BSP Past Events
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Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performing Companies
Thursday, February 23, 2017The Aspen Institute, in partnership with the NYU Stern Business & Society Program, hosted a conversation with two of America's leading experts in psychology -- Professor Paul Zak (Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies), and Professor Jonathan Haidt (The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion) at the NYU Stern School of Bus -
Market-Beating Performance: A discussion with Jerome Dodson
Tuesday, December 6, 2016I’ve always found managers who value environmental sustainability to be the most successful. - Jerome Dodson
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Sustainability Leadership: How Companies Are Realizing the Value of Sustainability in Their Business Strategies Panel
Thursday, December 1, 2016On December 1, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel discussion, entitled “Sustainability Leadership: How Companies Are Realizing the Value of Sustainability in Their Business Strategies”. -
Innocence Project Attorney Seema Saifee and Exoneree Darryl Howard Speak to the Stern Community
Thursday, October 13, 2016NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program welcomed Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, and Darryl Howard, who was recently exonerated after serving 24 years for a wrongful murder conviction, to speak to an audience of undergraduate Stern students.
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TIME Editor and Author Rana Foroohar Discusses her Book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business"
Thursday, October 6, 2016Stern’s Business & Society Program, in partnership with the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program and the Ford Foundation, welcomed TIME Editor Rana Foroohar to discuss her new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. The conversation was moderated by Fusion Senior Editor Felix Salmon.
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Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society & New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Humane Economy, Speaks to Stern community
Tuesday, September 20, 2016NYU 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
Wednesday, April 20, 2016On 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. -
Eleventh Annual Haitkin Lecture
Tuesday, April 19, 2016Seema 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
Tuesday, April 12, 2016Robert 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. -
Future Jobs Fair
Wednesday, March 30, 2016NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business, VICE Media and Collectively co-hosted the Future Jobs Fair on Wednesday, March 30.