Announcing our 2021 Ideas Worth Teaching Award Winners
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Over the past three decades at Babson College, Hoopes has taught a course on the history of capitalism. But, about seven or eight years ago, seeing an opportunity to enrich his syllabus, he made a significant shift and changed the course to The History and Ethics of Capitalism.
Wharton professor Kevin Werbach was announced as one of eight recipients of the Ideas Worth Teaching Award by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.
Award recognizes educators using business to make the world a more inclusive place.
Professors Lindsay (Kawennenhá:wi) Brant and Kate Rowbotham have been recognized by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program’s Ideas Worth Teaching Awards.
The Aspen Institute aims to honor professors teaching students “new ideas about the role of business in creating a sustainable, inclusive society.” This year’s crop of winners included two classes centered on diversity and inclusion and two focused on sustainable finance, as well as others focusing on navigating ethical minefields like big data and even capitalism itself.
These awards recognize extraordinary educators who bridge the power of business to the greatest societal challenges of the day—from climate change to racial injustice to democratic erosion. These courses offer a powerful antidote to pessimism.
Associate Professor Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee developed one of eight courses in the world honored for innovation by the internationally renowned Aspen Institute.
An ILR School course designed by Assistant Professor Courtney McCluney was named today as an Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching Award winner.
The Aspen Institute’s latest Ideas Worth Teaching awards named eight “especially bold” courses that pushed the “boundaries of what was previously thought possible,” the institute’s Jaime Bettcher told DealBook. These professors are “leveraging the moment” to chart a new path, she said, by integrating environmental, social and governance issues into more traditional B-school fare.
The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to portend a re-appraisal of the value of work. More than a year later, have these changes contributed to lasting transformations in thinking from boardrooms to business schools?
In June, Exxon Mobil lost a vote on board appointees to an upstart hedge fund, Engine No. 1, who had charged the energy giant with making too little progress on climate change mitigation. Could this be a model for progress on a defining challenge of the 21st century?
With 2020—a year punctuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic turmoil and an epidemic of racial injustice—receding into the past, what progress is being made to build back better?
What makes for a decent job in the 21st century? Do the further disruptions unleashed by the pandemic mean that the future of work is no longer what it once was?
We spoke with Professor Kaplan about her course, and what else may be in store for Amazon in a year where the company will see a major leadership change at the top.
In many countries, March 2021 will mark the one-year anniversary of public health declarations of the threat of COVID-19. For many businesses, March 2021 also marks the one-year anniversary of working in unprecedented ways—from working entirely remotely, to steering teams through historic social upheaval. What lessons does this experience hold for business leadership in the future?
Andrew Hoffman… says graduate business education has a strong focus on the core skills and the tools of management. But B-schools aren’t teaching enough about what to do with those tools — particularly in a quickly shifting cultural and political landscape where problems go unanswered and grow beyond government’s ability to respond.
For many educators, responding to the arrival of COVID-19 last year meant shifting to entirely online instruction with little notice, often a staggering endeavor. Yet Johannes Kepler University Linz’s Elke Schüßler and University of Innsbruck’s Leonhard Dobusch went a step further.
On Dec. 7, five teams of graduate students from the University of Michigan showcased their project findings at Demo Day for the +Impact Studio’s innovative BA 670 course, whose semester theme was “Building Back Better in the Wake of COVID-19.”
Publishing in 2021, Becoming a Critical Thinker is a brand new textbook from OUP that focuses on developing essential critical skills in all undergraduate degree subjects.
Numbers have featured heavily in the headlines of 2020, most of them disquieting in nature: the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths, or the number of new jobless claims in economies buffeted by the virus. But how can they properly account for the human toll of these headlines?
In a year of so many crises, one bright spot has been business taking a bolder stance on climate policy—as Business Roundtable did with its endorsement of carbon taxes.
Petriglieri talks with Cindy Moehring about the relationship between leadership and ethics along with his thoughts on where the field of business ethics should be heading in the future.
“Resource decisions always entail value choices (what we believe is worth investing in); resources shape power dynamics and structure our society, for better or for worse; and innovation and prosperity depend on an economy rooted in reciprocity”
Among this year’s winners, two professors from GBSN member schools, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Gianpiero Petriglieri, were honored for their visionary teaching.
This pandemic isn’t something that just ends. We need to wrestle with the nature of the journey in order to prepare ourselves for the path to a way out.
Wharton professor Witold Henisz won the Aspen Institute’s 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award for his course on corporate diplomacy.
Four scholars who teach an AUT Business School course have been acknowledged for their focus on ethical business practices, global sustainability and the integration of indigenous wisdom into the realm of business.
Prof. Elke Schüßler, head of the Institute of Organization Science, believes the award confirms educational excellence at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and its Business School.
Professor Siddhartha Saxena of Ahmedabad University has been honoured with the prestigious 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute, Washington, DC., USA
A carbon tax is the favorite policy of many people concerned about climate change.
Ideas Worth Teaching is an initiative developed by the Business & Society Program within the Aspen Institute designed to draw attention to important new ideas about the role of business in creating a sustainable, inclusive society. Through a weekly e-digest and an annual awards program for visionary teaching within the business school, the initiative provides tools, resources and inspiration for faculty preparing the next generation of business leaders.