The first Barry Castro Business Ethics Lecture will feature New York Times journalist Kurt Eichenwald. He is an investigative reporter for the New York Times and author of the best-selling book on Enron, Conspiracy of Fools.
The lecture will be March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium of the DeVos Center on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus. Parking is available in the Front Street lot at the corner of Front and Watson. Media coverage of the event is encouraged.
The lecture is the inaugural event in an annual series that pays tribute to longtime Grand Valley State University professor Barry Castro, who died in 2005. When it came to applying ethics to business, many people -- from college students to some of the biggest CEOs of the Grand Rapids area -- turned to Castro.
Castro joined the Grand Valley community in 1973. He was a champion for ethics, teaching courses on the topic and establishing the Center for Business Ethics in Seidman College of Business. The center is a roundtable of CEOs, faculty and other community leaders who meet together to discuss ethical issues related to business. Castro also initiated and led seminars with CEOs who read Plato and discussed the ethical applications of his works to businesses.
