Can For-Profit Corporations be Good Citizens?
Posted by on September 12, 2011
THE PENN PROGRAM ON DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP, & CONSTITUTIONALISM PRESENTS:
corporations & citizenship
In his first annual message to Congress in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed: “Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions.” In the aftermath of Enron, the BP oil spill and revelations about the role of Wall Street in the recent financial collapse, what steps can be taken to ensure that for-profit business corporations act in harmony with democratic ideals? How can we best ensure that successful corporations are also good citizens? What are the roles and responsibilities of multinational corporations who often operate on a global scale? These are some of the questions we explore in the DCC program for 2011-2012.
September 15, 2011
6:00 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.
Opening Event
CAN FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS BE GOOD CITIZENS?
Fedele Bauccio, CEO, Bon Appétit
Gordon Bajnai, Former Prime Minister of Hungary, Former CEO of Wallis, Plc.
John Abele, Director Emeritus, Boston Scientific
William Cobb, CEO, J.M. Smith
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER / Kirby Auditorium / 525 Arch St.
Reception to follow
Workshop Series
4:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. / Stiteler Hall, Silverstein Forum / 208 S. 37th St.
October 27
HISTORY OF THE CORPORATION
Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
November 10
THE CORPORATION AS PERSON
Philip Pettit, Princeton University
December 8
Corporations & Children
Joel Bakan, University of British Columbia
January 19
Roundtable on For-Profit Education
Jonathan Harber, CEO, SchoolNet Inc.
Deborah Quazzo, Co-Founder, NeXtAdvisors, LLC
Peter Smith, Senior VP, Kaplan Higher Education
February 16
THE CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT & CITIZENSHIP
Cynthia Estlund, New York University
March 29
ETHNO-BEING: ON THE AFFECTIVE ECONOMY OF BELONGING
Jean & John Comaroff, University of Chicago
April 19
CORPORATIONS IN EAST ASIA
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University
May 4
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CORPORATIONS & CITIZENSHIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
3440 Market St., Suite 300, Room 312
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215
[email protected]
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