Honors & Awards

Joan Bavaria Recipient of The 2005 Botwinick Prize in Ethics(A)

On Friday, October 7, 2005, Trillium Asset Management President Joan Bavaria was presented with The Botwinick Prize in Ethics at Columbia Business School.
The Botwinick Prize in Ethics was established with a generous endowment from the late Benjamin Botwinick, BS ’26, and his wife, Bessie. Each year the Botwinick Prize in Ethics recognizes an outstanding leader who exhibits the highest standards of ethical conduct in business or the professions. Past recipients include Lord Browne of Madingley, group chief executive of BP p.l.c.; Henry Kravis ’69, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and founder and chairman of the New York City Investment Fund; and Howard Shultz, chairman and chief global strategist of Starbucks Coffee Company.
The Botwinick Prize is organized under the auspices of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadship and Ethics and is an integral part of Columbia Business School’s Individual, Business and Society curriculum, which emphasizes a commitment to leadership and ethics through core courses, extracurricular activities and research.
Benjamin Botwinick Prize winner Joan Bavaria discusses socially responsible investing in today’s markets on Forbes.com.