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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
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
May 02, 2011

Rebuilding Trust & Restoring Confidence: Students Complete Leadership and Ethics Events Series

The Student Leadership and Ethics Board hosted a series of events under the emerging theme of Rebuilding Trust & Restoring Confidence. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
December 15, 2010

Governance, Executive Compensation, and Excessive Risk: A Research Report

The Sanford C. Bernstein Center, in conjunction with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, has produced a research report on Governance, Executive Compensation, and Excessive Risk in the Financial Services Industry, which addresses the latest academic research and industry best practices on corporate governance and compensation in the financial industry as well as the latest proposals for reform and regulation of these practices. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
November 16, 2010

Changing Finance to Financing Change: Peter Blom Sets Precedent in Responsible Banking

Peter Blom Receives Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics for his leadership in responsible banking. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
October 11, 2010

How Social Entrepreneurship Can Bridge Cultural Divides

Social entrepreneurship can be a powerful force for bridging cultural divides. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
June 14, 2010

Bernstein Center Hosts Conference on Governance, Executive Compensation and Excessive Risk in the Financial Services Industry

The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics co-hosted the May 27 event with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
June 02, 2010

What Would You Do? Students' Ethical Decisions at NGOs

The Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board hosted a student panel discussion on ethical dilemmas while working in government and with NGOs as part of Leadership and Ethics Month. Read more...