Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. Mary Gentile provides ideas about how instead of teaching ethics, business students must be taught ethical behavior. Mary Gentile shares ideas for acting with values in a business setting, including how to to act when someone else in the organization is acting unethically, or when you are pressed to act against your values yourself. Mary Gentile offers a process that can be applied to ensure that your ethical voice is heard, and that ethics and values have an impact on leaders and the actions of the entire organization.
Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D. is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, August 9, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. You will learn:
* Why ethics and values are about more than knowing right from wrong
* Why acting on your values and ethics is so critical
* Why there is a renewed interest in ethics for business
* How to stand up to others on behalf of ethics and make a difference
Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D. (photo left) is Director of Giving Voice To Values, an innovative global curriculum for values-driven leadership development.
She is also Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; Senior Advisor, The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; and an independent consultant based in Arlington, MA. Previously Gentile was a faculty member and manager of case research at the Harvard Business School.
As Director of Giving Voice to Values (GVV), a business curriculum launched by Aspen Institute and Yale SOM now based and funded at Babson College. Gentile is leading a pioneering approach to values-driven leadership development that has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review (twice), strategy+business, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, BizEd, among many others, and is being piloted in over 125 business schools and organizations globally. The book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right is out from Yale University Press (2010).
As an independent consultant (1995-present), Gentile works with corporate, non-profit and academic institutions on leadership development, social impact management, ethics, business education and diversity. Clients include: Columbia University Business School, INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Pfizer Corporation, The United Nations Global Compact Learning Forum, University of Texas-Austin Business School, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, UCLA Anderson School of Business Executive Education, Duke University Fuqua School of Management, Notre Dame Business School, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Harvard Divinity School, among others.
With The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP), Gentile has been a key consultant from the organization’s inception, focusing on strategy and mission definition; research and networking; curriculum development; program design; writing of position papers and articles; and general executive coaching.
While at Harvard Business School (1985-95), Gentile was one of the principal architects of the innovative educational program, Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, which served to integrate Business Ethics into the Harvard graduate management curriculum. Gentile co-authored a book detailing the history, philosophy and implementation of this ethics initiative, Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School (co-authored with Thomas R. Piper and Sharon Parks, Harvard Business School Press, 1993, translated into Japanese and Hungarian).
Her other publications include Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity, Managing Diversity: Making Differences Work, Managerial Excellence Through Diversity: Text and Cases, as well as numerous articles, cases, and book reviews in publications such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Harvard Business Review, Risk Management, CFO, The Journal of Human Values, New Academy Review, BizEd, strategy+business, etc. Gentile also served as the Content Expert for the award-winning multi-media interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (Harvard Business School Publishing New Media Group, 1996).
Gentile holds a bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Let's talk with Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., as she describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. Mary Gentile provides ideas about how instead of teaching ethics, business students must be taught ethical behavior. Mary Gentile shares ideas for acting with values in a business setting, including how to to act when someone else in the organization is acting unethically, or when you are pressed to act against your values yourself. Mary Gentile offers a process that can be applied to ensure that your ethical voice is heard, and that ethics and values have an impact on leaders and the actions of the entire organization on Blog Business Success Radio.
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