Keynote Presentation: Value Creation and Trade: A Stakeholder Approach

R Edward Freeman, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Director, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

A chance to update yourself on thinking on stakeholder management, the model behind many corporate social responsibility programmes. Ed Freeman is an international authority on stakeholding and an award-winning teacher. His books include The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (Oxford 1997), Business Ethics: The State of the Art (New York: Oxford 1991), Corporate Strategy and the Search for Ethics (Prentice Hall 1988)

Workshop: Business Calling: Stories for Leaders
Leigh Hafrey, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Ethics
Sloan School of Business, MIT

A seasoned teacher of senior executives for many years, Leigh Hafrey offers a chance to experience for yourself how leaders can develop their own philosophy and explore values with others through the deceptively simple method of moderated discussion of stories in text and film. (Limited numbers.)

Towards Responsible Profit: A New Market Model
Geoff Roberts, Director, Eco-Partners Limited

The Social and Ethical Alchemy: An Integrative Approach to Social and Ethical Accountability
Simone de Colle, Manager, Business Ethics & Integrity
KPMG Sustainability Advisory Services, London

How can companies gain a strategic edge from ‘responsible profit’ as opposed to mere ‘financial profit’? Geoff Roberts warns of the risks of being left behind and proposes a new model to guide management thinking. Simone de Colle explains how internal business ethics programmes and externally focused social reporting can be leveraged to build internal trust and external credibility.

What makes thinking and dialogue really effective at work? Three experts present research, models and guidance to help you and your team move beyond mere thinking skills.
 

Idealism in the Face of Tragic Realities
Jonathan Gosling, Professor and Director
Strategic Leaders Unit, Lancaster University Management School

Bringing Virtue to Light: Socratic Midwifery as a Metaphor for Managing Careers
Kevin Morrell, Loughborough University Business School

From Socrates to Shakespeare and beyond, classic thinkers offer insights to help managers rethink the meaning of work, address mid-career concerns and help those at any stage to think more deeply about what career success really means

A Better Way to Manage offers a unique one-stop exposure to what philosophy can offer today’s manager. However, many other sessions will enrich the thinking of thoughtful managers.  See the selection and full programme details.

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