# Addressing Social Problems in a Polarized Time: As Government Steps Back, Where Can Business Step In?

**Date:** Thursday, May 2 2019
**Location:** NYU Stern, New York, NY 10012
*\*By invitation only*

On Thursday May 2, NYU Stern’s [Business and Society Program](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/business-society-program) will host a conversation looking at the role businesses can play in addressing environmental threats, economic inequality and rising polarization and distrust.

Panelists will include: - [**Jonathan Haidt**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), Stern professor for Business and Society and author of *The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure*
- **Isabel Sawhill** (BA '62, PhD ’68) senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and author of *The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation*
- [**Tensie Whelan**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan), Stern clinical professor for Business and Society and director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

Moderator: - **Peter Georgescu**, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam and author of *Capitalists, Arise!*

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