Kreps Symposium 2025: Teaching Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business

This symposium explores key questions in teaching ethics to business leaders: What do students need to understand about individual decision-making, organizational design, and societal institutions to be able to engage productively with ethical issues and do the right thing?

Open to

Faculty

Staff

Students

Stanford Community

Alumni

Public

Location

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Companies and their leaders continually grapple with ethical questions on which there is profound disagreement. Sometimes, these disagreements are driven by people’s self-interest and self-serving worldviews; but often they are based instead on legitimate differences between the principles and values sincerely held by business leaders who aspire to be ethical themselves, to design organizations in which others behave ethically, and to build companies that have a positive impact on the world.