Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics

Employee selection systems are important tools for shaping organizational culture. Previous research has shown that identifying and hiring employees who hold company-aligned vales, such as quality or adaptability, is an effective way to directly infuse those values into an organization. New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School goes a step further and finds that the cultural values of new hires can have spillover effects on existing employees and company-wide performance.

As firms aim to increase age, gender and racial diversity in their promotional materials, recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Me Too have simultaneously raised awareness of long-standing social inequality. However, past studies on the effects of racial diversity in advertising have been largely inconclusive. Now, new research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests that advertisers would be well advised to diversify racial representation in their materials.

Former Student Leadership and Ethics Co-Chair Marissa Guiang '22 recounts her recent trip with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) cohort and shares the foundational mindset shift that came from it. 

Student Leadership and Ethics Board member Danielle Shapiro ’24 discusses how to be an intentional mentor and mentee in the hybrid workspace. 

Daniel Lubetzky, Founder of KIND Snacks, who embodies the values of curiosity, compassion, and courage, implores future business leaders to change the world by doing the right thing.  

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is breaking through into business schools around the globe. Here we discuss how experts from renown institutions are sharing their knowledge with the wider academic community.

Bernstein Faculty Director Modupe Akinola made her blue-carpet debut as a featured expert on National Geographic’s new docuseries, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth.

Pam Fields, former chief executive officer of Stetson Worldwide Inc. and mentor at The ExCo Group, talks to Columbia Business School's future leaders about what really matters for a successful and fulfilling career—transparency, ownership, and networking.

The 2022 Klion Forum examined the challenges of political issues for both employees and company leadership.

Distrust of business is rampant in the U.S. Angela Rossetti '80, adjunct assistant professor at New York Medical College, associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Bernstein guest writer, explains how we can turn this around by teaching ethics.