Columbia Business School – Columbia University, 12th Annual Net Impact Conference, Panel Discussion
Participants:
- Srikumar Rao, Professor of Marketing, Long Island University and Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School
- Misha Goussev, Director, Financial Services, New York City
- Alfredo Sfeir Younis, PhD, Senior Adviser, Managing Directors Office, World Bank
- Robert Thurman, Chair of Religious Studies, Columbia University
- Walter Henry Beebe, Founder and President, The New York Open Center
Recent business financial and accounting scandals have fostered increased attention to ethics and social responsibility issues all over the world. Business schools everywhere, including Columbia, have quickly responded to this new landscape by rapidly incorporating new ethics and business values courses into their curricula and have struggled to address these “hot issues”. How do we develop a framework of concrete values that can help effectively guide business leaders to shape a better world? Here we turn to philosophy, the arts, religion, independent thinkers, and spiritual leaders for a discussion on their perspectives on human values and ethics for the business world.