Integrity and Performance: Making Yourself All That You Can Be

Title: Integrity and Performance: Making Yourself All That You Can Be
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Michael C. Jensen, Ph.D.
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Harvard University

February 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Texas A&M University

About the Speaker

Michael C. Jensen is currently the managing director in charge of organizational strategy at Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm, and the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He earned his A.B. degree in Economics from Macalester College and both his MBA and his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He also has been awarded a number of honorary from universities in Europe and North America. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and has received numerous awards, including the Tjalling C. Koopmans EFACT Conference Award for extraordinary contributions to the economic sciences. Dr. Jensen has served as consultant and board member to various corporations, foundations and governmental agencies and has given expert testimony before congressional and state committees and state and federal courts. In addition, he has lectured widely at seminars, meetings, conventions and educational institutions, and he is Past President of the American Finance Association and the Western Economic Association International. He is the author of more than 90 scientific papers, in addition to numerous articles, comments, and editorials published in the popular media on a wide range of economic, finance and business-related topics, as well as a number of books. His most recent book co-authored with Kevin Murphy and Eric Wruck, CEO Pay and What to Do about It: Restoring Integrity to Both Executive Compensation and Capital-Market Relations was published by Harvard Business School Press in fall 2006.

Abstract

The presentation develops a positive model of integrity that provides the basis of increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. In all aspects of life, personal and business, success depends on honoring one's word, the essence of integrity. Integrity in this context is as important as knowledge and technology in advancing the well-being of the individual, his or her organization and the future of the nation. As such, the presentation gives a prescription for individual access to superior performance and advantage in a competitive world. Through the adoption of this model individuals make themselves, their organizations and society in general the best that they can be.

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