Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics

Modupe Akinola, Associate Professor of Management, steps into the role of Faculty Director this fall.

The second annual Academic DEI Conference virtually assembled top professors from peer schools around the world to discuss and develop best practices for teaching diversity, equity, and inclusion in business school and beyond.

Laurel Richie, former president of the WNBA, speaks to authentic, trailblazing leadership and the hallmarks of healthy corporate cultures.

Pierre Gentin, Partner and Global General Counsel at McKinsey & Company, opens up about his early influences and explains how he draws on the humanities to bridge the gap between the legal and business worlds.

Former CEO of Honeywell International, David Cote, discusses his new book "Winning Now, Winning Later" and opens up about becoming the leader of a company that was on the verge of failure.

Dr. Roy Vagelos ’54PS shares his perspective on the current pandemic as well as leadership insights from his long-storied tenure as CEO of Merck & Co.

Angela Rossetti ’80, a guest lecturer at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, brings to light businesses’ evolving ethical compass by comparing the dishonorable business decisions of the 1918 flu pandemic with the collaborative, moral commitments made by today’s business leaders in the time of Coronavirus.

Top executives discuss leading through the COVID-19 crisis while striking the proper balance between personal and professional.

Bernstein Faculty Leader and David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business, Dan Wang, explores the power behind creating, maintaining, and leveraging meaningful relationships in today’s altered social climate.  

"I have always thought that the relationship between the CEO and the General Counsel is the most important partnership that exists," said Reuben Mark, former CEO of Colgate-Palmolive for nearly two and a half decades.