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Unrealized Potential: Misconceptions About Corporate Purpose and New Opportunities for Business Education

We clarify the widespread assumption that shareholders own the corporation, then explore the implications for what is being taught to business students about value creation, risk, accountability, good management, and good governance.

BY Miguel Padró & 1 more

Publication

05.01.2014
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Keep Your Day Job and Find Meaning in Your Work

The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program recently launched a new series focusing on the innovation economy — in particular, how to succeed in the new business and social environment of the 21st century. The first of the events, "Social Intrapreneurship: Keeping Your Day Job and Finding Meaning in Your Work," gathered members of the program's First Movers Fellowship to discuss, among other things, how to align business with the long-term health of society.

Blog Post

03.27.2014
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Obama and the Business of Climate Change

In response to last night's State of the Union address, Aspen Institute program directors are reacting to President Barack Obama's promises to tackle some ...

Blog Post

01.29.2014
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What Makes a Good Business Leader?

Judith Samuelson is the executive director and creator of the Business and Society Program, an independently supported program at the Aspen Institute found ...

Blog Post

01.08.2014
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Meeting the Talent Challenge, Business Education Symposium Report - 2013

In New York City on September 26-27, 2013, the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program hosted a symposium focused on exemplary teaching at the busin ...

Publication

10.30.2013
Business School

WATCH: Leading Business School Deans on Meeting Today’s Talent Challenge

Are today’s business schools building a supply of leaders who can act wisely and effectively, and who can balance public and private interests? This ...

BY Nancy McGaw

Blog Post

10.21.2013
Business School

Recognition of Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award Winners & Finalists

Nancy McGaw, Deputy Director of the Business & Society Program and Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Business & Society Program recognize ...

Video

10.07.2013
Business School

Today’s Talent Challenge – Seeking Brave, Path-Bending Leaders

Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, The Aspen Institute (Moderator)Sally Blount, Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern UniversityRichard Lyons ...

Video

10.07.2013
Business School

First Mover Fellow Instrumental in Corporate Governance Changes

In anticipation of the shareholders' vote on whether JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon would keep both of his titles and positions—he ...

BY Institute Contributor

Blog Post

05.21.2013
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