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Remarks by Robert S. Harris
Dean, The Darden School, University of Virginia
January 14, 2004
The teaching and practice of business has never been more
important. It is critical to the future success of our
economy, our corporations, our consumers, our employees, and
our communities. Those of us charged with developing future
business leaders share an obligation to both our students,
and the organizations they will lead, to play an active,
engaged role in producing business leaders that have the
business and ethical skills necessary for effective
leadership.
At the Darden School and UVA we see leadership and ethics as
inexorably linked, which is precisely what the Business
Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is all about. In
short, it fits with Darden’s mission of improving the
practice of business. It will leverage our school’s core
strengths of teaching, leadership, and ethics while drawing
world-class teaching faculty from other top business
schools, and their experience developing and delivering
educational programs for MBAs and executives.
And, at Darden we look to involve our students in every
aspect of the academic experience, and this project will be
no exception. MBA students play a vital role in this
Institute.
For all of these reasons Darden is delighted to be the host,
but by no means sole partner, in what is a unique venture
partnering America’s corporate and academic leaders. We look
forward to working with the members of the Business
Roundtable, our academic colleagues, and business students
to highlight and disseminate best practices, conduct
cutting-edge research, and create educational opportunities
that embed ethics into the decision-making and fabric of
business.
Ed Freeman, the Director of the new Institute, is an ideal
leader for the Institute’s academic members. Ed is an award
winning scholar and teacher, highly respected by his
students and colleagues for bringing ethics in the
foreground of business decisions. In addition to heading
Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Ed is masterful
in leading both MBAs and executives in discussions of
ethical issues and in crafting innovative research that
speaks to the business issues that face today’s corporate
leaders.
I’ll now turn it over to Ed to discuss his vision for the
Institute.
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