Dear COLE Team and friends:

We have a lot of activities and programs moving forward in parallel with scholars, students, and executives/practitioners. To give you an overview of the various programs and events at COLE and also to help spark ideas for further synergies, we began sending out a monthly email in March, outlining forthcoming activities and immediate past activities. Below are the updates for August, September, and October 2007.

If you are doing leadership-related programs that COLE should know of or engage with, please let us know by the 25th of every month so we can coordinate and add it to the communications for the forthcoming month.

Thank you,

Sanyin Siang
COLE Managing Director

RESEARCH, CURRICULUM, AND TEACHING MATERIALS NEWS

COLE at the Academy of Management Meeting, August 2007

Best Paper Award - Sim Sitkin was awarded 2007 AMR best paper for the paper – “Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: A Framing Perspective”.
Co –authors are Elizabeth George, Phithviraj Chattopadhyay, and Jeff Barden.
AMR is one of the most highly cited journals in management and organization behavior.

Paper Presentations: Freedom as the Purpose of Business” (ethics paper). The paper is co-authored by COLE Scholars Frank Benzoni and Kim Wade-Benzoni.

Research Papers & Symposium – “Leadership, Ethics, & the Future.” The symposium was organized and authored by Kim Wade-Benzoni. The symposium included presentations by Sim Sitkin, Frank Benzoni, and Kim Wade-Benzoni as well as other leading scholars in the domains of leadership and ethics. The symposium, explored the critical intersection between leadership, ethics, and the future as it relates to how organizational actors can “do well by doing good.”

Professional Development Workshop – “Leadership in Academia: What Does It Mean?” The workshop was organized by Kim Wade-Benzoni, and included a presentation on the application of leadership theory to academia by Sim Sitkin.

Research Paper: A paper co-authored by COLE Scholars, Sitkin and Lind, Levy and Janson was accepted for publication in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. The paper titled "Fairness and other leadership heuristics: A four-nation study" examines....Read More

Inaugural COLE PhD Dissertation Proposal Competition – Led by Kim Wade-Benzoni. Finalists identified. 1 winner and 1 runner-up were selected among twelve (12) international applications received. Winners will receive a $1,000 honorarium and be asked to present their research at Duke. Proposals were judged on the contribution that they make to the scholarly understanding of ethical and leadership issues in business as well as their theoretical and methodological quality. The competition was funded by a grant from the Wachovia Foundation.

The 07-08 core leadership and ethics courses was recently concluded - LEO (led by COLE Scholars Rick Larrick, Ashleigh Rosette and Visiting Professor Lehman Benson) and ILE 2 (led by COLE Scholar Joe LeBoeuf). LEO (for first year students) was held August 13-29.  ILE2 (for second year students) was held August 27-30. Read More...

 

DAYTIME MBA STUDENT AND DUKE STUDENT EVENTS

At Bat for Habitat : The Duke MBAA and the COLE Leadership Fellows hosted a fundraising event – “At Bat for Habitat event” on August 31 - at the Durham Bulls Stadium. At Bat for Habitat is a crucial fundraiser for The House That Fuqua Built that also celebrates the partnership between Fuqua and Habitat for Humanity of Durham. 

Joe LeBoeuf and Mark Tribus, Duke University Professor of Military Science co-developed (and co-teach) a new course for Duke Undergraduates. The course titled “Principles and Practices of High-Impact Leadership: The Application of Military Leadership to the Civilian World of Work.” The course is offered by the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy's Hart Leadership Program, and a part of a new collaboration between the Hart Leadership Program (HLP) and the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Find out more...

ALUMNI, EMBA, AND EXECUTIVE EVENTS AND PROGRAMS

6th Annual Fuqua & Coach K Leadership Conference
Oct. 15-17 Theme: Building World-Class Leadership Teams
The conference brought together prominent leaders in world business for a two-day interactive program for leaders and leaders-to-be. 25 chief-suite level executives representing organizations such as AIG, Bank of America, CNN, FedEx, Deloitte & Touche, Heidrick & Struggles, SAS, Thompson Corp., Wachovia, and WNBA, shared their thoughts on best practices for fostering leadership in their organizations.

The conference is a partnership with the Kenan Institute for Ethics, DukeCE and Duke Athletics. Additionally, three (3) of 8 concurrent panels were developed in conjunction with M.E.M.P at the Duke Pratt School of Engineering, Kenan and DukeCE.

http://www.conferenceonleadership.com/