Event Details
April 19-21, 2022
Virtual event
The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership & The Barbara and David A. Koch Virtual Series
Profit, Public Policy, and People
What have we learned about business & ethics from the pandemic?
As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best and worst in human behavior, it has also brought out the best and worst in business behavior.
This virtual series seeks to learn from the ethical successes and failures of businesses during the pandemic to guide the future promise and purpose of business. With expert commentary from business, medicine, academia, and civil society, we will explore ethical challenges that are faced and continue to face in business.
Event Schedule
Tuesday, April 19
Who pays the cost of doing business?
11:30-1 p.m. CT
Profit or price-gouging? To what extent is the cost of doing business externalized onto stakeholders? Have "corners been cut" manufacturing at warp speed?
With guest speakers:
Alison Taylor
Executive Director at NYU Stern School of Business
Ed Freeman
University of Virginia Darn School of Business Elis & Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society
Wednesday, April 20
How can businesses support or harm public health?
11:30 - 1 p.m. CT
Better understand the tensions healthcare businesses face simultaneously advancing profitability and increasing access to care.
With guest speaker:
MayKao Y. Hang
University of St. Thomas
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Founding Dean Morrison Family College of Health
Thursday, April 21
Employees: Humans or cogs?
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. CT
How should businesses attract and retain workers after the Great Resignation and distinguish essential from non-essential work in an intersected global economy?
With guest speakers:
Joanne Ciulla
Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers Business School
Doug Lepisto
Associate Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy
Tuesday, April 19
Who pays the cost of doing business?
11:30-1 p.m. CT
Profit or price-gouging? To what extent is the cost of doing business externalized onto stakeholders? Have "corners been cut" manufacturing at warp speed?
With guest speakers:
Alison Taylor
Executive Director at NYU Stern School of Business
Ed Freeman
University of Virginia Darn School of Business Elis & Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society
Wednesday, April 20
How can businesses support or harm public health?
11:30 - 1 p.m. CT
Better understand the tensions healthcare businesses face simultaneously advancing profitability and increasing access to care.
With guest speaker:
MayKao Y. Hang
University of St. Thomas
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Founding Dean Morrison Family College of Health
Thursday, April 21
Employees: Humans or cogs?
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. CT
How should businesses attract and retain workers after the Great Resignation and distinguish essential from non-essential work in an intersected global economy?
With guest speakers:
Joanne Ciulla
Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers Business School
Doug Lepisto
Associate Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy
Discussion Moderators:
Christopher Michaelson
University of St. Thomas Opus College
Distinguished professor of Principled Leadership and the Academic Director of the Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership
Harry Van Buren III
University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business
Barbara and David A. Koch Endowed Chair of Business Ethics
Contact
Nicole Zwieg Daly
JD, EdD, CPPM
Email
nmzwieg@stthomas.edu