Despite four decades of good faith effort to teach Ethics in business schools, readers of the business press are still greeted on a regular basis with headlines about egregious excess and scandal. It becomes reasonable to ask why these efforts have not been working.
Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is an innovative approach to promoting a higher level of integrity in education and the workplace, pioneered by former Harvard Business School faculty Dr Mary Gentile. GVV is not about persuading people to be more ethical. Rather GVV starts from the premise that most of us already want to act on our values, but that we also want to feel that we have a reasonable chance of doing so effectively and successfully. This curriculum is about raising those odds. GVV, recently cited in the New York Times article “Is It Time To Re-Train B-Schools?” (March 14, 2009), is currently being piloted in over 100 sites from Yale to INSEAD to MIT to the Indian School of Business to the University of Western Australia – as well as business settings and non-profit organisations. Dr Gentile will explain the rationale and principles behind this empowering approach to developing the ethical muscles – the skills and confidence – required to voice and act on our values. BIOGRAPHY Mary C Gentile, PhD is Director of Giving Voice to Values www.GivingVoiceToValues.org launched by The Aspen Institute and Yale School of Management, with ongoing support from Babson College. This pioneering curriculum for values-driven leadership has over 100 pilot sites globally and has been featured in New York Times, Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. Gentile, faculty at Babson College and educational consultant, was previously at Harvard Business School. She holds a BA from The College of William and Mary and PhD from State University of New York-Buffalo. RSVP ESSENTIAL Kylie Weston - Call (08) 6488 5825 or email [email protected]
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