Plenary 5: Where Will They Lead? / Can CSR be taught? The case of China and the role of business schools

Where Will They Lead? by Judith F. Samuelson

Where will the next generation of managers lead? Will they be equipped to link business strategy to issues that matter to the global public? For a decade, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program has been working with business schools around the globe to help discussion of business-societal challenges migrate from the ethics classroom to the core curriculum. This session will develop the lessons learned from ten years of networking faculty and creating dialogue across business and academia--about the best approaches to creating leaders for a sustainable tomorrow.

Can CSR be taught? The case of China and the role of business schools by Prof. Henri-Claude de Bettignies

If CSR is fashionable, it generates also much skepticism and not only in the West. In China, where CSR is, for obvious reasons, actively promoted - in particular by the government (to develop the “harmonious society”) – can CSR be taught? If so, how and what could be the role of business schools?