On February 24th and 25th 2005, the Center on Ethics hosted a conference on the subject of Moral Leadership.  This event marked the official launch of the Center and brought together some of the nation’s preeminent scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The conference was cosponsored by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard’s Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.

Panel topics includeded:
Serving the Public Through the Public Sector: Accountability of Non-Profit Organizations
Self Sacrifice and Self Interest
Ethical Judgment
Psychology of Power
Moral Leadership in International Contexts
Moral Leadership in the University

A companion conference was also held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard on March 10-11th. The aim of both events was to bring together leading researchers from the fields of psychology, leadership, law, philosophy, sociology, and business ethics to discuss a topic that is of crucial social importance, but one that has, to date, attracted insufficient serious scholarship.

A selection of papers from both conferences was published:
Deborah L. Rhode, ed., Moral Leadership: The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgement, and Policy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006).

For speaker biographies, click here.

Scheule and Panelist Roster

February 24th, 2005:

12:00-1:00
Welcome Lunch	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

1:15-2:45
Serving the Public Through the Public Sector: Accountability of Non-Profit Organizations	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

Paul Brest	President	Hewlett Foundation
Bruce Sievers	Haas Center for Public Service	Stanford University
Moderator: James Phills	Graduate School of Business	Stanford University

 

3:00-5:00
Self Sacrifice and Self Interest	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

Daniel Batson	Department of Psychology	University of Kansas
Tom Tyler	School of Law	New York University
Jane Mansbridge	School of Government	Harvard University
William Damon	School of Education	Stanford University
Moderator: Rod Kramer	Graduate School of Business	Stanford University

 

evening
Provost’s Reception

February 25th, 2005:

8:30-10:15
Ethical Judgment	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

John Darley	Department of Psychology	Princeton University
David Messick	School of Management	Northwestern University
Russell Hardin	Department of Politics	New York University
Joshua Margolis	Business School	Harvard University
Moderator: Dale Miller	Graduate School of Business; Department of Psychology	Stanford University

 

10:30-12:00
The Psychology of Power	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

Dacher Keltner	Department of Psychology	University of California Berkeley
Phil Zimbardo	Department of Psychology	Stanford University
David Winter	Department of Psychology	University of Michigan
Moderator: Deborah Gruenfeld	Graduate School of Business	Stanford University

 

12:00-1:00
Lunch	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

1:00-2:45
Moral Leadership in International Contexts	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

Patrick Byrne	Chairman & President	Overstock.com
Kirk Hanson	Center for Applied Ethics	Santa Clara University
David Luban	Law; Department of Philosophy	Georgetown
Robert McGinn	Management Science & Engineering	Stanford University
Moderator: Linda Hill	Business School	Harvard University

 

3:00-4:15
Moral Leadership in the University	Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room

 

John Hennessy	President	Stanford University
Donald Kennedy	President Emeritus	Stanford University
Moderator: Deborah Rhode	Law; Center on Ethics	Stanford University

 

evening
Director's Reception