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Advice on Leadership and Self-Awareness

Please allow me to speak directly to today’s graduates. You’ve secured a degree from a high-quality university with demanding academic requirements. Yo ...

BY Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr.

Blog Post

06.24.2016
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Inequality: A Problem Worthy of a Business Response

The Middle Class is shrinking.

BY Judy Samuelson

Blog Post

12.18.2015
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The State of the Union — and our Nation’s Business Schools

At the Business Education Symposium, participants discuss how MBA education can be changed to improve employment practices and the economy.

BY Claire Preisser

Blog Post

01.26.2015
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Meeting Our Highest Aspirations for Capitalism -2014

This report is focused on exemplary teaching at the business and society interface with a particular emphasis on sourcing and employment practices-leveraging increased consumer demand for "responsible" labor practices and supply chains, and employer demand for graduates with strong operational skills.

BY Business and Society Program

Publication

01.09.2015
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Next-Gen Business Thinking

Reshaping business education to ensure CEOs look beyond the bottom line.

BY Judy Samuelson

Blog Post

10.09.2014
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Announcing the 2014 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Awards

The Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Awards celebrate educators who demonstrate leadership and risk-taking — and blaze a trail toward curriculum and scholarship that deeply examines the relationships between capital markets, firms, and the public good.

Blog Post

09.24.2014
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Transforming Undergraduate Business Education

The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program recently published a series of blog posts on LinkedIn focused on the future of undergraduate business education. At a time of some tumult in higher education, these pieces are penned by faculty and administrators with a strong commitment to improving the quality of undergraduate business education — and with specific ideas for doing so.

BY Claire Preisser

Blog Post

09.19.2014
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Why B-Schools Should be Teaching Market Basket

Far from being a regional business story, the fate of this feuding family's grocery store empire offers up a compelling case study about the purpose of business, the potential to rethink the sclerotic state of labor-management relations, and the obligations of family members and insiders to their employees when considering whether to "sell out" to private equity.

Blog Post

08.19.2014
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What Hobby Lobby Got Right

You wouldn’t know it from the outrage triggered by the recent Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case, but the majority decision clarified a hot legal question that has little to do with religious freedom.

BY Miguel Padro, Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

Blog Post

07.22.2014
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