Business and Inequality: A Dialogue on Business and Business Education
**Registration is required. Register online here!**
Agenda — as of 10/6/15
More and more business leaders are recognizing inequality not only as a daunting social issue—but as a problem for their business—affecting their workforce, their ability to innovate, and their ability to grow over the long-term.
Please join us for an evening of Aspen-style dialogue, featuring master teachers from business schools at Harvard, MIT, and Northwestern. How are they preparing next generation leaders to act? How are pioneering firms taking action now—and where are the gaps?
Evening highlights include:
– plenary dialogues,
– a live business school case study, and
– a cocktail party celebrating our 2015 Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award Winners.
Registration will open at 3:15pm, and our first session will begin promptly at 3:35pm.
A more detailed agenda is available online as well as an expected participant list.
Advanced readings will be distributed prior to the event.
*No refunds will be issued for this event.*
Questions? Contact iris.malfetano@aspeninstitute.org.
About the Faculty Pioneer Awards
The 2015 award winners are:
- David Besanko, IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practices, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
- Shawn Cole, John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- Dima Jamali, Professor and Kamal Shair Chair in Responsible Leadership, Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut
- Thomas Kochan (Lifetime Achievement Award Winner), George M. Bunker Professor of Work and Employment Relations, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); and Co-Director, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT
This year we accepted nominations of business school faculty who are teaching (at the graduate level) about business practices that contribute to an economy that works for all.
Our focus on this topic stems from considerable concern about growing economic inequality, both here in the U.S and around the world. Naturally, many conversations about remedies to inequality focus on policy interventions. But historically, business has been a principal actor in building and expanding the middle class. Given today’s global and hyper-competitive markets, and the availability of technologies that allow process improvements—often with fewer employees — it is hard to imagine business reverting to a U.S. 1950s-style social contract. But how can firms and business leaders act today to contribute to shared prosperity and long-term growth?
**Registration is required. Register online here!**
Support Provided by The Hitachi Foundation and Ford Foundation.
Please join us for an evening of Aspen-style dialogue, featuring master teachers from business schools at Harvard, MIT, and Northwestern. How are they preparing next generation leaders to act? How are pioneering firms taking action now—and where are the gaps? The 2015 Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award Winners will be recognized for their achievements. The evening will close with cocktails and conversation.