14th annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference
"Ethics in Leadership"
Saturday, March
6, 2004
Claremont McKenna College
Pickford Auditorium
Speakers
Norman E. Bowie is the Elmer L Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota where he holds a joint appointment in the departments of strategic management and philosophy. His most recent books are Guide to Business Ethics (2002)and Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective. His latest book, Management Ethics, will be published in the fall of 2004. The title of his talk will be "Expanding the Boundaries of Leadership: Integrity Really Matters."
Joanne B. Ciulla is professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond. Ciulla has also held the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan, and academic appointments at La Salle University, the Harvard Business School, and The Wharton School. Her books include Ethics, The Heart of Leadership and The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, and The Ethics of Leadership. Dr. Ciulla, co-host of the conference, will provide introductory and closing remarks.
Jay Conger is a professor of management at the London Business School and a research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. Conger consults with a worldwide list of private corporations and nonprofit organizations and serves as an advisor and coach to numerous executives and CEOs. Author of over seventy articles and book chapters, and nine books including Shared Leadership: Reframing the How’s and Why’s of Leading Others; Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top; Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation; and Charismatic Leadership in Organizations. His talk is entitled, "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: Lessons from the Dark Side of Executive Leadership."
S.D. Noam Cook is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. His publications, research and consulting interests focus on social and technological change, particularly the roles of specialized knowledge, professional practice and values. He has given invited presentations on his work for academic, industrial and governmental institutions in the US and abroad, including MIT, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, Leiden University in The Netherlands, the University of Westminster in London, MITRE Corporation, Xerox research centers in the US, UK and France, the national government of The Netherlands, and various US federal agencies. He will talk on "That Which Governs Best: Leadership, Technology and Human Systems."
Richard Ellsworth is Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining the Drucker School, he was on the faculty at Harvard Business School. His teaching and research interests encompass strategy, strategy implementation, and leadership. His research has led him to inquiries in the areas of (i) the nature of excellence in executive leadership, (ii) the influence of corporate purpose on leadership and competitive performance, (iii) the role of financial policies in corporate strategy, and (iv) how to overcome the barriers to creativity and initiative in complex organizations. He is the author of the book Leading with Purpose and co-author of Leadership and the Quest for Integrity. The title of his talk is "Leadership and the Morality of Purpose."
Jean Lipman-Blumen serves as both the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. She is also co-founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Drucker School. Professor Lipman-Blumen's 1996 work, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdisciplinary World, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her 1999 book with Stanford Professor Harold J. Leavitt, Hot Groups, was awarded the "Best Book of 1999" by the Scholarly and Professional Division of the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Her latest book, The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why Do We Tolerate Them? (Oxford University Press) will be published in August. She will serve as the moderator for the Organizational Ethics Panel at the conference.
Harry McMahon serves as Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co. and is a member of the executive committee of the Firm’s Global Markets and Investment Banking Group. From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Head of Global Corporate Finance, overseeing all Corporate Client activities in Consumer Products, Healthcare, Media, Technology, and Telecommunications. His broad base of client experience has included being the team leader on over 250 projects involving either Corporate Finance or Mergers and Acquisitions advisory work. He will talk about dealing with ethical issues during the Organizational Ethics Panel.
Susan Elaine Murphy is Associate Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College and Associate Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute currently serving as Interim Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute. Immediately prior to joining Claremont McKenna College, Professor Murphy worked as a research scientist at Battelle, Seattle Research Center. She is co-editor of two recent publications, Multiple Intelligences and Leadership and The Future of Leadership Development and numerous leadership and mentoring articles. Professor Murphy is co-editor of the forthcoming Lawrence Erlbaum publication Changing the Metaphor: From Work Family Balance to Work Family Interaction. As conference co-host she will provide introductory and closing remarks.
Terry Price is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond where he teaches Ethics, History and Theories of Leadership, and Critical Thinking. He is co-editor of a three-volume set called The International Library of Leadership, forthcoming on Edward Elgar Press, and author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership: The Moral Psychology of Exception Making, under contract with Cambridge University Press. He will provide closing remarks.
Crispin Sartwell writes a weekly opinion column that is distributed by Creators Syndicate and appears in the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other newspapers. He is Chair of Humanities and Sciences at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and has been Mellon Fellow at Vanderbilt University and Annenberg Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn. He has developed and taught courses on the ethics of art and design. He is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives (SUNY 2003). His talk is entitled, "Cardinal Virtues of Leadership."
Robert C. Solomon has spent the past twenty years thinking, writing and lecturing about the importance of ethics in business. He is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of five books on business ethics, including Above the Bottom Line, Ethics and Excellence, It’s Good Business, A Better Way to Think about Business and Building Trust(with Fernando Flores). He has designed and delivered ethics programs a number of Fortune 500 companies. His talk is entitled "Emotional Integrity in Leadership."
Peter Temes became president of Antioch New England Graduate School in September 2002. Peter has taught literature, ethics, and writing at Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and other institutions of higher education. Peter's most recent publications include: The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War; and Against School Reform and In Praise of Great Teaching, as well as articles and book reviews on ethics, education and literature. His talk is entitled "Dirty Hands, Necessary Sin and the Philosophical Evasion of Normative Ethics."
Tom Tyler is University Professor of Psychology at New York University. He teaches in the psychology department and at NYU Law School. His research explores the dynamics of authority in legal, political and managerial groups. In particular, he is concerned with the influence of the fairness of the policies and procedures of organizations on the behavior of their members. He is the author of several books, including: The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice; Why People Obey the Law; Social Justice in a Diverse Society; and Social Influences on Ethical Behavior in Organizations(Editor). His talk is entitled, "Ethics and Effective Leadership."
