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Group plans discussion on business ethics

The Technology and Culture Forum will present "Making Good Ethics Good Business" with participants including Lotus Development Corp. founder Mitch Kapor. The event will take place tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 17) at 4pm in Wong Auditorium.

Mr. Kapor, designer of Lotus 1-2-3, will be the leadoff speaker. For 20 years, he has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, philanthropist, and most recently, venture capitalist.

The panel will feature Laura Nash, director of the Institute for Values-Centered Leadership at Harvard Divinity School who has written extensively on issues of ethics, religion, corporate culture and business leadership; and Timothy Rowe (SB 1995, management), founder and CEO of Cambridge Incubator and a former leader in the e-commerce practice of the Boston Consulting Group. Mary Rowe, special assistant to President Charles Vest and Sloan School adjunct professor of management, will serve as moderator.

The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required; seating is first come, first served. There will be a live audio broadcast of the program on the Technology and Culture Forum web site. For more information, call x3-0108.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 16, 2000.

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