2007 Headlines
Dana Radcliffe Appointed Day Family Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics
Dr. Harry M. Day Charitable Foundation Provides Support for Business Ethics Programs at the Johnson School and Law School
September 4, 2007 | Ithaca, NY | The Johnson School at Cornell University announced the establishment of the Day Family Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics Discretionary Fund, an endowed fund that will support business ethics programs at the Johnson School and the Law School. Made possible by the generous donation of the Dr. Harry M. Day Charitable Foundation, the fund also provides financial support for the Day Family Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics, a position to which Dana Radcliffe has been appointed. Radcliffe has been teaching classes in business ethics, corporate responsibility and leadership at the Johnson School since 2000 and has been responsible for leading the school's ethics-related events and initiatives.
In this position, Radcliffe is charged with developing educational programs including courses, symposia, seminars, and guest speakers, which focus on business ethics for students at the Johnson School and the Law School. He will coordinate with his colleagues at the Law School to identify ethics issues which affect legal and business decision making, and will help ensure that ethics curricula initiatives include participation of students from both the Johnson School and the Law School.
Jerrold Day (Eng. '71, MBA '78), partner at the Daylar Group, comments, "The Day family is extremely proud to support Cornell's commitment to leadership in business ethics, especially as a joint effort between the Johnson School and the Law School. We believe this initiative will help tomorrow's professional make business decisions that are consistent with the highest standards for corporate citizenship."
As part of the endowment, the Day family supported bringing John Hueston, former lead prosecutor for the Enron trial, to campus in February 2007 for a joint Johnson School and Law School event entitled "Behind the Scenes of the Enron Investigation and Trial: Creating the Conviction Moments from the Rubble of Corporate Governance Failure." Future joint programs will be developed.
About Dana M. Radcliffe
Professor Radcliffe, who has taught at the Johnson School since 2000, teaches classes in business ethics, corporate responsibility, and leadership. In addition, he is the School's coordinator for ethics-related events and initiatives. He holds concurrent adjunct faculty appointments at Syracuse University, teaching ethics courses in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the Whitman School of Management, and the L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, Radcliffe worked in strategic real estate consulting for Deloitte & Touche in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He earned his BA in philosophy from Fort Hays State University, M. Phil. in philosophy from Yale University, MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and PhD in philosophy from Syracuse University.
About the Johnson School
Founded in 1946, the Johnson School is Cornell University's graduate school of management. Consistently ranked as one of the top graduate schools of business, the Johnson School builds upon Cornell's depth and breadth of distinguished research and teaching, and its vast, worldwide network of alumni, faculty, and colleagues. The school's "performance learning" approach offers students defined frameworks and analytical tools, combined with expert feedback to solve real problems in real organizations. Deliberately small and extremely selective, the Johnson School maintains an intense, collaborative community, where students develop teamwork and networking skills that foster innovation and deliver results. Programs include one- and two-year MBA degrees, an Executive MBA and the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA, which offers interactive videoconferencing sessions across the U.S. and Canada. For more about the Johnson School please visit: www.johnson.cornell.edu.
