About

The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research was established in 1997. The mission of the Center is to sponsor and disseminate leading edge research on critical topics in business ethics. It provides students, educators, business leaders, and policy makers with research to meet the ethical, governance, and compliance challenges that arise in complex business transactions. The Zicklin center supports research that examines those organizational incentives and disincentives that promote ethical business practices, along with the firm-level features, processes, and decision making associated with failures of governance, compliance, and integrity.

 

 

The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3730 Walnut Street
Room 668 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

Director: Thomas Donaldson
Associate Director: Lauretta Tomasco

Email: zicklincenter@wharton.upenn.edu
Tel: 215.898.1166
Fax: 215.573.2006

 

 



CSIS HILLS PROGRAM

The objective of The Hills Program is to identify serious governance problems, develop a better understanding of the corrupting influences that create such problems, and organize efforts to reduce those influences. The program operates out of 7 Centers at academic institutions in Asia, Latin America and Africa as well at CSIS in Washington DC. Over the years the program has:

 

  • Conducted Workshops in the U.S. , Latin America, Africa, and Asia to better understand the need for research and to compare the governance problems of various countries;
  • Identified and disseminated the best governance practices of business and government;
  • Conducted forums on such diverse subjects as Illicit Financial Flows (in Washington), Qur’anic Guidance for Good Governance (in Washington); Risk Management in the Supply Chain of Health Commodities (in Nairobi); Governance Problems in State-owned Enterprises, Campaign Finance, Local and Central Governments, and Business (in Jakarta);
  • Worked with Civil Society organizations to develop reform programs in Moscow, Indonesia , and Kenya;
  • Focused in particular on the corruption problems associated with municipalities;
  • Conducted in depth studies of the Governance problems of certain severely troubled emerging countries;  and
  • Worked regularly with the World Bank Institute, the World Bank and the Millennium Challenge Corporation in their efforts to reduce corruption.

 

As part of its mission, the CSIS Hills Program on Governance seeks to share useful information on governance issues. Please click here to view the program's available PDF resources.

 

Making Washington Work: a policy brief The Hills Program issued from CED on the governance problems of our National Government. The goal of was to understand why the political process in Washington, D.C. is failing and to propose and advocate policies and/or laws that can make the system work.