Many organizations and individuals have helped make this book possible and, more important, contributed their insights and support to the development of the Giving Voice to Values concept and initiative.
Thank you to GVV’s founding partners, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and Yale School of Management, for their early faith in this initiative and their financial support. In particular, my gratitude to Judith Samuelson for her vision and confidence, Joel Podolny for his willingness to make a leap of faith, and the Robert J. Silver ’50 Fund for Innovation in Management Education at the Yale School of Management for its investment. At the Aspen Institute, thank you also to Chad Ayotte, Rebecca Darr, Justin Goldbach, John Hollwitz, Suzanne Lanza, Rich Leimsider, Linda Lehrer, Nancy McGaw, Neela Pal, Sarah Reinhoff, Sangeeta Renade, Alex Roberts, Rachel Shattuck, and the rest of the staff who have supported this work. At Yale School of Management, a special thank you to Ira Millstein, who worked with me to develop materials and who, along with Daylian Cain, piloted this work in their courses.
Thank you to the Fetzer Institute and Thomas Beech for their support of the early pilot study, and to Columbia Graduate School of Business for important and formative lessons learned from its commitment to raise and explore ethics and values-driven leadership in the curriculum. In particular at Columbia, thank you to Ray Horton, Paul Glasserman, Sandra Navalli, Mike Feiner, Bruce Kogut, William Klepper, Sharon Sarosky, Clelia Peters, Joel Brockner, and Daniel Ames.
I am grateful to Babson College, in particular Len Schlessinger and Shahid Ansari, for their more recent engagement and deep commitment to this work, both financially as well as intellectually, and their dedication to extending its impact on global curricula in entrepreneurial thought and action.
Much gratitude goes to all the business practitioners who generously shared their time and experiences and learning gained from voicing their values as the basis of the insights and case examples here. Thanks also to the many faculty members and institutions that have been early intellectual contributors, adopters, and supporters, as well as partners in the development of materials and teaching. They are too numerous to name, but a number of individuals require particular thanks: Minette Drumwright at the University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Woo and Jessica McManus at Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business; Ranjini Swamy at Goa Institute of Management; Leigh Hafrey and Neil Hartman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J. D. Schramm and Beth Benjamin at Stanford University; Jane Cote, Joseph Cote, Jerry Goodstein, and Claire Latham at Washington State University, Vancouver; Maureen Scully at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; Cynthia Ingols, Deborah Marlino, Sylvia Maxfield, Deborah Merrill-Sands, Paul Myers, and Mary Shapiro at Simmons School of Management; Linda Hill, Joseph Badaracco, Thomas Piper, Michael Jensen, Sandra Sucher, and Bill Ellet at Harvard Business School; Henri-Claude de Bettignies at Euro-China Centre for Leadership and Responsibility of the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai; N. Craig Smith, INSEAD; Zucheng Zhou at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Morley Su, president of Energy Systems International and director of corporate strategy for the Pacific Millennium Group; Linda Angell and Andy Klein at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; David Webb, Mark Edwards, and Stacie Chappell at the University of Western Australia Business School, Perth; Ram Ramnarayan at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Piya Mukherjee, Mumbai; Marcy Crary, Tony Buono, and Rosa Lee Hunter at Bentley College; Jean Kilgore and Robin Dubin at Case Western Reserve University; Mark Dillard at Emory University; Mark Mallinger at Pepperdine University; Christopher Adkins at the College of William and Mary; Roy Lewicki at Ohio State University; Michael Santoro at Rutgers University; Robin Johnson at the University of California, Los Angeles; Daniel Arce, University of Texas, Dallas; George Brenkert at Georgetown University; Dolores Heffernan Smith at University College, Dublin; Margie Parikh at Gujarat University; Jody Hoffer Gittell at Brandeis University; Cliff Hakim; Jorge Fontanez; Gina Vega at Salem State College; Daniel Malan and Jako Volschenk at University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa.
Thank you most especially to my editor at Yale University Press, Michael O’Malley, who saw the book even before I did and has been unfailingly supportive throughout its development.
Most important and always, thank you to my life’s partner, my best friend, my intellectual and emotional touchstone and wish-fulfilling jewel, Mary H. Jacobsen.