Darden Second Year Chosen for Fellowships at Auschwitz Ethics Program
By Jay Hodgkins
The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) announced that it has selected University of Virginia Darden School of Business Second Year Kyle Perez as one of 12 business students chosen to participate in its two-week ethics program in Germany and Poland this summer.
The 2017 program will be led by Darden Professor Mary Gentile and uses the conduct of executives and managers in Nazi-occupied Europe as a way to reflect on ethics in business and leadership today. Perez is one of 63 FASPE fellows selected from more than 1,000 applicants around the world.
“I am looking forward to participating in FASPE as a means to improve my ability to empathize with and better understand viewpoints that may be in stark contrast to my own,” Perez said in a release issued by the program. “FASPE will provide me with two weeks of serious introspection, difficult but productive debates, and the challenge of rethinking the way in which I have thought about and framed ethical issues in the past.”
Perez continues a successful run of Darden students selected for the program, including Katherine Salisbury (Class of 2017) last year and Jacob Shmukler (MBA ’15) in 2015.
Darden’s Center for Global Initiatives (CGI) recently featured Perez — who will work for Danaher Corp. subsidiary Hach Co. after graduation — for his efforts to seize as many global academic opportunities as possible while enrolled at the School.
Kyle’s first international trip through Darden was the Kaizen program in Japan, and it remains his favorite global Darden experience yet. “It was a wake-up call of putting what I learned from Darden to work,” explained Kyle. Kaizen is Japanese for continuous improvement, aptly-named for these trips which are designed to give students the opportunity to work alongside company employees in another country to study and maximize the efficiency of designated processes in a week’s time.
Read more about Perez on CGI’s Global Voices of Darden blog.
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