Ethics and Leadership News
January 30, 2013

Risk, Innovation, and Social Value

Bruce Kogut, the director of the School's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, discusses the center's latest perspective about making the financial sector work for Wall Street and Main Street after the financial crisis. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
January 30, 2013

Televised Business School Seminar Engages Debate Over Financial Crisis and Regulation

Last fall a panel of high-powered finance experts??including bank executives, regulators, politicians, journalists and a Nobel laureate in economics??assembled at Columbia??s Miller Theatre to participate in a panel titled ??Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?? Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
November 28, 2012

Barbara Krumsiek Awarded 2012 Botwinick Prize

Barbara Krumsiek, chair, president, and CEO of Calvert Investments, has been awarded Columbia Business School??s 2012 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. The award was presented during a ceremony on Monday, November 26. Read more...

Topics: Leadership
Ethics and Leadership News
September 25, 2012

Ethically Diverse

Diverse firms are perceived as more ethical and less deserving of punishment when they do commit transgressions. Read more...

Topics: Leadership
Ethics and Leadership News
March 09, 2012

How can we achieve diversity at the top?

With female leadership numbers stagnating, do we need quotas to push boardroom equality? Read more...

Topics: Leadership
Ethics and Leadership News
March 08, 2012

Tim Cook's Leadership Opportunity: Painting the Apple Green

With some risk, but the prospect of great reward, Tim Cook can polish Apple as a company willing to change while emphasizing its greatest asset: the love of a design aesthetic that also meets the moral and lifestyle expectations of its customers, its fans -- and even its critics. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
March 06, 2012

A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises

Professor Bruce Kogut recently co-authored an article describing how bringing philanthropic and investment capital together effectively could increase capacity to address pressing social challenges and how savvy financial structuring would be necessary to make this work. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
March 05, 2012

Down with Lobbyists! Or Not?

The brutal fact is that spending money on lobby groups often pays off for companies. Gillian Tett of the Financial Times discusses insights from the Business and Politics conference. Read more...