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What might be the purpose of business and business education in a post-pandemic scenario? Join us to share some impact-driven initiatives and reflect on our academic vocation

  • 1.  What might be the purpose of business and business education in a post-pandemic scenario? Join us to share some impact-driven initiatives and reflect on our academic vocation

    Posted 07-23-2021 11:20
    *** Apologies for cross-posting ***
    Business With Purpose and the Purpose of Business Schools in a Post Pandemic World (session 420)
    Saturday, 31 July 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 EST
    Join us to share some impact-driven initiatives and reflect on our academic vocation 

     

    Both the Covid-19 crisis and the emergence of innovative business models like B-Corps, Conscious Capitalism, and Blueprint for Better Business offer a powerful signal that the foundational assumptions of competitive capitalism are increasingly in doubt.

     

    Business schools, however, appear to be followers rather than leaders in this historical moment of social change. While consumers and businesses are experimenting with new models of capitalism premised on balancing profits with social purpose, business schools have been slow to change and appear to be struggling with their identity and purpose. But, what might be the purpose of business in a post-pandemic scenario? What would a post-pandemic business school look like? What might be the foundational values of a post-pandemic market system?

    This Symposium aims to explore these questions in conversation with four thought leaders and prominent innovators of management education and business practice.

     

    Here you will find a pre-recorded conversation with Jay Coen Gilbert on these questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoVNwp5dDH8

    Please feel free to send your questions to Jay at this link https://forms.gle/i8FbXAhDMHuLteTE7, and we will consider them in the Symposium.

     

    Panellists

    Rajendra Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism Inc

    Jay Coen Gilbert, B Lab / B Corps / Imperative21*

    Gerard George, Georgetown U., McDonough School of Business

    Charles Wookey, Blueprint for Better Business

    *attendance by video recording only. See Jay´s answers to the three questions in the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoVNwp5dDH8

     

    Discussant

    Elaine Cahalan Hollensbe, U. of Cincinnati

     

    Organizers and Facilitators

    Hector Osvaldo Rocha, IAE Business School, Austral University

    Roy R. Suddaby, U. of Victoria

    Michael Andreas Pirson, Fordham U.



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