Our Mission
The purpose of the Business and Society Program Area (BSPA) is to ensure that every Stern student graduates with a strong understanding of his or her responsibilities as a business professional, and with a keen appreciation for the role of ethics and law in creating and maintaining efficient markets and best business practices.
The focus of the Business and Society Program Area program is necessarily interdisciplinary: it challenges students to look beyond their functional expertise and understand how their work affects the broader issues of a firm’s performance, culture, and capital structure, as well as market creation, function, and regulation.
Business and Society Program Area course work draws upon ideas from many academic disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, law, marketing, and philosophy. Course cases and problems require students to integrate theory from these fields to arrive at balanced and well-considered judgments about complex business situations.
All Business and Society Program Area courses and events are designed to leverage Stern’s New York City location through the outstanding adjunct professors who teach in the program and the broad range of guest speakers who visit individual classes.
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Save The Date
The Tenth Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics, Integrating Sustainability Into Capital Markets
March 1, 2013.
Organized by NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and Business & Society Program Area, with generous support from the Citi Foundation, the conference featured this year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics, Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres.
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Bruce BuchananDirector, Business & Society Program Area
C.W. Nichols Professor of Business Ethics
Professor of Marketing
Email: bbuchana@stern.nyu.edu
Rachel Kowal
Deputy Director, Business & Society Program Area
Clinical Professor of Business Law
Email: rkowal@stern.nyu.edu
Tisch Hall
40 West Fourth Street
Suite 400
New York, NY 10012
News
Marking its tenth year, NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program appointed Mindy S. Lubber, president and founding board member of Ceres, a nonprofit organization that advocates the adoption of sustainable business practices, as its 2012-2013 Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics.
Professor Jonathan Haidt's new book, "The Righteous Mind," is reviewed: Excerpt from The New York Times — "In 'The Righteous Mind,' Haidt seeks to enrich liberalism, and political discourse generally, with a deeper awareness of human nature."
