Fellow Ben W. Heineman Jr. and GreenBiz Editor Joel Makower (both of whom have spoken at Lipscomb events), and the President of the United States.
Listed at number 79, Stevens was nominated in the category of Thought Leadership: individuals “who conceive of new approaches or otherwise materially contribute to the field of business ethics theory in a way that could be easily applied by corporate leaders.” Stevens led the creation of Lipscomb’s Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity, formed in the fall of 2008 as a national forum to integrate best practices in governance with integrity and faith for public and private company executives, board members and other top-tier corporate leaders.
Stevens, a Nashville native, retired in 2007, after 35 years as an investment banker, corporate executive and entrepreneur. He was named Dean of the College of Business in 2008 following a national search. During his business career, he led the financing of many well known companies and also founded two significant enterprises of his own: a magazine publisher with five titles which was sold in 1982 to a public company and a national commercial printing company with $240 million in revenues which began with the acquisition of a $7 million company in Nashville. He led Rodgers Capital Corporation, the investment banking firm founded by the late U.S. Ambassador to France, Joe M. Rodgers, and he co-founded Harpeth Capital with Nashville attorney Sam Bartholomew and health care executive Clayton McWhorter in 2000.