Skip to main content

Moral & Ethical Leadership

data-content-type="article"

Balancing Business and Belief

March 22, 2024
Jeff Thompson splits his time between teaching in the MPA program and directing BYU’s new Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership, where he helps others discover how Christ-centered leadership can steer decisions and stabilize organizations.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Using Ethics to Understand the Savior

December 27, 2022
As a student at BYU Marriott, Brad Agle was intrigued by why people act unethically. Now a professor, Agle helps students crack their own tough ethical questions.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Becoming a Disciple-Leader

November 11, 2022
For the past three years, Elder Kim B. Clark has developed and taught a course on leadership and the gospel of Jesus Christ, titled Becoming a Disciple-Leader.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

The Little CSR Trend That Could

June 21, 2022
Rewards or punishments? Both can put business leaders on a track toward corporate social responsibility (CSR).
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Embarking on New Adventures

May 27, 2022
Recent School of Accountancy graduate Emily Holden is excited to use the skills she has gained to serve the environment she loves and the underserved communities she strives to empower.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Implementing BYU Marriott Values

May 05, 2022
The Deans office and student council members of BYU Marriott recently heard from students about how BYU Marriott can better implement its values.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Ethics Conference Encourages Business Leaders, Educators to Find Solutions

March 07, 2022
Business leaders and educators from across the nation recently gathered at BYU Marriott for an ethics annual conference.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

The Moral Laboratory

March 07, 2022
Why and How Your Job Should Help You Become the Best Version of Yourself
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Our Updated BYU Marriott VISION, MISSION, & VALUES

March 01, 2022
What started as a simple discussion quickly evolved into a yearlong journey to refine our BYU Marriott mission, craft a larger vision, and frame a set of values and a guiding principle that would explain what BYU Marriott is about.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Inaugural director of the Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership

June 17, 2021
Jeffery Thompson has been named the first-ever director of the Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership at Brigham Young University.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

U.S. Special Operations Command turns to BYU Marriott researchers for ethics guidance

February 24, 2021
Leaders of U.S. Special Operations Command have turned to the expertise of two BYU Marriott professors for advice on the high-stakes ethical dilemmas their forces face.

overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

BYU announces new Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership

September 17, 2020
Brigham Young University has announced the creation of the David E. and Verla A. Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership.

overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Decisions, Ethics, and Human Potential

August 31, 2020
Every day, people make dozens of morally relevant decisions. BYU Marriott professor Isaac Smith designs his research to help people make good decisions and refine their character.

overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

Risky Business

July 29, 2019
Choose your words wisely. Research from two BYU professors shows that violent language is causing us to play fast and loose with ethics — and even become more aggressive in our personal interactions.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
data-content-type="article"

BYU prof breaks down Uncle Sam’s loans to automakers

November 29, 2018
Did you know the US government is in the business of lending billions to automakers like Ford, Nissan and Tesla?
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=text-left
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment=text-left overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText=