The annual Haitkin Lecture is a forum dedicated to the examination of issues of integrity and ethics in business. It is a special opportunity that allows for Stern students to listen to and ask questions of extraordinary individuals from academia, practice and the press. The Haitkin Lecture was established through the generosity of Stern alumnus Jeffrey Haitkin, BS ’68.
Past speakers include:
- Jonathan Haidt
 Author of The Anxious Generation and NYU Stern Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
- Brad Smith
 Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
- Daniel Lubetzky
 Founder and executive chairman of KIND Snacks
- Saru Jayaraman
 Co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley
- Preet Bharara
 Lawyer and former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Jane Mayer
 Investigative journalist and author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires
- Seema Saifee
 Staff attorney for the Innocence Project
- Anita Raghavan
 Author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice and contributor to The New York Times and Forbes
- Kurt Eichenwald
 Author of Conspiracy of Fools
- Nell Minow
 Founder of The Corporate Library, author and noted shareholder activist
- Marc Rotenberg
 Executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- Thomas Ekeli
 Investment director in the asset management department of the Norwegian Ministry of Finance
- Rosanne Haggerty
 Founder of Common Ground
- Simon Johnson
 Author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
- Paul Volcker
 Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
- Neil Barofsky 
 Former inspector general of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and former federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York.