The 2025 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics

Clara Wu Tsai, Co-Owner, New York Liberty and Brooklyn Nets

Monday, April 7
Geffen Hall
5:30pm: Networking Reception (Alumni Suite)
6:00pm: Ceremony and Fireside Chat (Cooperman Commons)

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The Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics recognizes an individual or representative of a business organization exemplifying the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct. The Prize was established in 1989 by a generous gift from the late Benjamin Botwinick BS '26 and his wife, Bessie.

This year, the Botwinick Prize will be bestowed upon Clara Wu Tsai, co-owner of the New York Liberty and Brooklyn Nets and founder of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation. Following the award ceremony, Clara will discuss her empowered leadership style and generous philanthropic efforts with Bernstein Faculty Director Modupe Akinola. 

About Clara Wu Tsai

Clara Wu Tsai is a businesswoman, investor, and philanthropist. Ms. Wu Tsai is the Governor and an owner of the WNBA's New York Liberty and an owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. As Vice Chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company, she oversees all matters relating to fan development, civic and community engagement, and, the role Barclays Center plays within Brooklyn.

As Founder of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, Ms. Wu Tsai pursues philanthropic investments across the arts, science and social justice spaces. She established the Social Justice Fund in 2020 to work toward economic mobility and racial justice in Brooklyn, New York. She is a founding partner of the REFORM Alliance, which seeks to reform the criminal justice system.

In science and technology, the Foundation supports the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University for understanding human cognition. In 2020, Ms. Wu Tsai founded the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, which works across six universities to bring together world-class talent to advance the science of human performance.

Ms. Wu Tsai serves on the Boards of Trustees for Stanford University, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. She was an executive producer of Into the Okavango, a 2018 conservation documentary, Blue Bayou, a 2021 drama, and Unfinished Business, a 2022 documentary about the WNBA.

Previously, Ms. Wu Tsai was General Manager of the Hong Kong operations of Taobao, China’s largest online shopping website, and a Vice President at American Express in New York and Hong Kong. Ms. Wu Tsai holds a B.A. in International Relations and a M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.