Ethics: The Role of Culture

Speaker

Peter Conti-Brown

Class of 1965 Associate Professor of Financial Regulation

The Wharton School

Peter Conti-Brown’s Biography

CIMA®, CPWA®, CIMC®, and RMA℠ Eligible

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

This is a required session for Year 2.  Dates offered are below.

Option 1: Wednesday, February 10th at 3:00pm ET

Option 2: Tuesday, March 23rd at 9:00am ET

This session will be interactive with group discussion and Q&A.

Course Description

A key component of building individuals, teams, and firms that behave ethically is the elusive concept of culture. Conti-Brown introduces the idea of “cultural engineering,” or the practice of individuals and small groups exerting influence on the way that complex information is understood within larger organizations. Using examples from the financial services industry and from his (and others’) personal lives, Conti-Brown teaches participants that culture is about what individuals bring to the table and cannot be about platitudes and empty vision statements. Instead, culture is about the difficult and essential interaction between personal values and institutional identity.