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College of Business

Dean’s Forum Features Forbes Media Exec on Nation’s Economy Wrecked Due to Ethical Failure

Community members are invited to attend the second College of Business Dean’s Forum Speaker Series featuring Neil Weinberg, Forbes Media senior editor and co-host, analyst, and commentator for the weekly television program “Forbes on Fox.”

His presentation, “Ethical Failure: How Rampant Corruption is Wrecking the U.S. Economy,” is in partnership with the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas Business Publishing Group and The Institute of Management Accounting (IMA) Arkansas Central Chapter will begin at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 12 in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development Atrium. A reception will follow the lecture.

Neil Weinberg

Weinberg has been featured as a keynote speaker by professional societies, universities, and at numerous corporate events. His talks focus on business ethics, white-collar crime, executive pay, and the boom and bust cycles in financial markets and personal finance.

Weinberg’s talks draw on his work as executive editor at Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, where he is in charge of Wall Street and personal finance coverage. He discusses the gray ethical environment in which corporate wrongdoing occurs, the slippery slope down which many executives slide and the consequences that await them. Weinberg cites numerous examples — Bernard Madoff, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and the housing industry.

He also includes his research as co-author of “Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from Inside History’s Biggest Accounting Fraud—the Collapse of MCI WorldCom” (Etika Books, 2007). A frequent commentator on CNBC and Fox News, Weinberg is regularly asked to discuss current events by other media outlets, including National Public Radio, PBS, the British Broadcasting Corp, and network news programs.

The Dean’s Forum Speaker Series occurs once in the fall and once in the spring. RSVP for the April forum at cobdean@ualr.edu. For more information, call (501) 569.3356.

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Updated 3.30.2010