Events
Events:
Susilo Institute Webinars:
Patagonia’s Philosophy – An Inside Look
Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 4:00pm -5:00pm EST
Insights@Questrom Webinar- Free Virtual Event
Guest Speaker:
Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy, Patagonia
Co-hosts:
Nina Mazar, Professor Marketing, Thinkers50 Radar 2023
David Epstein, Executive Director, Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy, Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership Visiting Professor of the Practice, Information Systems
Past Events:
Is Creativity in Advertising Dead in the Age of AI?
Thursday, February 23, 2023 from 3:30pm -4:30pm EST
Insights@Questrom Webinar- Free Virtual Event
Guest Speakers:
Jeff Goodby, Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Kathy Kiely, President, The Ad Club
Dokyun Lee, Kelli Questrom Associate Professor in Management, Associate Professor, Information Systems.
David Epstein, Executive Director, Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy, Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership Visiting Professor of the Practice, Information Systems
Money: It’s Created. It’s Destroyed. But What Is It?
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 from 2pm -3pm EST
Insights@Questrom Webinar- Free Virtual Event
Speakers:
Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR’s Planet Money
Mark Williams, Lecturer, Finance, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Host:
David Epstein, Executive Director, Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy, Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership Visiting Professor of the Practice, Information Systems
Social Does Not Mean Soft! Measuring S in ESG
Thursday, November 17, 2022 from 2pm -3pm EST
Insights@Questrom Webinar- Virtual Event
EquityQuotient Founders Christina Van Houten and Perfecto Sanchez will answer tough questions like what is S? How do companies do S? Can you measure it in a meaningful way for investors?
This is a free webinar.
Watch the video:
2022 Partners in Business Ethics Symposium
October 10-12, 2022
Boston University Questrom School of Business
The Susilo Institute hosted the 2022 Partners in Business Ethics Symposium. The theme was TRUST.
Partners in Business Ethics brings together business school deans, thought leaders in business ethics, and corporate leaders, to foster dialogue and share a commitment to promoting integrity and ethical behavior. First held at Penn State in 2010, and building from a terrific symposium last year at BYU, this annual event promotes cooperation between academia and industry to ensure alignment between business education and the needs of today’s businesses.
Keynote speakers:
- Judy Samuelson, Executive Director of the Business and Society Program, Aspen Institute.
- David Bersoff, SVP & Head of Global Thought Leadership Research at Edelman Data & Intelligence, and John Gerzema, CEO of the Harris Poll.
- Eric Rosengren, Former President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Bill Irving, Chief Investment Officer at Fidelity Investments.
- Marshall Van Alstyne, Questrom Professor in Management & Professor, Information Systems at Boston University Questrom School of Business.
- Shalene Gupta, Thinkers 50, Writer & Journalist, thought leader on trust, and the co-author of “The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It.”
Susilo Institute Webinars:
Free Speech, Platforms & the Fake News Problem
Thursday, April 21, 2022, from 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Speaker: Marshall Van Alstyne, Questrom Chair Professor at Boston University, coauthor of the international bestseller Platform Revolution and one of the world’s experts on network business models.
In this exciting webinar, we will examine the key attributes of “fake news” and of current solutions, and present design tradeoffs for curbing fake news.
Nature Has No Borders
How Palestinian and Israeli Citizens Tackle the Environment
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, from 3:30pm – 4:30pm ET
Speaker: Dr. David Lehrer, Director of International Development at the Arava Institute and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Boston University, will present the applied environmental diplomacy approach of the Institute’s joint Palestinian and Israeli water, food security, renewable energy and public health initiatives.
This is a free hybrid event. In person at the Questrom School of Business, room 240, and online on zoom.
Marketing, Fraud, and Ethical Boundaries
Anthony Loveland reflects on fraud charges in telemedicine services.
March 2, 2022 2:00pm-3:00pm EST
Anthony Loveland had a successful career and a thriving business. Now he faces conviction for fraud. When does marketing cross an ethical line? When does it cross the legal line?
Mr. Loveland will be interviewed by:
Rachel Spooner, Associate Professor of the Practice in Business Law, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Moderator:
Dave Epstein, Executive Director, Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy, Visiting Professor of Practice, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Ethics and AI Startups
February 16, 2022 2:00pm -3:00pm EST
Should AI startups care about ethics? Startups and their investors are focused, capital efficient and driven to sell a product. AI is fraught with ethical questions. What responsibilities, then, do startups have when dealing with AI biases, black-box algorithms, or private data mined by AI? Would they, should they forgo potential profit?
Video coming soon!
Susilo director Dr. Nalin Kulatilaka, Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management, presented at the IPHACON 2021 virtual symposium at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research. He was part of an expert panel on “Untapped Solutions for India’s Tuberculosis Epidemic”, discussing the role of nutritional interventions and socially responsible businesses in India’s TB elimination efforts. The video of his presentation, entitled, “Recent trends in CSR and Responsible Investing” is posted below. Co-sponsors for the event included the Susilo Institute and the Boston Medical Center. (September, 2021)
Susilo co-director Nina Mazar joined the future of health conversation with IDEO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H exploring the role of business in building a healthier future (June, 2020).
Dean’s speaker series: Michael McCreless, Head of Investor Collaboration at the Impact Management Project, shared his insights about sustainable and impact investing in his talk entitled “Investing our Values, Changing the World, or Both?” The talk was moderated by Susilo co-director Nalin Kulatilaka (Feb, 2020).
In collaboration with The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Boston University, we organized a conference on “Reshaping the World 2020: Financial Inclusion & Social Impact Conference” (Feb, 2020).