fall 2015

WINSTON UPDATE The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics

• • • PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST • • • IN THIS ISSUE TINA ROSENBERG ASKS, IS PEER PRESSURE A BAD THING? 1 Brennan Symposium: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg asks, Is Peer Pressure a Bad Thing?

2 Chamber Lecture Series: CBS’s Lara Logan talks career-family life balance

2 Winston Ambassador Spotlight

3 Clough Colloquium: Karen Hughes recounts her time in the White House

Photo by Gillooly John 3 Lunch with a Leader: Tina Rosenberg addresses crowd at annual Brennan Symposium. Daniel Koh and John Fish Talk to Students Tina Rosenberg, New York Times Rosenberg’s message centered on the pos- columnist, was the featured itive aspect of peer pressure. She explained 4 Winston Collaboration: speaker at this spring’s Brennan that identifying with a peer group whose Legal Attacks of Nazi Law Analyzed Symposium. Rosenberg’s address message or belief is already aligned with one’s own beliefs is the most effective way was based on her latest book, Join 5 Jenks Leadership Program Update to motivate behavior change. Rosenberg the Club: How Peer Pressure Can supported this notion with two examples, 5 Winston Center Research Activities Transform the World. Prior to the the Florida campaign designed to discour- main talk, Rosenberg met with age teens from starting to smoke; and 6 Fall Events with Winston student groups to illustrate how Otpor, a student movement that helped Center Collaborations they can mobilize one another and overthrow the Serbian dictatorship in the build a successful movement in an 1990s. She noted that the way the messag- effective way. Using some Jenks ing is designed is important. projects as examples, she was able to Making sweeping statements and declara- help students reframe the methods tions does not work, because teens already of engagement and deployment that know that smoking is bad. Fear monger- would result in an effective outcome. ing, such as cautioning that smoking kills, (Continued on page 4) • • • CBS’S LARA LOGAN TALKS CAREER-FAMILY LIFE BALANCE By Gabrielle Hanlon, CSOM '17 and Morgan Dykman, MCAS '18, Winston Center Ambassadors

“… most people will respect you if you are honest, even if they don’t like what you have to say.” – Lara Logan Photo by Gillooly John Lara Logan with Winston Ambassadors.

The Chambers Lecture Series presented is to be told. In her search for informa- and a mother in her field. Although she Lara Logan, 60 Minutes Correspondent and tion, she explained that honesty with the has faced skepticism in her career for CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspon- interviewee is key, saying “most people will being a woman, Logan remains confident dent, to a packed audience. Logan began respect you if you are honest, even if they in her abilities and lets her skills make her by asking the audience, regardless of their don’t like what you have to say.” To Logan, indispensable. She explained: “I could careers, if they would jump on a plane and her career is not simply reporting but re- write, I could tell stories, I could outdo any go to Liberia amid the Ebola epidemic. That searching and investigating each and every of the men in the business. You have to is what Logan did, despite the dangers and story to the fullest. make yourself so valuable that they won’t the pull of family responsibilities. let anyone else do it.” As a mother of two, Logan’s dedication Logan stressed the importance of staying and passion for not only her career, but Logan’s infectious passion left the true to oneself and fair to the subject of the also her family were evident as she spoke. audience inspired. • interview. She wants the story to be their Highlighting the importance of family, she story—they get to decide what message noted the challenges of being a woman

• • • WINSTON AMBASSADOR SPOTLIGHT e g a ebook p c a CVC F Photo from B CoReHUB (Castro, second from right)

Chris Castro ’15 was part of the winning team at this spring’s Boston College Venture Competition. Castro’s team won $20,000 for CoReHUB, a Zillow-type real estate listing platform designed to help commercial tenants and brokers make quick, sound, and effective decisions.•

2 ○ winston update spring 2015 • • • CLOUGH COLLOQUIUM: KAREN HUGHES RECOUNTS HER TIME IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Ambassador Karen Hughes, former you say. Example, she said, is a powerful advisor to President George W. Bush, thing. Leading by example is demonstrat- addressed the audience at the Center’s ing humility, which means reaching out Clough Colloquium in February. Her talk, to the people who know more than you entitled “The CEOs—Clarity, Example, do, listening to others, welcoming dis- Optimism—of Leadership,” was a narrative agreements, and expecting to be told the of her experience working with Bush in the truth from staff. Inspiration and aspiration White House. She definedClarity as having breed Optimism. The leader who is able a clear message that communicates core to see the larger, more important, and values, convictions, and philosophy. Bush more urgent mission or cause—and who told his staff what his priorities were and can enlist people to follow that cause—is what theirs should be, she said, and held also the one who demonstrates confidence them accountable. He was clear about his and hope that the resulting outcome will expectations, and wanted collaboration be successful. Hughes concluded the talk since they were all part of the president’s by urging students to follow their passion team. Hughes stressed the notion that while keeping sight of their priorities. •

Photo by Gillooly John what you do shows more clarity than what Karen Hughes speaks at the Center’s Clough Colloquium.

• • • LUNCH WITH A LEADER: DANIEL KOH AND JOHN FISH TALK TO STUDENTS

the Boston College Board of Trustees. In the CEO of one of the country’s most profit- March, Dan Koh met with students to talk able construction companies. Fish stressed about his work in both the private sector the importance of team and relationship (he is former Chief of Staff of theHuffington building as key components of a business Post) and government, and his plan to use leader’s enduring success. • data analytics and technology to help the City of Boston run more efficiently. During his short tenure, Koh has introduced technology to reduce the city’s permit wait times by 25 percent and to eliminate the tanley 4-month-long system backlog. This past lex S winter, the use of data-tracking systems was never more valuable as when technology

Photo by A was used to track and manage the city’s Daniel Koh massive snowfall and intricate snow plow deployment. Koh’s love for data and tech- As part of the Lunch with a Leader lecture nology promises to usher in a new, modern, oo series, the Winston Center welcomed and connected Boston. In April, John F. rew H Daniel Koh, Chief of Staff of the City of Fish spoke to students about leadership, Boston, and John F. Fish, Chairman and

and how he was able to overcome dyslexia Photo by D CEO of Suffolk Construction and Chair of to become a successful business leader and John Fish

boston college ○ 3 • • • WINSTON COLLABORATION: LEGAL ATTACKS • • • WINSTON UPDATE OF NAZI LAW ANALYZED By Gus Merrell, The Heights Staff Editor Germany and Western Europe. Panels Richard Keeley focused on the impact that the Nuremberg laws had on Jews in both Germany and Chief Writer France; they also examined the effect that Monetta Edwards the Nazi laws had on medical and religious policies within the Third Reich, and took

oldt Contributors a closer look at the Nuremberg trials, Morgan Dykman her S her p which resulted in the conviction of many Mary Ann Glynn prominent leaders within Nazi Germany for Gabrielle Hanlon war crimes committed beginning in 1933. Gus Merrell “Once the law was kicked out, the new Photo by Christo totalitarian system moved into place,” said Third Reich panel Photography Professor John Michalczyk, the Director John Gillooly of Film Studies and Co-Director of Jewish Legally Blind, a two-day conference Drew Hoo Studies at Boston College. “This conference sponsored by several groups on campus, Christopher Soldt is starting at that point and ending with the including the Winston Center for Alex Stanley Nuremberg Trials, where everything that Leadership and Ethics and the Jewish happened during the 12-year period was Studies program, brought scholars together Design subject to the law.” to discuss the effects that the Nazi laws • Progressive Print Solutions had on civil laws, race, and religion within Copy Editing Linda Walsh

Please send editorial correspondence to • • • PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST [email protected]. TINA ROSENBERG… (Continued from page 1) Copyright ©2015 Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics backfires. Counting on experts also fails, be- Rosenberg cautioned that not all effective Printed in the U.S.A. cause they are public health professionals movements are sustainable. In the case of All rights reserved. who use statistics to promote the message, Florida’s no smoking campaign, the results Email: [email protected] and research confirms that this is not an were initially positive and saw a decline Phone: 617-552-9296 effective way to reach the teen population. in teen smoking. However, the tobacco The group behind the campaign identified companies lobbied to have the messaging that teens start to smoke in rebellion to be health focused and won. After the being told that they should not do it. Using overthrow of Slobodan Miloševi´c, the • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • the tobacco companies’ ads to demonstrate purpose of the Otpor movement became www.bc.edu/winstoncenter that teens were actually being told by the moot. Rosenberg concluded her talk by • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • tobacco companies to smoke, the group reiterating that the best person to deliver If you would like to make a contribution used this premise to instigate teen rebellion a message is one’s peer. She reminded us to help support the Winston Center, against the tobacco companies. that convincing someone to agree with your please contact Renee LeBlanc DeCesare belief is not the tactic to employ since that During the Serbian dictatorship, people felt at 617-552-4400. person probably already shares a similar powerless, and the Otpor movement was Website: www.bc.edu/leadership belief. Rather, it is the ability to move that created to mobilize them to action. Starting person from passivity to mobility that with 11 members and no hierarchal struc- brings about the most effective change. ture, the group’s strategy was to recruit, • train, and act. Employing pranks and street theater to speak out about the evils of the dictatorship attracted and engaged others to join the cause; two years later, the group had a membership of more than 70,000.

boston college ○ 4 • • • JENKS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM UPDATE WINSTON CENTER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES By Mary Ann Glynn • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

CONFERENCES More than 20 BC faculty and doctoral students presented at the 2015 Academy of Management meetings in Vancouver, Brit- ish Columbia. BC attendees presented a wide array of research-oriented topics that included: organizational change, creativity, entrepreneurship, strategy, competitive dynamics, identity, institutions, and social Jenks at USNA Leadership Conference issues in management. Assistant Professor Sean Martin presented a research project In January, Student Directors (Class of 2015) Ted Raddell ’15 and Michael Stanley ’15 attended on leadership (conducted with a Cornell the 2015 Leadership Conference at the United States Naval Academy. The conference, entitled colleague) entitled, “When Will She Be a “Leading in an Interconnected World,” featured speakers from various industries who talked Leader? The Effect of Voice and Gender on about the effects on leadership in the age of advancing technology. Retired Four-Star General Leader Emergence.” Stanley A. McChrystal was the keynote speaker. Faculty and PhD students presented dozens of papers, symposia, and professional developmental workshops; some of these were designated as Showcase Symposia, indicating that they were in the top 10% of all symposia. One of these, focusing on organizational persistence and imprinting, with BC Professor Mary Ann Glynn and BC alumnus and HBS Professor Ryan oldt Raffaelli, won the Organization and her S her p Management Theory (OMT) Division Best Symposium Award.

NEW FACULTY Photo by Christo Jenks presentations 2015 The Management and Organization department welcomes its newest As- Class of 2015 Projects: Four teams presented in April to an audience that included Bob and sistant Professor, Suntae Kim, who was Judy Winston and Jenks alumni, representing classes from the 1970s and 1980s. For this just awarded his PhD from the University year’s projects, two of the groups partnered with Relay for Life. Smoke-Free BC is an initia- of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. tive focused on making BC a smoke-free campus, which the Undergraduate Government of Professor Kim is the winner of a Robert L. Boston College (UGBC) plans to advance. Jenks Loves Mail, a letter-writing campaign with Kahn Fellowship for the Scientific Study notes of love and encouragement to survivors and women fighting cancer, was received with of Social Issues. His dissertation research much enthusiasm, and the Relay for Life organizers have asked that this initiative be repeat- contrasts two business incubator compa- ed next year. The Mini Jenks at Bird Street Community Center team used games and skits nies in Detroit—one a more conventional to teach team-building and conflict resolution skills to middle schoolers, while thePassing venture capital backed entrepreneurial It Forward team facilitated workshops with high schoolers at the Roxbury Youth Program to startup, and the other an innovative social foster learning and leadership, and encourage students to pursue higher education. enterprise that sought to give back to the • community. Although the finance-oriented incubator has its merits, Professor Kim sees more benefit for the community and for sustainable goals in the social enter- prise. (For more information, see http:// home.isr.umich.edu/sampler/suntae-kim-a- fresh-look-at-corporate-capitalism/). 5 ○ winston update spring 2015 • FIRST CLASS PRESORT U.S. POSTAGE WINSTON CENTER PAID RESEARCH ACTIVITIES BOSTON, MA PERMIT NO. 54465 By Mary Ann Glynn Fulton Hall 255 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808

• • • FALL EVENTS

September 15: Clough Colloquium Winston Center Collaborations THE WINSTON CENTER IS ON TWITTER Julia Gillard, Former Prime October 20 Minister of Australia @bcwinstoncenter Location: Robsham Theater Sarah Chayes, Author, Thieves of State: Time: 4:00 p.m. Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Location: Gasson Hall LIKE US ON FACEBOOK Time: 6:00 p.m. September 29: Lunch with a Leader www.facebook.com/BCWinstonCenter Lindsay LoBue, Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs October 21 WEB FEATURES Location: Fulton Honors Library Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author, Between The Winston Center has video available of Time: 12:00 p.m. the World and Me many past keynote lectures, including speak- Location: Gasson Hall ers from the Clough Colloquium, Chambers Time: 7:00 p.m. Lecture Series, and Winston Forum on October 7: Forum on Business Ethics Business Ethics. You can find these videos Dr. Rajiv Shah, Distinguished Fellow, by visiting www.bc.edu/winstoncenter. Georgetown University, School of Foreign November 3: Chambers Lecture Series Service; Former Administrator, USAID Carey Lohrenz, Former Lieutenant, Location: Gasson Hall United States Navy Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Murray Room, Yawkey Center Time: 6:00 p.m.

November 10: Clough Colloquium Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Location: Gasson Hall Time: 4:00 p.m.