YEAR-END REPORT
As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best and worst in human behavior, it has also brought out the best and worst in business behavior. This virtual series offered learnings from the ethical successes and failures of business during the pandemic to guide the future promise and purpose of business. Expert commentary from business, medicine, academia, and civil society across the nation, explored ethical challenges that faced and continue to face business. Three topics were covered in this discussion series. First, Ed Freeman and Alison Taylor spoke on the topic of Profit or price-gouging? To what extent is the cost of doing business externalized onto stakeholders. Second, Dean MayKao Hang shared her understanding of the tensions healthcare businesses face while simultaneously advancing profitability and increasing access to care. Finally, Joanne Ciulla and Doug Lepisto shared their views on how businesses should attract and retain workers after the Great Resignation and distinguish essential from non-essential work in an intersected global economy. Profit, public policy & people: What have we learned about business & ethics from the pandemic?
Virtual sessions were recorded and
Joanne Ciulla, Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers Business School
Ed Freeman, University of Virgina Darden School of Business Elis & Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society
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