On Tuesday, April 4, Columbia Business School's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics will host an impassioned discussion on the new energy economy and changing American policies. This fireside chat brings together Geoffrey Heal, professor of social enterprise from Columbia Business School and author of Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity (2017), as well as Jim Rogers, former president and CEO of Duke Energy and author of Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone (2015). One of the key points Professor Heal makes in his book is that external costs pose the biggest threat to the environment and we simply cannot afford to continue to ignore this harmful error in our economic policies. Rogers and Heal will discuss their views on these trending topics and potential ways to solve the problem in a volatile political landscape.  Who: Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School  Jim Rogers, Former President and CEO, Duke Energy When: Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Where: Columbia Business School Uris Hall, Hepburn Lounge 3022 Broadway New York City ### About Columbia Business School Columbia Business School is the only world-class, Ivy League business school that delivers a learning experience where academic excellence meets with real-time exposure to the pulse of global business. Led by Dean Glenn Hubbard, the School's transformative curriculum bridges academic theory with unparalleled exposure to real-world business practice, equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset that allows them to recognize, capture, and create opportunity in any business environment. The thought leadership of the School's faculty and staff, combined with the accomplishments of its distinguished alumni and position in the center of global business, means that the School's efforts have an immediate, measurable impact on the forces shaping business every day. To learn more about Columbia Business School's position at the very center of business, please visit gsb.columbia.edu.    About the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics is the umbrella for leadership and ethics activities at Columbia Business School and an active forum for thought-leadership for the teaching and research on the ethics and governance challenges confronting the current and the next generation of global business leaders. The Bernstein Center's Student Leadership and Ethics Board fosters a culture and safeguards a tradition of principled leadership throughout the Columbia Business School community. The Board fulfills its purpose by developing, implementing and monitoring programs that cultivate leadership, build character, and promote ethical decision making, which, in turn, enable Columbia Business School students to become productive, moral, and caring participants in their companies and communities.