Work with us to equip a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders with the tools to brave ethical dilemmas.
The Principled Entrepreneurial Action and Knowledge (PEAK) project prioritizes applied ethics in entrepreneurship education. PEAK is an educational collaboration led by Stanford University, Duke University and the University of St. Thomas.
It’s time to start teaching applied ethics.
Formal entrepreneurship education has too often relegated ethics to the fringes of the curriculum.
Entrepreneurs and innovators influence every aspect of our lives. The effects of breakthrough technologies and disruptive enterprises cut across industries, institutions and academic disciplines.
The next generation requires a robust toolkit for creating ethical solutions at scale.
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We need your help to generate a new era of entrepreneurship education:
We elevate ethics by convening conversations that demonstrate the importance of principles and values to entrepreneurial ventures.
We empower educators by sharing learning tools that help future innovators experience and understand the complexity of ethical dilemmas.
There are many ways to help as an educator, institution or student.
PEAK Fellows is an opportunity for Stanford undergraduate and co-term students to explore what it means to develop guiding values and principles in the context of entrepreneurial businesses. It will place students who are working in technology ventures into cohorts of eight fellow students. Through readings and bi-weekly meetings, each student will define a set of principles that resonates with them. These principles will be designed to guide fellows in the future as they shape teams and seek to align their career decisions with their values. PEAK Fellows will come away with a heightened understanding of their own values, a close-knit community of peers, and the tools necessary to brave ethical dilemmas in the future.
Please contact Gopal Raman or Brooke Martin with any questions about applying to PEAK Fellows.
The application for the Summer 2020 PEAK Fellows is now closed.
| Reading for Entrepreneurship Educators on Applied-Ethics | |
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| Stanford eCorner | Teaching Principled Entrepreneurship |
| Stanford eCorner | The Student Role in Shaping Entrepreneurial Ethics |
| VentureWell | 4 Strategies to Integrate Ethics into Entrepreneurship Education |
| NYU Entrepreneurial Institute | Ethical Entrepreneurship in Education |
| PacificStandard | Are Elite Institutions Teaching Students the Wrong Values? |
| Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative | Entrepreneurship Education 2.0: Redefining Value Creation – Putting Purpose Before Profit |
| BizEd | Teaching Entrepreneurship, Cultivating Antifragility |
| HBR | The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over |
| Materials That We Use in Our Courses | |
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| Stanford eCorner | Stanford Innovation Lab: The Entrepreneurship & Ethics Podcast |
| Stanford eCorner | Tristan Harris on Making Technology Less Manipulative |
| AOM Insights | Facing an Ethical Dilemma? Try This Approach |
| Stanford Insights | Are You an Ethical Leader? |
| Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship | Making the Ethical Decision |
| Applied Ethics Projects |
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| Stanford Ethics, Society and Technology, a presidential initiative at Stanford University |
| Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, a project of the National Academy of Engineering |
| Ethics Unwrapped, a project from McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin |
| Ethics in Entrepreneurship, non-profit founded by the Theranos whistleblowers |
| National Ethics Project, a project from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University |
| Technology Ethics, a key focus area at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University |
Listen to The Podcast Stanford Innovation Lab: Entrepreneurship & Ethics
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We are grateful for the robust collaboration from colleagues at Stanford and around the world. A very special thank you to the students who’ve worked on the PEAK project. We could not be more fired up about ushering in a new decade of entrepreneurship education that integrates applied ethics.
