BSP Past Events

Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society & New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Humane Economy, Speaks to Stern community

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NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program welcomed Wayne Pacelle, CEO of The Humane Society, for a lecture and signing of his book, The Humane Economy. Pacelle explained The Humane Society’s mission to protect all animals and to create large-scale organizational change by transforming public policy and corporate behavior.
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Dean Peter Henry and Kerry Kennedy Discuss the Role of Business in Society

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On April 20, 2016, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights hosted a discussion between Dean Peter Henry and Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Topics included the business case for human rights, Ms. Kennedy's history of human rights activism and how investment can be a game changer with respect to human rights in the business context.
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Eleventh Annual Haitkin Lecture

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Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, delivered the 11th annual Haitkin Lecture, hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program, to an audience of undergraduate Stern students. Saifee was joined by Andre Hatchett, who was recently exonerated after serving 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and his brother, Jerry Hatchett.
 
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2016 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture | Robert Frank

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Robert Frank, research scholar at NYU Stern and the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management at Cornell University, delivered the 2016 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture to a packed auditorium of undergraduate students, alumni and guests from the family of alumnus Ashok C.
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10th Annual Haitkin Lecture with Susan Crawford

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Susan Crawford, professor at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, visiting professor at Harvard Law School, contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Guilded Age, delivered the 10th Annual Haitkin lecture, entitled "The Responsive City: Communications in Context."  Hosted by N
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12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference

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The 12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, sponsored by the NYU Stern School of Business and Northeastern D'Amore-McKim School of Business, convened scholars, practitioners and students from around the world to explore topics in social enterprise, innovation, sustainability and impact. The three-day conference explored emerging concepts and themes in social entrepreneurship research.
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