Allegacy Center for Leadership & Character Article Archives

The Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character in the School of Business is pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Rea to campus March 5-6. Dr. Rea, the Vice President of Integrity and Ethics Enterprise Wide at Parker Hannifin, is responsible for integration of ethics and ethics initiatives across his organization’s 60,000 employees. Among other scheduled opportunities…

On Thursday, February 20, the school of business students, staff and faculty participated in the 2nd Annual Soup for the Soul Crock-off in the Founders Living Room at Farrell Hall.  Crock pots of soup, stew and chili were made as a friendly competition, along with numerous cakes, cookies, and desserts, all for a great cause:…

The Wake Forest University Ethics Bowl team took top honors last weekend at the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU)  3rd Annual Ethics Bowl competition.  The event, held at the Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, NC, featured students from 20 independent colleges and universities in North Carolina and the debate’s  focus this…

The Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character is pleased to welcome Dawn Ruble to the team in the role of Administrative Coordinator.  In this role, Dawn will serve as the primary contact person for the planning, organization and execution of administration functions that support the ACLC within the school of business. Dawn brings more than…

Students representing Wake Forest University and the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character spoke recently about their attendance at the US Naval Academy’s 2014 Leadership Conference. Junior biology major, Alexa Cienski, and John Miller, a senior BEM major, attended the conference whose theme was “Followership:  The Evolution of a Leader”  held in Annapolis January 26-29,…

The Allegacy Center for Leadership and  Character is pleased to announce the selection of two students to represent Wake Forest at the US Air Force Academy’s National Character and Leadership Symposium. Jessica Argenti, a senior, and junior Kate Coble, both Business and Enterprise Management majors, will represent the school at the 21st Annual National Character & Leadership…

The Wake Forest Ethics Debate Team qualified for the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl following the 10th Annual Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl competition last November in Clearwater, Florida. This was only the second time the Team has competed in the S.E. Regionals. Wake Forest competed against 28 schools from across the country, finished in the top…

On Monday, January 13, the leadership of School of Business gathered to share area updates and discuss points of collaboration towards the School’s strategic focus and planning. During this time, The Center presented a portfolio of products and services as part of the Business School’s mission to integrate leadership and character components across curricular, co-curricular…

The week of November 19-23, Professor Sean Hannah conducted a leadership speaking and research tour in Norway.  This tour began with Dr. Hannah’s keynote address at a conference of 150 oil and shipping executives in Stavanger to speak about leadership during extreme contexts.  The conference focused on leadership during crisis such as terrorist attacks on ships and oil facilities,…

On Wednesday, October 23, The Center sponsored a presentation with a wine and cheese social, hosting Dr. Bill Gentry of the Center for Creative Leadership. Dr. Gentry shared research and remarks on “How Character Plays a Part in Political Savvy”, discussing the importance of being politically savvy in organizations, while still being grounded in character.

Center fellow Matthew Phillips presented the current draft of the Ethical Decision-Action Model to a group of twenty CFOs and financial executives today in Charlotte in cooperation with the CFO Alliance, a national group with chapters in major cities across the country. Development of the Ethical Decision-Action Model (EDAM) began in response to a desire…

Sean Hannah, Wilson chair in business ethics and professor of management, and his team have published research in Leadership Quarterly that explores the relationship between positive attitudes among workers and the effectiveness of authentic leaders. The research team focused on extreme contexts such as police and military organizations. The research reinforced the established link between authentic…

Students, faculty, and staff of the School of Business recently found an opportunity to live the Wake Forest University motto of Pro Humanitate (“for humanity”). In September, the Allegacy Center for Leadership & Character organized two School of Business teams to assist in building local Habitat homes sponsored by Wake Forest University and Wake Forest…

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, the Wake Forest School of Business hosted its inaugural orientation in the Broyhill Auditorium of the new Farrell Hall. The keynote speaker was Bob McDonald, recently retired Chairman, President & CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company. Bob McDonald’s values-based leadership beliefs define him as an individual and a global…

Center faculty, including Sean Hannah and Matthew Phillips, take part regularly in campus events to chat with faculty, staff and students about leadership and character in the business profession. The Center for Leadership & Character works as a resource for the Wake Forest campus, connecting Demon Deacons with the latest academic research and practical tools…

Center fellow Matthew Phillips traveled this week to the corporate headquarters of Ernst & Young to meet with EY’s Americas Ethics and Compliance Officer this week. Prof. Phillips and Jeffrey Hoops, a partner at EY, talked about the firm’s ethics training and efforts to form professional identity. They talked about case studies and the challenges…

Center director Sean Hannah, Wilson chair in business ethics and professor of management, is a co-author on a paper published recently by the highly-regarded Academy of Management Journal. The paper, titled “Different hats, different obligations: plural occupational identities and situated moral judgments,” addresses the way management professionals make decisions based on their occupational identities. An engineer…

Center fellow Matthew Phillips profiled Rear Admiral Daniel O’Toole (JD ‘80) who retired recently from one of the top legal positions in the U.S. military after revolutionizing the responsiveness and effectiveness of the military appellate system. Admiral O’Toole began a career of leadership as a graduate of Wake Forest in 1980 and quickly rose through…

Sean Hannah, Wilson chair in business ethics and professor of management, and his team have completed research to validate their Leader Self and Means Efficacy (LSME) measure. This research is published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Based on the team’s previous research published in Leadership Quarterly, this article expands on this framework for…

Center director Sean Hannah, Wilson chair in ethics and professor of management, and his team have released research into the neurobiology of standout leaders. Hannah’s work, published in Leadership Quarterly, reveals that successful leaders have more developed neural networks in the parts of the brain associated with self-regulation, decision making and memory. Specifically, power spectral analysis…