Upcoming and Past Events in 2008
Research Symposium: Universities, Careers and Women
Friday, September 19 at 8:30 a.m. - 2:00
p.m.
The Italian Academy
This research symposium brings leading faculty and researchers in the field of social economics and women, together with distinguished speakers in business, universities and the professions. Research will examine the impact of education on women in the professions (including law, business, medicine and academia) as well as career issues faced by women in universities and in business.
Keynote presentation: "Education and Careers: Insights from The Harvard and Beyond Project", by Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University. More information online here.
Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition Student Team Presentations
Friday, April 11 at 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 332
Teams with the strongest written submissions compete in the first round of presentations for this year's Walter V. Shipley
Business Leadership Case Competition, sponsored by JP Morgan Chase.
Teams of four or five MBA students, with at least two first-year
students per team, compete at Columbia for a spot in the next round of the competition. The first place team at Columbia will win $2,000 the second place $1,000, and third place $500. Then the first round winner will compete against other schools for a grand prize of $20,000.
Click here to read information from the winning team in 2006.
The Personal Side of Leadership: Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
A conversation with Mr. Gupta, conducted by Professor Hitendra Wadhwa
Thursday, April 10 at 5:45 - 7:00 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 301
- To what extent do your fundamental assumptions and mindsets about life and about people influence your professional success? What are the winning mindsets adopted by successful leaders?
- Which strategy is better — to leverage your strengths and stick to them or to actively push yourself beyond your comfort zone?
- How strong an influence do other people have on your values and your behavior? How can a leader tap positive influences from others while immunizing themselves from the negative?
- Is emotional mastery a hallmark of leadership? What emotions in particular are important to gain mastery over?
- Can you actually change yourself in fundamental ways, in terms of your values, mindsets and personality? How? Can values be taught to others?
- In
cultivating and practicing these qualities of Personal Leadership, can one
(or should one) separate one’s personal life from one’s professional life?
In his 34 year career in consulting, Mr. Gupta has served many leading companies on a broad set of topics related to strategy, organization and operations. He has played a thought leadership role in organizational thinking throughout his career, and led the Organization Practice for the Firm.
Mr. Gupta is very active in many non-profit institutions focused on education, health and development. He served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on UN Reform, is an independent Director of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, AMR Corporation, Qatar Financial Centre, and is the Chairman of the Board of Genpact and New Silk Route Private Equity. He is also on the Board of Rockefeller Foundation.
Montrone Seminar Series: Burt Staniar, Chairman of Knoll, Inc. with Professor Geoffrey Heal
Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Off-Campus
Read about Burt Staniar here.
The Paul M. Montrone Seminar Series on Ethics provides a venue for small groups of students to have roundtable discussions with business leaders about real-life ethical issues and the consequences of decisions. The intimate setting encourages students to freely discuss dilemmas of choice and allows business leaders to advise students on how these issues can affect entire companies, shareholders and the public.
Leadership and Ethics Week: Laura Liswood, Senior Advisor, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Co-Founder of the Council of Women World Leaders
Friday, April 4 at 3:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Warren Hall, Room 309
Laura Liswood will discuss women in business and diversity in the workplace as part of Leadership and Ethics Week.
Leadership and Ethics Week: Values-based Leadership Workshop with Professor Bill Klepper and Mary Gentile
Friday, April 4 at 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Warren Hall, Feldberg Lounge
The Student Leadership and Ethics Board presents a leadership workshop involving scripting and action planning as part of the theme of Leadership and Ethics Week: "Invest in Values: Advance Your Career Through Principled Leadership."
Leadership and Ethics Week: The Economics of Climate Change: How Businesses Benefit from Climate Change Strategies
Thursday, April 3 at 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 140
Moderated by Professor Geoffrey Heal, Bernstein Faculty Leader.
Panelists include:
Marlys Appleton, Vice President, Sustainability, AIG
Chris Hunter, Vice President, Carbon Finance, Climate Change Capital
Mario Lopez-Alcala, Senior Analyst, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
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Leadership and Ethics Week: Montrone Seminar Series: Sarah Nash, former Vice Chairman of J.P. Morgan with Professor Ralph Biggadike
Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Off-Campus
Leadership and Ethics Week: Insider Trading Panel
Wednesday, April 2 at 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 301
Moderated by Professor David Beim, Bernstein Faculty Leader.
Panelists include:
Ilan Reich, attorney convicted during the insider trading scandals of the 1980s; and
Jed Rakoff, U.S. District Judge and Columbia Law Professor.
Reception to follow in Lehman Lounge. Please RSVP online.
Leadership and Ethics Week: Marketing to the Conscious Consumer, a values and marketing workshop with BBMG
Wednesday, April 2 at 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Warren Hall, Room 208
Mitch Baranowski is co-founder of Bemporad Baranowski Marketing Group (BBMG), a New York-based marketing agency dedicated to helping socially responsible businesses and organizations harness the laws of branding to stand out, build relationships and inspire action.
Click here to register for this event.
For more information visit www.bbmg.com.
Leadership and Ethics Week: Subprime Lending Panel
Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 301
Moderated by Professor Michael Johannes.
Panelists include:
Melissa Cohn, founder, Manhattan Mortgage
John Bonfiglio '88, GMD, U.S. Structured Finance, Fitch Ratings
Bob Dannhauser , Senior Cap Markets Analyst, CFA Institute
Reception to follow. Please RSVP online.
Leadership and Ethics Week: Michael Clayton Film Screening with Professor Michael Feiner
Monday, March 31 at 5:45 - 8:30 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 301
The truth can be adjusted — but should it? As part of Leadership and Ethics Week, the Student Leadership and Ethics Board presents Michael Clayton as part of its "Invest in Values: Advance Your Career Through Principled Leadership" series. Join us for a screening of the movie nominated for seven Academy Awards, followed by a discussion on ethics led by Professor Michael Feiner.
Please register for this event online.
Bambi Semroc, Senior Manager, Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business
Saturday, March 29 at 11:40 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
Warren Hall, Room 311
Read more about Bambi Semroc
Financial Inclusion and Development
Friday, March 28 at 10:45 - 11:45 a.m.
Italian House
Panelists include:
Herbert Muller, Chairman of the Board, BancoSol
Hans Dellien, Senior Manager of Microfinance, Women’s World Banking
Alberto Chaia, Ph.D. ’02, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company (TBC)
Andrés Felipe Arias, Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Colombia
Moderator: David O. Beim, Professor of Finance and Economics & Bernstein Faculty Leader, Columbia Business School
This panel is part of the Latin American Business Association (LABA) Conference on: “Latin America: Growth Perspectives in a Shifting Political Landscape.” Conference details online. Supported by the Bernstein Student Leadership & Ethics Board.
Montrone Seminar Series: Richard Perl '79, CEO of Chocolat Michel Cluizel, with Professor Bruce Kogut
Wednesday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Italian House, Library (Amsterdam at 117th Street)
Read more about Richard Perl here. Supported by the Bernstein Student Leadership & Ethics Board.
Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition Information Session
Friday, March 25 at 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 330
Join us for an information session for this year's Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition, sponsored by JP Morgan Chase. Teams of four or five MBA students, with at least two first-year students per team, from Columbia, Darden, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stern, Tuck and Wharton will compete in the first round at their own schools. Then the first round winners from each school will compete in two further rounds for a grand prize of $20,000. The first place teams at each school will win $2,000 and the second place $1,000.
Click here to read information from the winning team in 2006.
IBS session – Roleplay session with Professor Mike Feiner
Thursday February 7 at 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. (Clusters X, Y and Z
What Would You Do...................?
“If your boss and your boss’ boss were to direct you to fire an organizational veteran of 18 years, a scant two months before he was set to retire, thereby preventing his benefits from maturing?”
OR
“If you were charged with reviewing and making a recommendation on a potentially attractive investment for your private equity fund employer, but you believed that the target – a sub-prime auto lender that targeted low income immigrants, often repossessing and “turning” the inventory multiple times – was unsavory or even ethically questionable?”
Many of you have and most of you will face dilemmas like these during your careers. To find out how best to grapple with these kinds of tough ethical issues, please join Professor Michael Feiner and members of your cluster for an interactive discussion based on the real-life experiences of your classmates. Sponsored by the Student Leadership and Ethics Board of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center.
Klion Forum – Peter Cornelius
Tuesday, January 29 at 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Peter Cornelius, Chief Economist of AlpInvest Partners, speaks at the annual Stanley R. Klion Forum on Ethics.
AlpInvest Partners is one of the world’s largest private equity investors with assets under management of $40 billion. Prior to his current position, Cornelius was the Group Chief Economist of Royal Dutch Shell, Director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Program, Head of International Economic Research of Deutsche Bank, a senior economist with the International Monetary Fund and a staff economist of the German Council of Economic Advisors. A visiting professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Cornelius has been an adjunct professor at Brandeis University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and received his doctorate in Economics from the University of Göttingen. Cornelius is the editor, with Bruce Kogut, of Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy published by Oxford University Press.
With an introduction by Bruce Kogut, the Sanford C. Bernstein Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center.
The KPMG Peat Marwick / Stanley R. Klion Forum is a regular feature of the School’s academic calendar and is a reminder of Stanley Klion’s ethical leadership at Columbia Business School.
IBS Curriculum in January Orientation
January 9 – 11, 2008
Uris Hall, Room 301
IBS Case Sessions: Learning teams explore a new multi-part case, produced by Bernstein Faculty Leaders and Columbia CaseWorks. This IBS case builds on introductory papers written by Columbia faculty, students and alumni, that are distributed to incoming students. This case is designed to explore issues that arise in three areas: values-based leadership, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance:
- Going Global: Working in Jumandia—Professor Michael Feiner challenges students to develop effective strategies for defending their principles in the workplace through a discussion of a promising young manager at Parker Petroleum.
- Parker Petroleum in Jumandia—Professor Geoffrey Heal leads a case discussion on a new refinery that is important to the company’s growth. What issues should the company address when operating in a developing country? How should the company prioritize and address these issues?
- Parker Petroleum in Crisis—Professor David Beim explores corporate governance issues facing the board concerning the company’s conduct in Jumandia. How should the board proceed when faced with serious questions related to the conduct of senior management, activist investors and external political issues?
This case is accompanied by a video introduction featuring Dean Glenn Hubbard, Sallie Krawcheck ’92, Citi Global Wealth Management and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice and Bernstein Faculty Leader. These sessions culminate at the end of the week with a role-play session by learning teams with peer advisors, and written assignments.
All IBS Orientation sessions are supported by the Citi Foundation.
