Fully Funded Fellowship Program in Professional Ethics and Ethical Leadership from FASTPE in Germany and Poland

FASPE invites students around the world to participate in the Intensive Two-Week Fellowship Program in Professional Ethics and Ethical Leadership. 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.

About the Fellowship Program:

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 Journalism and Law Fellows, allowing them to broaden their understanding of the role of professionals over shared meals and activities and in several interdisciplinary seminars.

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 between May 2020 and January 2022 and be working as a business professional; or 
• have completed an undergraduate degree in any field between May 2016 and May 2021 and be working as a business professional.

Selection Criteria:

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.

About FASPE:

FASPE was founded in response to two distinct yet interrelated societal forces. The first was a growing concern over the rampant breakdown of ethical values in several of our most important and respected professions. The second was the challenge of memorialization and education as the Holocaust becomes more distant over time. It is FASPE’s challenge to draw contemporary meaning and currency from the increasingly distant Nazi period through the study of the ethical breakdown of the professions in Nazi Germany and what can be learned from this regarding the ethical responsibilities of professionals in our day. In 2019, FASPE awarded fellowships to 69 individuals (14 in Business, 14 in Journalism, 13 in Law, 14 in Medical and 14 in Seminary) out of a large pool of applicants from across the United States and abroad. FASPE’s fellowship programs are led by distinguished faculty comprised of university professors and practicing professionals in the five disciplines, along with leading ethicists and historians who have specific expertise in the role of the professions in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe from 1933 to 1945. FASPE has also been playing a growing role in the public discourse around contemporary ethical issues in the professions through published commentary and participation on public panels by FASPE staff, faculty, and fellows.

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