WERNER ERHARD

Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - A New Model of Integrity

Werner Erhard, Professor Michael Jensen and Steve Zaffron are developing a new model of integrity that links integrity with corporate and personal performance. They address integrity in a developing academic paper, whose primary purpose is to present a positive model of integrity that provides a powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.

The creation of this model reveals a causal link between integrity and increased performance. Through the work of clarifying and defining what integrity is and it’s causal link to performance, this model provides access to increased performance for private individuals, executives, economists, philosophers, policy makers, leaders, legal and government authorities.

This new model was initially presented at the Gruter Institute Conference on Values in June 2006. Since then it has been presented at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, MA, May 10, 2007, Simon School of Business, U. of Rochester; Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Sept. 2006, Nottingham College of Business, Nottingham, UK, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; HEC, Paris, France, Nov. 2006, Yale Symposium on Corporate Governance, Inaugural Lecture, (Yale Law School and Yale School of Organization and Management), New Haven, CT, January 2007, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Brain and Behavior, May 2007, Harvard Business School Negotiations Organizations and Markets Seminar, Sept. 2007; Yale School of Management, Sept. 2007: MIT Sloan School of Management Leadership Center, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 2007; Harvard Law School, Law, Economics and Organizations Research Seminar, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 2007; USC Marshall School of Business, Finance and Economics Dept. Distinguished Speaker Series, Nov. 2007; LeBow College Corporate Governance Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2008; Special Seminar Series, Business Department, Juan Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, April, 2008; Herbert Simon Lecture, Rajk Laszlo College, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, April 21, 2008; Exeter at Said Business School, Oxford, UK, April 24, 2008; University of Rochester Simon School of Business Alumni Seminar, NYC, May 5, 2008; DePaul U. Kellstadt School of Business, Chicago, IL, May 8, 2008; 1st IESE Conference on Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, July 2, 2008 Stern Stewart International Finance Summit, Cape Town, South Africa, July 31, 2008; Concordia University John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Quebec, CA Sept. 16, 2008; Institute of Corporate Directors Conference on Governance and Financial Markets in North America, Montreal, Quebec, CA, Sept. 19, 2008; Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct. 14, 2008; Paduano Faculty Research Symposium in Business Ethics, Stern School of Business, New York, Oct. 23, 2008; Olin School of Business Faculty Forum Sponsored by the Center for Research in Economics and Strategy and the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 6, 2008; Fisher School of Business, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH, Nov. 7, 2008; United States Air Force Academy, Platinum Series, Colorado Springs, CO, Jan. 21, 2009; Texas A&M Distinguished Lecture Series, College Station, TX, Feb. 10, 2009; Social Innovation Research Seminar Series, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, March 16, 2009.

LINKS:

"Integrity: Without it Nothing Works", an interview of Michael Jensen by Karen Christensen on the topic of integrity, as published in the Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, pp. 16-20, Fall 2009

A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value (PDF File of Keynote Slides)

A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value

Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - A New Model of Integrity - Presentation at the Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Dialogue with Werner H. Erhard and Michael C. Jensen. Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Michael Jensen wins 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award for Excellence

"Beyond Coordination and Control Is... Transformation" - EconomicPrinciples.com

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation - Michael Jensen’s and Werner Erhard’s Talk on Integrity

Top Ten - Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Do Markets Need Integrity? - A Publication of the Yale School of Management

Integtity is a Strange Loop - Legal Profession Blog

Integrity - A Business Conference - Photo Slide Presentation

MIT Sloan School of Management - Spotlight Archives: Leadership

Watch Michael Jensen present Integrity at HEC Paris

Watch Jensen and Zaffron discuss Integrity at Duisenberg School of Finance