Allegacy Financial Center for Leadership & Character Article Archives

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…