In addition, Dr. Peter R. Gillett, an associate professor of accounting and information systems at Rutgers, has been appointed academic director at the Business Ethics Center, Oppenheim announced. Hartman, the founding director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, recently accepted a position at New York University after a distinguished 23-year career with Rutgers University.
As Business Ethics Center director, Bramucci will be responsible for building and strengthening the Centers relationships with key members of the business community and the government sector to collaborate on matters of business ethics and ethical decision-making and to partner on activities such as executive education and training.
As academic director, Gillett will coordinate internal and external academic activities, including planning conferences and lectures; develop curriculum in degree programs and in customized in-house training and certificate programs; and form and chair an interdisciplinary faculty committee.
We are very grateful to Ed Hartman for his visionary leadership of the Center for the last five years. Ethical issues in business and public life still demand focused attention and we look forward with great enthusiasm to an active and outward-reaching Center under the direction of Ray Bramucci and Peter Gillett, said Oppenheim.
The Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, located on the universitys Newark, New Jersey campus, takes a leading role in raising awareness and contributing to the theory and practice of business ethics. It is the only academic research center of its kind in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. The Center was founded in 2002 with a major grant from The Prudential Foundation.
The Prudential Foundation is confident that under the leadership of Ray Bramucci, the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers will continue to set the standard for business ethics in the state of New Jersey and beyond, said Gabriella Morris, president, The Prudential Foundation, and vice president, Community Resources.
From 2001 to 2006, Bramucci, of Pompton Plains, NJ, was president of Instructional Systems, Inc., a Hackensack-based, multi-million-dollar technology company that develops learning programs for the workforce industry. In addition, he is chairman of the board of the Caucus Educational Corporation (CEC), a non-profit public television broadcasting company that produces the Emmy Award-winning Caucus: New Jersey and One on One.
He has served as chairman of the New Jersey Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards; assistant secretary of labor for Employment and Training under President Bill Clinton; New Jersey Commissioner of Labor; and director of New Jersey Operations under U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ); and has provided consulting services to management and labor leaders on industrial relations, and to community-based organizations on matters of public policy.
Bramucci, who has an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Felician College, where he is a regent, has lectured at Adelphi University and Montclair State, taught at Rutgers University, and was founder and executive director of the Seton Hall University Institute of Work.
Gillett, of North Brunswick, NJ, has been a member of the Rutgers Business SchoolNewark and New Brunswick faculty since 1996 as an associate professor of accounting and information systems. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in business from the University of Kansas.
Gillett spent 18 years in professional practice as an auditor, EDP auditor and management consultant. In addition to numerous articles on subjects related to audit risk and evidence, fraudulent reporting, expert systems and uncertain reasoning, Gilletts publications include The Effects of Moral Reasoning and Self-Monitoring on CFO Intentions to Report Fraudulently on Financial Statements (The Journal of Business Ethics).
In 2002, he gave a keynote address at the Prudential Business Ethics Center conference Enron and the Accounting Profession and was a panelist on the Centers 2003 presentation Corporate Scandals and Whistleblowing: The Enron Collapse and its Aftermath. While at the University of Kansas he was the Ronald G. Harper Doctoral Fellow, and held the Ernst & Young Doctoral Fellowship in the Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology.
The Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has taken a leadership role in promoting the value of ethics in todays business world. Founded in 2002 with a major grant from The Prudential Foundation, the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers is an academic research center of Rutgers Business SchoolNewark and New Brunswick. The Centers mission is to help create social as well as financial capital for the business and professional communities of New Jersey and beyond. Its activities, which include conferences, lectures, courses and research at Rutgers Business School, are designed to contribute to the theory and practice of ethics in business and the professions. The Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers supports the teaching of business ethics to students as well as to corporate audiences, and it provides visible leadership that will raise issues and inspire a broader community. For additional information, visit www.pruethics.rutgers.edu.
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) offers extensive undergraduate and graduate business programs on the Newark and New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The business programs are accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and RBS is ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report, Business Week and the Wall Street Journal. Alumni of Rutgers Business School include C.E.O.s and C.F.O.s of leading corporations.
Graduate programs offered by RBS include the M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., International Executive M.B.A. and M.B.A. in Professional Accounting. A J.D./M.B.A. and a J.D./Professional Accounting M.B.A. are offered in conjunction with the Rutgers School of Law-Newark; the M.P.H./M.B.A. and M.S. in Biomedical Sciences/M.B.A. are offered in conjunction with the Graduate School-Newark. Other graduate degree programs include a Master of Quantitative Finance, Master of Accountancy in Taxation, a Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting, and a Ph.D. in Management. The school is home to numerous outreach and academic research centers. For additional information, visit RBS.