Re-visioning Business Schools for the 21st Century
Inaugural lecture by Adjunct Professor Dr Freeman
Copenhagen Business School has appointed Dr Freeman Adjunct Professor. Dr Freeman will be associated with the Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility, anchored at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management.
Programme
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15:00-15:15 |
Welcome by Finn Junge-Jensen, CBS President and Jens Aaris Thisted, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, CBS |
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15:15-16:00 |
Inaugural lecture “Re-visioning Business Schools for the 21st Century” By Adjunct Professor Dr Freeman |
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16:00-17:30 |
The Department of Intercultural Communication and Management hosts a reception in honour of Dr Freeman’s appointment at the balcony outside the lecture hall. |
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R. Edward Freeman is the Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and the co-director of Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics. He is Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and has a courtesy appointment as Professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies. Dr Freeman is one of the world’s leading authorities in business ethics with an impressive publication record, and he has received numerous awards both for his research and his teaching. His seminal work on stakeholder theory has set the agenda for how scholars and practitioners think about business, challenging our understanding of the corporation, its strategies and its social roles and responsibilities. |