Ph.D./D.B.A. in Values-Driven Leadership -- Curriculum Overview

The Ph.D./D.B.A. Program in Values-Driven Leadership is housed within Benedictine University’s College of Business, Center for Values-Driven Leadership -- a globally-linked network of top universities, corporations, executives, thought leaders, and other partners dedicated to advancing responsible business through research and education. The Center is currently engaged in a multi-year learning initiative focused on studying the exemplary practices of values-driven companies and disseminating them via executive-oriented, web-based, multimedia learning channels. Students in the Ph.D./D.B.A. Program will work closely with faculty to advance this learning agenda, and after graduation, they have the option of remaining an active part of the Center as Partners or Associates.

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

Exemplars

• Boston Common Asset Management made a proposal to Aflac CEO, Dan Amos, to make himself the first U.S. CEO to have his pay voted on by shareholders. As part of the company's commitment to transparency, the decision was made to do it. See Aflac CEO's commitment.
• Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, dreams of eradicating poverty as we know it and rethinking the relationship between the rich and the poor. Here he discusses The Social Business Model and how it is a radical departure from the modern profit-maximizing entity. See it here.
• How does an established company open itself up to allow for new innovation - especially in areas of sustainability? Stu Hart, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads and an expert in business sustainability, shares his thoughts on how successful companies can make space for dynamic innovation, leading to a healthier company AND planet. This video was recorded as part of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership's Senior Executive Roundtable series. For more on the CVDL and this series, visit www.cvdl.org. Sustainability and Innovation
• The Center for Values-Driven Leadership View Video

RECOMMENDED READING

• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
  ~ Peter M. Senge
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
  ~ Paul Hawken