The Heisler Business Ethics Lecture Series

THE WOLTEMADE CENTER’S Heisler Business Ethics Lecture Series explores the current state of business ethics and what is required to reform corporate governance in the post-Enron period. The Heisler Lecture Series is funded by the Heisler Family Endowment for the Study of Ethics in honor of James Heisler ’38, Robert Heisler ’42, and Bruce Heisler ’49.

When the Woltemade Center was established in 1985, ethics in economics was to be a key focus of the Center's work. Major faculty development in the Economics Department ensued, with the objective of including ethics case studies and materials into a wide variety of economics, management, and accounting courses.

Subsequently, the Center broadened its programming to include other departments and conducted a two-year interdisciplinary faculty seminar. Out of this seminar grew an OWU National Colloquium on “Ethics, Citizenship and Public Policy.” These activities led to the integrating of an ethics component into selected courses and the development of an International Business Ethics course.