Ethics in Leadership will be the focus of the 14th annual Kravis-de Roulet Conference on Saturday, March 6. Jointly sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, and the Institute for Advance Studies in Leadership at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the conference will examine critical issues of civic virtue, organizational ethics, leadership and conflict, ethics and technology, and leadership and social justice. Leading academicians in the field of ethics and leadership will present current research and findings about challenges faced by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
The day-long conference and luncheon is free of charge to all students and faculty of The Claremont Colleges.
The conference features eight speakers and one panel discussion. Norman Bowie of the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota will speak about good corporate leaders as community leaders in Expanding the Boundaries of Leadership: Integrity Really Matters. Noam Cook of San Jose State University will present That Which Governs Best: Leadership, Technology and Human Systems; and Richard R. Ellsworth of the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University will discuss the significance of institutional integrity in Leadership and the Morality of Purpose.
Other speakers include: Jay Conger of the London Business School, who will be joining Claremont McKenna in 2005 as the Kravis Professor of Leadership at CMC; Crispin Sartwell of the Maryland Institute College of Art; Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas at Austin; Peter Temes of Antioch New England Graduate School; and Tom Tyler of New York University. A panel called on Organizational Ethics will be moderated by Jean Lipman-Blumen of the Drucker Graduate School of Management and will feature Harry McMahon'75, Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co. and a CMC trustee.
The Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference is an annual event sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute and dedicated to the discussion, promotion, and celebration of leadership. The conference brings recognized leadership scholars and practitioners to the Claremont McKenna College campus to explore current research and exchange ideas about leadership and the development of future leaders.
The Kravis-de Roulet conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 6, in the Mary Pickford Auditorium. Early registration fee is $40 and includes the conference luncheon. Admission is free to all Claremont Colleges students and faculty, with scholarships and classroom discounts available to others. Online registration is available at http://kli.research.claremontmckenna.edu, or contact the Kravis Leadership Institute at (909) 621-8743, or by email at kravis.institute@claremontmckenna.edu.