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FASPE Business challenges its Fellows to recognize their responsibility to act as ethical leaders in their business careers. FASPE begins by examining the actions and choices of German businesses and business executives in enabling and executing Nazi policies. FASPE then draws on this historical example to help Business Fellows grasp their role and responsibility as individuals with influence in their communities and to lead them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing businesses and business professionals.

Each year, FASPE Business awards fellowships to 14 to 16 graduate business students and early-career business professionals. Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty. The program couples the power of place with academic rigor and many informal opportunities for creative exchange.

FASPE draws on a large pool of applicants, whose diverse backgrounds and interests enrich discussions both inside and outside the seminar room. Business Fellows travel with Law and Design & Technology Fellows, allowing them to broaden their understanding of the role of professionals over shared meals and activities and in several interdisciplinary seminars. FASPE Fellowships are fully funded so that financial ability does not affect participation.

Topics

FASPE Business Fellows examine topics such as:

• the complicity of German businesses and business executives in the design and execution of Nazi policies
• legal compliance and corporate social responsibility vs. ethical behavior
• the meaning of ethics in business in the absence of a code of conduct
• the ethics of technological and business innovations
• navigating multiple loyalties to stockholders, customers, employees, vendors and communities
• recognizing multiple motivations and ensuring that motivations align with personal and institutional morals
• tactics to address ethical issues within larger corporate institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

• FASPE Business applicants must be actively pursuing a career in business and fit into one of the following three categories:
  • be enrolled in an MBA or MSc program at the time of their application;
  • have completed their MBA or MSc degree no earlier than May 2020 and be working as a business professional;
  • have completed an undergraduate degree in any field between May 2019 and May 2021 and be working as a business professional.
• Applicants must be 42 or younger as of the application deadline.
• FASPE seeks Fellows who are interested in engaging in discussions with their co-Fellows and faculty, and who have the intellectual and emotional maturity to unpack difficult and controversial issues responsibly and respectfully in small group settings. FASPE selects its Fellows on the basis of their academic background, personal and professional experiences, capacity for leadership and ability to contribute to the program and the alumni community. All applications are welcome and reviewed.

For more information, visit FASPE.