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See and hear out what most recent business ethics speaker has to teach us at our Lecture Hall. As you can see all of our guest lecturers are well known and have their credentials allow them to be considered as experts in their field.

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It is with pleasure that we give you our guest lecturers each a business ethics speaker and an expert in his field...

 

Our Latest Featured Lecture

2009 Annual Awards Luncheon April 16, 2009

Introduction and Awards Video

John Allison, Chairman of BB&T Corp. -Keynote Speech

Watch as John Allison, the former CEO and current Board Chairman of BB&T bank, as he explains how BB&T, the nation's 11th-largest financial institution, and he hold fast to a value system that extols such virtues as trust, respect, integrity, pride, reason and justice. In 2008, Allison was nominated by MorningStar as one of the best CEOs in 2008 calendar year.

John is a major contributor to the Ayn Rand Institute and assigns the reading of Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” to all of his senior executives, calling it the best defense of capitalism ever written," Allison has seen to it that "the BB&T Charitable Foundation has given 25 colleges and universities several million dollars to start programs devoted to the study of Rand's books and economic philosophy."

 



Our Lecture Archive

The Free Enterprise Foundation proudly presents its second annual Awards for Ethics and Civic Responsibility during a luncheon at The Citadel's Alumni Banquet Hall on Monday, April 30, 2007. Our guest speaker, The Honorable Edwin Meese, III, Former U.S. Attorney General, spoke on "Ethics and Civic Responsibility".

Video 1

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·         Opening Ceremony

·         Robert E. Freer, President of Free Enterprise Foundation

    • Introduction

    • What is the Free Enterprise Foundation about?

·         Tommy Baker, Chairman of Board, Free Enterprise Foundation 

    • Introduction of Dr. George Benson, President of College of Charleston

·         Dr. George Benson, President of College of Charleston

    • Presentation of Ethics & Civic Responsibility to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Zucker

Video 2

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·         Dr. Raymond Greenberg, President of Medical University of South Carolina

    • Presentation of Ethics & Civic Responsibility to Mr. and Mrs. James Edward

·         Dr. Earl Walkers, Dean of the School of Business at The Citadel

    • Presentation of Ethics & Civic Responsibility to Mr. and Mrs. William Hewitt

·         Robert E. Freer, President of Free Enterprise Foundation

    • Introduction of the Keynote Speaker

      • The Honorable Edwin Meese, III, Former U.S. Attorney General

 

Video 3

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·         Edwin Meese, III

o       Keynote Speech – Ethics and Civic Responsibility

o       Civil means three things…

  1. Ethics

  2. Civil Discourse

  3. Sense of Duty

·         Closing Ceremony

 

Ashcroft Discusses Security and Freedom

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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told the Corps of Cadets that one of the biggest challenges facing our nation is finding the balance between security and liberty. In his Greater Issues address, Ashcroft talked about the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Those attacks fundamentally changed the way the Justice Department operates and how Americans think about national security, he said. “The Justice Department was an organization that looked back, prosecuting criminals for past deeds.” Immediately the department changed its focus, looking to the future and gathering information to prevent attacks rather than looking backwards and gathering information to prosecute past offenses.

Ashcroft said the attacks also shattered our assumption that threats to national security come from other nation states. The terrorist attacks made it clear that “individuals or institutions of limited size can threaten our existence.”

The former attorney general said that there should be robust debate about the competing needs for information and privacy. “To disrupt those things that would destroy us, we need information,” he said. The balance between gathering information and protecting privacy are “two currents in American culture that are on a collision course.”

“You will have to be the ones to reconcile these competing needs,” he told the cadets.

At the conclusion of his address, Ashcroft received the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Administration from The Citadel Board of Visitors.

His address was co-sponsored by the Free Enterprise Foundation which is affiliated with The Citadel School of Business.  The Greater Issues series is made possible by a grant from the Mills B. Lane Memorial Foundation.
 

Ethics and Civic Responsibility First Annual Award Banquet, Alumni Hall, The Citadel - March 1, 2006

Award Presentation to Mac I. Whittle Jr. - Chairman & CEO South Financial Group Click Here to View Video

Speech by Honorable Jeffrey N. Shane - U.S. Undersecretary of Transportation Click Here to View Video
 

 
Best Practice in Environmental Compliance
by Kenneth Strassner
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President Reagan at The Citadel
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In May 1993 in one of his last major appearances, he addressed the graduating class of The Citadel and received an honorary doctoral degree. It is Vintage Reagan and showcases all that sets him apart in our affection.
See Dedication to Ronald Reagan
Read the Transcript of Ronald Reagan's Speech

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