College Faculty Panel on Morality, Psychology and Business

This is the fourth in an annual college-wide discussion of the leading policy issues of our time.

The conventional view of business as being narrowly economic and divorced from morality and psychology is increasingly challenged. Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that the “Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits” no longer holds full sway. That morality and psychology play a central role in individual decisions, and are thus of relevance to businesses selling to and employing these individuals, is now being established through systematic research. But how precisely do morality and psychology impinge on individual decisions? What do they mean exactly for business conduct and the pursuit of profit? And what role might public policy play in steering these complex interactions in the direction of the social good? A panel of faculty from across the SC Johnson College of Business will address a range of questions on Morality, Psychology and Business.

Featured speakers: 
Robert Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Andrew Karolyi, dean and Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Laura Niemi, assistant professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Kate Walsh MPS ’90, dean and E.M. Statler Professor, School of Hotel Administration

Please join us Friday, April 23, 2021
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Zoom Meeting

https://cornell.zoom.us/j/96182798474?pwd=NkhvTXRGd0xBNHphbkQxVlFJd0xxUT09

Meeting ID: 961 8279 8474

Passcode: 710897