Department News
Jonathan Haidt
The Business & Society Program Area welcomes Jonathan Haidt as the Kaufman Visiting Professor of Business Ethics for 2011-2012. Jonathan is a professor in the Social Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia and the author of the The Happiness Hypothesis (2007). Professor Haidt studies morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He is also active in positive psychology (the scientific study of human flourishing) and study positive emotions such as moral elevation, admiration, and awe.
According to Haidt, "My research these days focuses on the moral foundations of politics, and on ways to transcend the “culture wars” by using recent discoveries in moral psychology to foster more civil forms of politics. Morality, by its very nature, makes it hard to study morality. It binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth. It closes hearts and minds to opponents even as it makes cooperation and decency possible within groups."
At Stern Haidt will try to integrate research on moral psychology with research and theory in business ethics. In particular his year-long project will seek the best ways to apply behavioral science research to create organizations that function as ethical systems, with only minimal need for directly teaching or training people to behave ethically. See his project at www.EthicalSystems.org. And take an eye-opening quiz about your own morals at YourMorals.org.
Eighth Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics on "Business 4 Government: Leveraging Eco-Efficiency at the Local Level"
March 4, 2011The eighth annual conference organized by the Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and NYU Stern’s Business and Society Program Area - with generous support from the Citi Foundation - brought together academics, practitioners, and selected students to explore market-based solutions to some of the world's most intractable social problems. This year's Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics, Dorian Dale, Energy Director & Sustainability Officer, Town of Babylon, keynoted the 2011 conference, sharing his insights on how energy efficiency initiatives can foster economic opportunities. Guest speakers included,Dorian Dale, Energy Director & Sustainability Officer, Town of Babylon, Bruce Schlein, Vice-President Sustainability, Citi, Ben Berkowitz, CEO & Co-Founder, SeeClickFix, Steve Bellone, Supervisor, Town of Babylon, Yannick Glemarec, Director, Environmental Finance, UN Development Program.
Book Signing Event, William Cohan, author of "Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World"
April 2011.Stern's Business & Society Program Area and the Graduate Finance Association held a special book signing event for William Cohan author of "Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World"
Stern Alum Book Signing Event, Conor Grennan, author of "Little Princes:One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal"
April 2011.Conor Grennan, last year's SCorp president, is coming back to campus to talk about his new book "Little Princes" and his non-profit organization Next Generation Nepal. Conor will share some stories as well as sign copies of his new book, available at the event for the discounted price of $10.
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