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Welcome

If there is a local source in the Rochester area for all things ethical in business, this is it – home of the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation (RABEF).

On this site you’ll learn about the variety of events and activities RABEF sponsors:

  • A local business ethics awards program that feeds into a national awards program
  • Lectures, professional presentations and events that offer important information for an ethically run business
  • Community events 
  • A scholarship program for high school students and for undergraduate college students majoring in business
  • Links to ethics resources to help businesses and their managers do things the right way
  • Short, timely “must read” essays that may spark new approaches to running a business in an ethical manner

While the most publicly visible activity is the annual Rochester Business Ethics Award, RABEF remains active throughout the year, premised on the belief that business ethics is not a once-a-year event but a year-round conversation.    

Again, welcome and have a good, and ethical, day.

 

 

 
   

News and Events
   

RBJ Business Ethics columns now available
Jim Nortz, compliance director at Bausch & Lomb and a board member of RABEF, writes a monthly column on business ethics published by the Rochester Business Journal. Courtesy of the RBJ, these columns are now available.  
Now Available: 2009 RBEA Entry Form
Please go to the Rochester Business Ethics Award section of our website to read more about the awards process and to download the 2009 Entry Form.  Completed entry forms are due on May 15, 2009. 
2008 Award, Scholarship recipients announced

Two Rochester companies - Doyle Security Systems, Inc. and Midnight Janitorial - today have been designated as recipients of the 2008 Rochester Business Ethics Awards. The announcement was made at an awards luncheon today at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center attended by close to 500 people.   read more 

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Angella Luyk of Midnight Janitorial John Doyle of Doyle Security

 

 
2008 RBEA Event Highlights

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Dr. Hoffman's address to the 2008 RBEA luncheon is now available. Read it here

A video cast of Dr. Hoffman's address (with an introduction by Sage Rutty's Wayne Holly) is now available courtesy of WXXI; no need for an MP3 or similar type of device - watch it right on your computer screen.  Watch it here. 

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RABEF President Alan Ziegler (left) with the two 2008 scholarship recipients:  Katie Stefanik (center) of St. John Fisher College  and Loraine Ortiz (right) of The Edison School of Business.  Read Katie's thank you and Loraine's winning essay/thank you.

 

 

 
RBEA Announces 2008 Luncheon Speaker
WMH picture small.bmpW. Michael Hoffman, Ph.D., founder and executive director of the Center for Business Ethics and the Hieken Professor of Business and Professional Ethics at Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 Rochester Business Ethics Award (RBEA) luncheon on Tuesday, September 23, 2008.  read more
 
   

 

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