Business Ethics Forum 2009 Baylor University - zzz (old) Business Ethics (Old)

Dr. Michael C. Jensen is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and a Senior Advisor at the Monitor Company. He is the author of numerous influential scientific papers, articles and books, including the new CEO Pay And What to Do About It: Restoring Integrity to Both Executive Compensation And Capital-market Relations.



Jensen co-founded the Journal of Financial Economics, one of the top three scientific journals in financial economics, and the Social Science Research Network. Among other accomplishments, he was named "Scholar of the Year" by the Eastern Finance Association in 1990. Jensen is also a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the Barbados Group, a worldwide collection of scholars devoted to developing the ontological foundations of performance.

Ethics Panel


Panelists Include:


Donald H. Chew
Trevor Harris
Jeff Sandefer
Sheridan Titman
Ronald J. Naples


Moderator - John Martin

Lamar Smith is the Director of Torchmark Corp., a holding company that specializes in life and supplemental health insurance. After a highly decorated career as an Air Force fighter pilot, with 114 combat missions in Vietnam, Smith joined First Command Financial Services in Fort Worth, Texas, as an advisor. He rose to president and then CEO. As CEO for 15 years, he led the company through tremendous growth and owned one of the first banks in the country focused on service via the Internet. Smith now dedicates himself to developing and sharing the concepts he has learned for living a balanced life. He is the author of the business book There's More to Life Than the Corner Office.

Jim Zarroli is a business and economy reporter for National Public Radio (NPR). He covers a wide range of economic subjects, including employment, the stock market, the Federal Reserve System, deregulation, trade and the media. His pieces air regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and he is a contributor to NPR's On the Media.

Among the stories he has covered recently are the accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom; the trials of Martha Stewart and Bernard Ebbers; the spread of tax shelters; the investigation of the insurance industry; the rise of oil prices; and numerous corporate mergers. He also assisted in NPR's coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and covered the U.N. during the first Gulf War and the Bosnia crisis.