The BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership"Two Stories About Capitalism:
The Moral Psychology of Economic Life and Strife"
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
The Robert H. Smith School of Business, College Park, MD
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Our featured speaker, psychologist Jonathan Haidt, will explore the moral psychology of business ethics and how companies can structure and run themselves in ways that will be resistant to ethical failures.
Dr. Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the NYU-Stern School of Business. His research focuses on morality – its emotional foundations, cultural variations, and developmental course – which has resulted in his work in the field of positive psychology.
FEATURED SPEAKER
Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
NYU-Stern School of Business
Dr. Haidt’s three TED talks have been viewed more than 3 million times. He was named a “top-100 global thinker” of 2012 by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the 65 “World Thinkers of 2013″ by Prospect. He is the author of more than 90 academic articles and two books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and the New York Times bestseller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.
Other distinguished guests include:
Alex J. Triantis, dean, the Robert H. Smith School of Business
Daniel Waetjen, group president, BB&T
Please join us for this complimentary evening event, open to Smith students, faculty, staff and administrators, as well as the University of Maryland and business communities. Seating is limited, so to R.S.V.P., please click here.
To find out more about the speaker and the event, click here. For questions, please contact Dr. Kathryn Bartol at clic@rhsmith.umd.edu
