Leadership and Ethics News

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."

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.

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

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

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.

Retired general George Casey, the 36th chief of staff of the US Army, shared his expertise on strategic leadership with Columbia Business School students, including military veterans, on Tuesday, February 7, at the School.

The number of women holding leadership positions in New York’s top companies continues to rise at a slow pace, according to a new study by Columbia Business School and the Women’s Executive Circle of New York (WECNY).

Mikael Ohlsson, president and CEO for the IKEA Group, received the 2011 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, an annual award presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.

Industry leaders and activists came together on Thursday, October 6, to discuss diversity on corporate boards as part of a lunchtime panel presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board, Columbia Women in Business, and the Latin American and Hispanic Business Association.

Henry Kravis '69 urges the School's newest alumni to take responsibility for shaping society.