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2012 Citi/BSPA Conference at NYU Stern: Pamela Flaherty, president and CEO of the Citi Foundation, described Citi’s commitment to practicing responsible finance.
2012 Citi/BSPA Conference at NYU Stern: Alnoor Ladha, head of strategy at Purpose.com, discussed the leap from social enterprise to social innovation and what he calls “the new economy.”
 2012 Citi/BSPA Conference at NYU Stern: Steven Standley, chief administrative officer of University Hospitals in Cleveland, described the economic and social impact of the Greater University Circle Initiative, which aims to revitalize northeast Ohio through infrastructure projects and neighborhood programs.
 2012 Citi/BSPA Conference at NYU Stern: (Pictured from left to right) Innovators Blake Jones, CEO of Namaste Solar; Yorman Nunez, community organizer for the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative; and Nick Iuviene, program manager for community enterprise at the Community Innovators Lab at MIT, shared their stories during a panel discussion led by Bruce Schlein, vice president of environmental affairs at Citi.
 2012 Citi/BSPA Conference at NYU Stern: Professor Bruce Buchanan, director of NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program Area, wrapped up the event, thanking guests, speakers and the Citi Foundation.

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.

– Pedagogy

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.

 

Mark your Calendar

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International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS) 12th International Conference – ISUS XII
Utiltarianism: Exploring the Past Looking to the Future
August 8-11, 2012
Conference Information

Events

Seventh Annual Haitkin Lecture
Prospects for Financial Reform
Delivered by Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
April 12, 2012

The Ninth Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics addressed the theme of “Social Innovation as a Transformative Economic, Social and Political Movement.” March 2, 2012.

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, Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation.

Watch Jeffrey Hollender’s keynote on the key principles of social innovation.

 

 

For more information

Bruce Buchanan
Director, 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
Associate Clinical Professor of Business Law
Email: rkowal@stern.nyu.edu

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News

Jonathan Haidt
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."
 

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