Tag Archives: Leadership

Ethics in the Age of Disruptions – Cahill Lecture

In 2021 I was chosen by the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership to deliver the annual Cahill Lecture on Ethics, entitled, “Ethics in an Age of Disruptions.” The lecture was attended by the board of the Center, faculty, and Notre Dame Deloitte scholars.

University of Illinois – Business Ethics Pioneers

In mid-year 2000, the University of Illinois undertook a project to interview a small group of individuals who pioneered and nurtured the nascent and still evolving  ethics and compliance profession. I was privileged to be among the individuals chosen to share our experiences. Driving this project was the effort to capture some of the acquired wisdom for posterity before theContinue reading “University of Illinois – Business Ethics Pioneers”

I Believe

Growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s I was still in my single digits. Television was in its infancy. Our first t.v. had a three inch screen, and later we graduated to a thirteen inch set, both black and white. One of my favorite shows in those early days was Peter Pan starring MaryContinue reading “I Believe”

A Failure of Leadership

Most of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. I remember the day clearly. At 8:50 a.m., I was sitting with the bank’s CFO in a conference room facing the Hudson River and New York Harbor at our headquarters in lower Manhattan. We wereContinue reading “A Failure of Leadership”