Faculty and Research

Welcome and Introductions

• Gavin Power, UN Global Compact Office
• Professor Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School

Opening Keynote Address: Human Rights, A Global Perspective

• Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative

Human Rights: Creating a Framework

Moderator: Bennett Freeman, Calvert

• David Schilling, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (IRRC)
• Robert Corcoran, GE
• John Morrison, Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR)

Resources

• A Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Management (BLIHR, UNGC, OHCHR)
• A Human Rights Matrix (BLIHR)
• A Human Rights Framework (BLIHR, IBLF, GC, OHCHR)

• Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights (Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on business and human rights)

Human Rights: Risk Assessment

Moderator: John F. Sherman, National Grid

• Yann Wyss, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
• Christine Bader, Advisor to the UN SRSG for business and human rights
• Margaret Jungk, Danish Institute for Human Rights

Resources

• Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management (International Business Leaders Forum, International Finance Corporation and UN Global Compact)

• Human Rights Impact Assessment (Rights and Democracy)
• Human Rights Compliance Assessment (Danish Institute)
• Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management (IBLF)
• Business & Human Rights: A Geography of Corporate Risk (Amnesty International UK and IBLF)

Keynote Address: Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda

• Professor John Ruggie, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on business and human rights

Resources

• Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights

Case Study Discussion on Human Rights in Supply Chains

• Professor Allen Grossman, Harvard Business School
• Charles Veillon, S.A. case study

Human Rights: Setting Policy and Addressing Stakeholder Expectations

Moderator: Helen MacDonald, Newmont Mining

• Lucy Amis, International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
• Dean Cycon, Dean's Organic Beans Coffee Company
• Annabel Short, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Resources

• Company human rights policy database (Business & Human Rights Resources Centre)

Human Rights: Monitoring and Reporting

Moderator: Marika McCauley Sine, The Coca-Cola Company

• Daniel Viederman, Verite
• Monique Oxender, Ford Motor Company
• Oliver Johner, UN Global Compact Office
• Reporting on Human Rights (GRI & Claremont McKenna College)

Capstone Address

• John Paluszek, Ketchum
• Launch of new report that explores how 20 businesses from around the world are working to implement human rights within their businesses

Resources

• Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice II (UN Global Compact Office and Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Closing Remarks

• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American plc

• Tools for business school students (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre)
• Human rights tools and guidance and a one-page guide to the tools (UN Global Compact)
• Human Rights initiative (Global Reporting Initiative)
• Human Rights and Business Project (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
• Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights(BLIHR)
• Business & Human Rights Resources Centre
• Rights and Democracy
• International Business Leaders Forum
• UN Global Compact Office (UNGC)
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Human Rights: It is Your Business. A Case for Corporate Engagement (IBLF)
• Human Rights: Is It Any of Your Business? (Amnesty International UK, IBLF)
• The Private Sector as a Partner in Conflict Prevention and Resolution (IBLF, International Alert, Council on Economic Priorities, The Business of Peace)