The Power of Ideals

William Damon is Professor of Education and Director of the Center on Adolescence at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He is the author of eighteen books, including Greater Expectations, which won the Parent's Choice Book Award. Damon's reserach has been covered in many national publications, including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, USA Today, theWall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.Anne Colby is Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Previously, she was director of the Henry Murray Research Center at Harvard University and Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Colby is the recipient of the Kuhmerker Award from the Association of Moral Education for life-time achievement in the fieldof moral development, and is an author of nine books, including Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education which won theFrederick W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Her research has been covered in national publications such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, and the Wall Strees Journal.