From the Dean: The Role of Leadership in Managing Risk

"...You can't control people through policies, procedures and policing. You can only do it through a strong risk management culture and absolute integrity in all leaders." Leadership on Trial, A Manifesto for Leadership Development, p. 39, comment recorded in Montreal. This observation is one of the thousands shared by the 300 C-suite executives, who participated in a series of candid discussions spearheaded by a group of Ivey faculty over the past year. Our basic purpose in bringing together these executives was to find out if better leadership could have made a difference in preventing the financial meltdown that led to the recent global economic crisis.