Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Collaborative Strategy in Action
November 18, 2025
Dr. Kira Reed, Associate Professor of Management at the Whitman School of Management
A changing landscape for higher education is requiring colleges and universities to better communicate their value and societal impact to stakeholders, as well as prepare students to more effectively communicate their job readiness skills and contributions to their community.
This presentation will describe ways in which business scholars affiliated with the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University have learned to engage alumni (including board members), policy makers, and community partners about the practical implications of their research.
Tips will be provided for how to replicate this engagement by scholars across other business schools without straying from their primary academic research responsibilities.
Friday, December 12, 2025
Unpacking Polarizing Perspectives Using Moral Foundations Theory
Rachael Daily Goodwin, Assistant Professor of Management at the Whitman School of Management
We'll explore five core moral values that are consistently recognized across cultures, drawing from Moral Foundations Theory to offer leaders a research-based framework for understanding moral conflict. These values—care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and purity/degradation—help explain why people respond differently to ethical issues in the workplace.
Grounded in robust psychological research, this session will show how these moral foundations shape our judgments of others, especially in complex or emotionally charged situations. For example, we'll examine how moral values influence reactions to unethical leadership and sexual harassment and discuss emerging insights into how racialized moral conflicts are perceived.
The goal is to help leaders recognize how moral intuitions can unconsciously bias decision-making—and to better navigate moralized conflicts at work with the ability to see alternative perspectives.