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HBR Press presents

What Do You Really Stand For?: The One Question That Will Transform Your Work and Life

What Do You Really Stand For?

with Paul Ingram

May 27, 2026, 8 am EDT / 1 pm BST / 2 pm CET

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Values act as both a compass and a driving force, pointing us toward the right goals and motivating us to pursue them. Once we identify our values and deliberately apply them to our decisions, relationships, and ethics, they become powerful tools for shaping who we are—in every facet of our lives.

 

In What Do You Really Stand For?, Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram presents a set of exercises to help us articulate our values and integrate them into daily life.

 

On May 27, he will join us to explain the process mapped out in his book. With stories from his work with students and executives, he will show that—in moments of uncertainty especially—being crystal clear what we stand for helps us navigate difficult decisions with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

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About the speaker

Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. He has received Columbia’s highest recognition for teaching, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and 13 teaching awards voted by graduating students at Columbia and Cornell Universities. His research has been published in more than one hundred articles, book chapters, and books. 

 
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