Giving Voice to Values

by MBA Program Office

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Wed, Aug 29, 2018

9 AM – 11:30 AM EDT (GMT-4)

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E51-325

70 Memorial Drive , Cambridge, MA 02142, United States

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NOTE: Complete the pre-reading before this session (click on 'Read More' below for 2 PDF links)
The centrality of the story to our personal and professional practice. In this session, you will join your Core teams to tell the story of a time when you spoke up for your values, describe how you did so, and assess the result you achieved. We will then share team findings in a review of what enabled your principled stance.

Pre-Readings:
1. A Tale of Two Stories: http://cglink.me/dc6a42e9d99f00106e3b485a91779cf22
2. Starting Assumptions: http://cglink.me/d4645c6ee93646045a41e9c11d50a5c30

Map:http://cglink.me/dcd3a1c9a79ec31e5e5af16e1a69d7b6d958c22ec5b3fe9ceea5439c415277123

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E51-325

70 Memorial Drive , Cambridge, MA 02142, United States

Speakers

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Leigh Hafrey

Senior Lecturer, Communication and Ethics

Leigh Hafrey is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Ethics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Since 1992, Hafrey has worked in professional ethics, with a focus on ethics and management, teaching courses at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan and consulting with professional practitioners in the United States and abroad. At MIT Sloan, he teaches regularly in the MBA, MIT-China, and Leaders for Global Operations. He also has taught in MIT's Industrial Liaison, Management of Technology, Nanyang Fellows, Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership, and System Design and Management programs. Together with his wife, Sandra Naddaff, Hafrey is a co-Master of Mather House, one of the 12 residential complexes in Harvard College. The Mather community brings together 400 undergraduates; 100 faculty, administrative, and alumni fellows; and dozens of advisory and other staff.

A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, Hafrey has published book translations from French and German. His reporting, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times and other American and European periodicals. He writes an ethics column for IPA's Business Today, a quarterly magazine for small to midsize businesses, and serves on the editorial advisory board of Philosophy of Management (U.K.) and the Journal of Business Ethics Education (U.S.). His book on how people use stories to articulate ethical norms;The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business;was published in September 2005 by Other Press.

Hafrey holds an AB in English from Harvard College and a PhD in comparative literature from Yale University.

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