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Day Family Ethics Speaker

Thanks to a generous donation of the Dr. Harry M. Day Charitable Foundation, the Johnson School and Law School have established the Day Family Ethics Speaker series for the benefit of MBA and law students.

Through the Day Family Discretionary Fund, the schools are bringing Alice M. Eldridge of Lockheed Martin Corp. to the Ithaca campus on March 25, 2008. In her presentation "One in 140,000: The Importance of an Ethical Culture," Eldridge will share the ways Lockheed Martin is integrating a strong ethics and compliance program into the fabric of the company.

In 2007, the series featured John Hueston, former lead prosecutor for the Enron trial, whose talk was titled "Behind the Scenes of the Enron Investigation and Trial: Creating the Conviction Moments from the Rubble of Corporate Governance Failure."

Alice M. Eldridge

Alice M. Eldridge
Vice President, Ethics and Business Conduct
Lockheed Martin Corp.
March 25, 2008

Alice M. Eldridge is vice president, ethics and business conduct for Lockheed Martin Corp., in Bethesda, Maryland. In this capacity, Ms. Eldridge is responsible for managing the corporation's ethics program, which is internationally recognized as a model for promoting adherence to high standards of individual and business conduct. The ethics and business conduct program at Lockheed Martin includes awareness and compliance training, outreach activities, issues management, and performance tracking.

Prior to assuming this role, Ms. Eldridge was vice president and general counsel for Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, New York, where she provided advice and counsel on all major legal issues arising within Lockheed Martin Systems Integration - Owego (LMSI - Owego), including Lockheed Martin Canada and Lockheed Martin UK Integrated Systems. Ms. Eldridge also was responsible for business practices and export/import control.

As a legal professional, Ms. Eldridge had oversight of a wide range of legal issues, including matters relating to pursuing, winning, and performing commercial, international, and U.S. government contracts, and extracting value from intellectual property through acquisition, sale, spin-off, or formation of joint ventures. In addition, Ms. Eldridge provided direct legal support for the US101 Presidential Helicopter Program, and she has significant experience in managing employment related matters.

Ms. Eldridge also served as general counsel for Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems in Eagan, Minnesota. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, she gained extensive experience in government-contracting litigation with the firms of Howrey and Simon, and Davis, Graham & Stubbs.

Ms. Eldridge has a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Vermont at Burlington, and a JD with honors from George Washington University, The National Law Center, Washington, D.C. Ms. Eldridge is a member of the Maryland and Washington, D.C., Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, and the American Corporate Counsels Association.

Due to a generous donation of the Dr. Harry M. Day Charitable Foundation, the Johnson School and Law School have established two key programs in ethics for the benefit of MBA and law students:

The lecturer position is held by Dana Radcliffe, who has been teaching classes in business ethics, corporate responsibility, and leadership at the Johnson School since 2000, and has been responsible for leading the school's ethics-related events and initiatives.

In this position, Radcliffe is charged with developing educational programs including courses, symposia, seminars, and guest speakers, which focus on business ethics for students at the Johnson School and the Law School. He coordinates with his colleagues at the Law School to identify ethics issues that affect legal and business decision making, and helps ensure that ethics curricula initiatives include participation of students from both the Johnson School and the Law School.

Through the Day Family Discretionary Fund, the schools brought John Hueston, former lead prosecutor for the Enron trial, to the Ithaca campus in February 2007 for a joint Johnson School and Law School event titled "Behind the Scenes of the Enron Investigation and Trial: Creating the Conviction Moments from the Rubble of Corporate Governance Failure."

Among the initiatives currently underway through the Day Family endowment is work by Johnson School students in the Ethics in Action Group, under the direction of Radcliffe. These students are developing a strategic communications plan for ethics at the Johnson School, which will serve as a guide for increasing attention to ethical issues by students and faculty in both the graduate business and law schools.