In Spring ’06 MBA students participated in a role-playing, interactive workshop titled “Scenes from the Slippery Slope”. This event was sponsored by the Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board, which works with faculty and administration to develop the Individual, Business and Society (IBS) curriculum at Columbia Business School. The evening began with welcome remarks by Professor David Beim and then led into the main event. The troupe from Executive Development Concepts, a company that provides these workshops, began acting out a situation involving a young professional eager to earn his stripes at a new job and to prove himself to his co-workers and boss. The protagonist soon finds himself in many precarious situations in which his integrity and values are challenged. To keep the experience a surprise, I won’t reveal how the story develops, but suffice to say it touches on situations which were reminiscent of many of the ethical challenges which we wrote about for the first IBS assignment during orientation. As the story continued to unfold, the troupe froze scenes at critical junctures upon which Professor Beim would ask the audience what course of action they would pursue if faced with the same situation. Several lively discussions of this sort ensued at various points of the evening. Students jumped in with their thoughts – many sharing past experiences in which they had faced comparable predicaments. Others provided feedback on how they could have responded to the circumstances in a different manner. All in all, the audience responded by debating and then voting on various courses of action. It was obvious that students had a lot to share during these discussions – so much so that time often ran out before everyone could share their thoughts. These interactive sessions, which allow participants to share their thoughts freely in an open forum are designed to increase the likelihood of testing one’s assumptions about the best course of action when faced with these situations in the future. It is the goal of the Leadership and Ethics Board to continue bringing such events to the School in an effort to highlight issues involving integrity and ethics in the workplace.