Dear COLE Team and friends:

We have a lot of activities and programs moving forward in parallel with scholars, students, and executives/practitioners. To give you an overview of the various programs and events at COLE and also to help spark ideas for further synergies, we began sending out a monthly email in March 2007, outlining forthcoming activities and immediate past activities. Below are the updates for November, December (2007), and January 2008.

If you are doing leadership-related programs that COLE should know of or engage with, please let us know by the 25th of every month so we can coordinate and add it to the communications for the forthcoming e-newsletter.

We also invite you to visit the new COLE Web site . The new design and content makes it a stronger resource for faculty, MBA and PhD students, and practitioners interested in leadership and ethics. Especially of note are: The Dorothea Peterjohn Online Leadership Library containing recommended books, downloadable videos, and syllabi collection; event calendars, a search engine, a news page; and a detailed view of our research and educational programs.

Thank you,

Sanyin Siang
COLE Managing Director

RESEARCH, CURRICULUM, AND TEACHING MATERIALS NEWS

National PhD Dissertation Proposal Competition – Led by Kim Wade-Benzoni, COLE faculty and staff have began publicizing the 2nd annual COLE Doctorate dissertation proposal competition in leadership and ethics, open to doctoral candidates in all business disciplines and in those related to education, social and political sciences. Application deadline is May 15, 2008. Proposals will be judged on the contribution that they make to the scholarly understanding of ethical and leadership issues in business as well as their theoretical and methodological quality. The competition is funded by a grant from the Wachovia Foundation. For more information about the 2008 competition, 2007 competition winners, please visit http://www.leadershipandethics.org/

Academic Research Conference - New Directions in Leadership Research
Planning continues for COLE's first research conference, May 31-June 1, 2008. The conference will explore global leadership issues and leading in situations requiring innovation or change. The format of this one and a half day conference will be invited paper sessions and discussions. All presentations will take place at Duke University 's Fuqua School of Business.

COLE/Kenan Research Seminar Series
On January 25, 2008, COLE and Kenan Scholars gathered at Fuqua for the second COLE/Kenan Research Seminar Series. These meetings are intended to encourage discussion and idea-sharing between scholars from both organizations, and to identify intersecting research interests. The first meeting was held on December 7, 2007.

Research Papers - COLE Center Scholars
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•  “Why we aren't as ethical as we think we are: A temporal explanation” was accepted for publication in Research on Organizational Behavior . The paper is co-authored by COLE Scholar Kim Wade-Benzoni.
•  “Maple Tree and weeping willows: The role of time, uncertainty, and affinity in intergenerational decisions” was accepted for publication in Negotiation and Conflict Management Research . The paper is authored by Kim Wade-Benzoni.
•  “Pushing the boundaries: A review and extension of the psychological dynamics of intergenerational conflict in organizations” was accepted for publication in Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management . The paper is co-authored by Kim Wade-Benzoni.
•  “The Malleability of Environmentalism” was accepted for publication in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy . Lead author, Kim Wade-Benzoni.
•  “When ‘sacred' issues are at stake” was accepted for publication in Negotiation Journal . Kim Wade-Benzoni is a co-author on the paper.

Presentations/Lectures
Sim Sitkin, COLE faculty director and center scholar led a two day session on leadership (January 08) for the top management team from Southern Fund, Senjin-headquartered financial services company in Hong Kong . 

Sanyin Siang, COLE Managing Director taught a mini-course for MIT Sloan's Innovation Period (October 07) . “The Leader as Coach” looked at the coaching role of the leader and provides a framework for leaders to establish the coach-coachee relationships as a key aspect of a good leader-follower relationship.

DAYTIME MBA STUDENT AND DUKE STUDENT EVENTS

COLE serves as an umbrella for leadership activities within Fuqua and a bridge to leadership and ethics efforts throughout Duke University , by working closely with various groups to build on existing programs as well as in developing new ones.

• Pratt School Leadership Seminar: A two-day seminar led by Joe LeBoeuf, Professor of the Practice and COLE Scholar (Dec. 07)
  

• Business Principles (ENV 374): Now in its second iteration, the course is a collaboration between Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Fuqua School of Business. The course provides graduate students with less exposure to business and management an introduction to the language of business and some frameworks for understanding how companies operate, thereby helping students to enhance their effectiveness in these organizations. The course is taught by James Emery, COLE's Research Director and a Management Instructor at Fuqua.

• Developing an Effective Resident and Faculty Development Program: A One-day, leadership development program fo Duke's Department of Dermatology. Program was led by Joe LeBoeuf.

• Developing, Sustaining and Leading Teams Program: A two-day leadership development program for 70 Masters of Engineering Management students at the Pratt School of Engineering. Curriculum included work on ethical, courageous behavior as a leader. Program was led by Joe LeBoeuf.

• Power and Politics in Organizations (MANAGEMT 422): taught by James Emery, COLE's Research Director and a Management Instructor at Fuqua.

• Two ongoing leadership and team development programs with Duke's Men's and Women's Lacrosse programs. Program is led by Joe LeBoeuf

COLE Leadership Fellows

• Recruting Process: COLE Leadership Fellows (Class of 2008) recently concluded recruiting for the next class of COLE Leadership Fellows. 126 students (32% of the MBA class) expressed interest and 88 applications were received. Of the 88, 34 were selected as COLE Leadership Fellows (Class of 2009). The COLE Leadership Fellows Program is supported by a grant through Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. For more information about the program, visit the COLE web site.

• COLE Leadership Fellow, Aparupa Bhattacharya (Class of 2008), wins the MBAA Team Fuqua Award. The Fuqua MBA Association (MBAA), recognizes a member of the Fuqua community whose actions go above and beyond their normal job responsibilities. Aparupa is the MBAA Student Life Executive Officer.

ALUMNI, EMBA, AND EXECUTIVE EVENTS AND PROGRAMS

Military Leadership: A one-day seminar for Global Executive MBA. Seminar developed and taught by Joe LeBoeuf, COLE Scholar.

The Duke Leadership Program: The Multiple Domain Approach (Nov. 2007) Sim Sitkin and Allan Lind are faculty leaders.

7th Annual Fuqua & Coach K Leadership Conference
Oct. 20-22, 2008. Theme: “Leading in Challenging Times: Overcoming Crisis, Sustaining Excellence, and Growing Intelligently.” More than 20 chief-suite level executives will speak at the leadership conference in scholar-moderated sessions. Recently confirmed speakers include:

• Ryan Allis, Founder, iContact

• Janet Hill, Vice President, Alexander & Associates, Inc.

• William C. Weldon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Johnson & Johnson

• Biggs Porter, CFO, Tenet Healthcare

Sponsors confirmed to date include Cushman and Wakefield and Financial Times. http://www.conferenceonleadership.com/

A Recap of the 6 th Annual Fuqua & Coach K Leadership Conference