From March 31 to April 4, the Sanford C. Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board and the Honor Board hosted the second annual Leadership and Ethics Week, featuring a full lineup of activities in support of the theme: “Invest in Values: Advance Your Career Through Principled Leadership.”
The week was kicked off with a screening and discussion of the film Michael Clayton led by Professor Michael Feiner and drawing over 200 registrants. Other events included panel discussions on subprime lending, insider trading and the economics of climate change; workshops on values-based leadership and marketing; and seminars led by guest speakers from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs.
In honor of the week, Public Offering featured a series of blog posts on leadership and ethics by contributors including Feiner, Dean Glenn Hubbard, Professor Daniel Ames, Professor Raymond Fisman and Matthew Balestrieri ’09, who discussed issues ranging from the ethical controversies of mining to the destructive power of “bad apples” in companies.
On the importance of values-based leadership, Feiner wrote: “The way you go about leading your people every day sends a strong signal about what you value in life, and what you don’t; what you value in relationships, and what you don’t; and what you value in people, and what you don’t… Values are the oxygen of followership.”
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