Conferences
2023 Conferences
“Growing the Good in Business
for the Next 100 Years”
McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame
2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the business school at Notre Dame. As part of our centennial celebrations, we are hosting a conference titled “Growing the Good in Business for the Next 100 Years.” (“Grow the Good in Business” is the Mendoza College of Business’s motto.) The conference will explore the directions that business education within a Catholic institution of higher education should take over the century to come.
Schedule:
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:00 p.m. Opening Dinner (Invitation Only)
7:30 p.m. Opening Plenary Discussion: “Maintaining Spiritual Values in the Workplace”
Sandeep Mazumder, Baylor Hankamer School of Business
Room: McKenna 215/216
Friday, March 31, 2023
8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. Session 1: “Growing the Good in Finance”
Charlie Calomiris, Columbia Business School
Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Kristen Collett- Schmitt, University of Notre Dame
Room: McKenna 205/206/207
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. Session 2: “Growing the Good in Management”
Lloyd Sandelands, University of Michigan
Alejo Sison, Universidad de Navarra
Chair: Ann Tenbrunsel, University of Notre Dame
Room: McKenna 205/206/207
12:30 p.m. Lunch: “What Do Business Leaders Want from Business Education?”
Sanda Ojiambo, United Nations Global Compact
Introduction: Fr. Ollie Williams
Room: McKenna 215/216
1:30p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. Session 3: “Growing the Good in Technology.”
Jorge Mejia, Indiana University
Lauren Rhue, University of Maryland
Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Nick Berente, University of Notre Dame
Room: McKenna 205/206/207
3:30 p.m. Tour of campus and Mass (optional).
6:00 p.m. Closing Dinner (Invitation Only)
7:30 p.m. Closing Plenary Discussion: “Growing the Good in Business for the Next 100 Years”
Sally Blount, Northwestern University, Catholic Charities of Chicago
Room: McKenna 215/216
Saturday, April 1, 2023
8:00am Breakfast (On Your Own)
9:00am Session 4: “Growing the Good in Business Ethics and Society.”
Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame
Candace Vogler, University of Chicago
Chair: Fr. Ollie Williams, University of Notre Dame
Room: McKenna 205/206/207
10:30am Open Discussion: What Have We Learned
Discussion Leader: Andreas Widmer, CUA
11:30am Closing remarks: Dean Martijn Cremers, Notre Dame
11:45am Boxed Lunches
About the Speakers:
Nick Berente
Nick Berente studies how digital innovations like artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab. Professor Berente received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies. He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is associate editor for MIS Quarterly.
Sally Blount
Sally Blount has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago since 2020. With an operating budget of nearly $200 million, Charities is the largest private human services provider in the Chicago region. Each day, Charities’ 1250 full-time employees, along with hundreds of volunteers, serve thousands of people in need, without regard to their faith, gender, ethnicity, or race. At Charities, Blount, its Board of Directors, and senior leadership team are in the final year of a three-year capabilities-building and strategic planning process that is reimagining its governance, systems, and client impact. Already, during the first two years Charities has set two fundraising records — topping $35 million in private donations annually for the first time in its history. Blount also holds the Michael L. Nemmers Chair in Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she is a proud alumna, the former Dean (2010-2018) and an award-winning professor known for her course “Organizational Growth and Transformation.” She currently sits on the boards of Abbott Laboratories, the Joyce Foundation, and the Economic Club of Chicago. In her work, Blount leverages 14 years of experience as dean of two globally ranked business schools — Kellogg (2010-2018) and the Stern College of Business at New York University (2004-2010). Across all her roles, Blount is known as a transformational leader who works with a broad array of stakeholders to re-envision purpose, redesign systems, and increase performance -– whether it be around operational productivity, fundraising capacity, or global reputation. As a dean, she is proud to have led two capital campaign teams that together raised more than $550 million and that envisioned, funded, and completed two significant building projects, one in the heart of New York City and one on the shores of Lake Michigan. Blount holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Northwestern University and a B.S.E. from Princeton University. Her first job after college was with the Boston Consulting Group. After completing her PhD at Kellogg, she launched her faculty career at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago (1992-2001), before joining the NYU faculty in 2001, where she served until returning to Kellogg in 2010.
Charles Calomiris
Professor Charles W. Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions in the Finance Department at Columbia Business School, and a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is currently on leave and serving as Director of the Center for Politics, Economics and History at the newly forming University of Austin. He recently served as Chief Economist and Senior Deputy Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Professor Calomiris is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and the Shadow Open Market Committee, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directed the Initiative on Regulation and the Rule of Law for many years. He was a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, and has been a visiting scholar or consultant to many central banks and regulatory agencies. Professor Calomiris received a BA in economics from Yale and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. His recent writings include studies using textual analysis to measure the consequences of risk for international equity markets, foreign exchange markets, regulatory costs, and monetary policy actions, studies of the consequences for investment and growth of capital inflows into emerging economies, and studies of the origins of banking crises and the role of government policies in magnifying or mitigating systemic risk, including his recent books, Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (with Stephen Haber), Princeton, 2014, and Reforming Financial Regulation After Dodd-Frank, Manhattan Institute, 2017, and two edited volumes, Rules for the Lender of Last Resort, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2016, and Assessing Banking Regulation During the Obama Era, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018. He currently is working on a book entitled Useless History and the Future of Banking.
Kristen Collett Schmitt
Kristen Collett-Schmitt teaches economics in the undergraduate studies, Executive Master of Nonprofit Administration (EMNA), Master of Nonprofit Administration (MNA), Master of Science in Management (MSM) and MBA programs in the Mendoza College of Business. Her current research focuses on education and literacy, encouraging students to develop an interest for economics through the use of real-world applications, and inclusive pedagogy. Professor Collett-Schmitt’s honors and distinctions include the Department of Finance James Dincolo Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award (2016), the Joe and Gina Prochaska Family Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award (2015), the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2014), the EMNA Program Outstanding Professor Award (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022), the MNA Program Outstanding Professor Award (2021), the Leo Burke Outstanding Professor Award for the Chicago EMBA Program (2021), and the 2022 Provost’s Award for Academic Support of Student-Athletes. In 2017, she was named to Michiana’s Class of Forty under 40 and a Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professor by Poets & Quants. Both inside and outside of the classroom, Kristen Collett-Schmitt is passionate about inclusion and equity. In 2022, she spearheaded the inaugural DE&I Grow the Good in Business Case Competition and piloted a professional development program that addresses the inequitable promotion of women to management positions. Professor Collett-Schmitt helped establish the Notre Dame Chapter for MoneyThink, a student organization that seeks to promote financial literacy by placing college mentors in South Bend high schools to teach personal finance lessons, and is devoted to providing necessities for hospitalized premature infants through her family’s non-profit organization, “Wishes for Preemies.” In 2022, Professor Collett-Schmitt was appointed as the Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion in the Mendoza College of Business. Previously, she served as the Associate Dean for Specialized Master’s Programs and oversaw accreditation for the College as Director of Special Projects.
Mary Hirschfeld
Mary Hirschfeld has Ph.Ds in Economics (Harvard 1989) and in Moral Theology (University of Notre Dame 2013). She works on the boundaries between theology and economics using an approach rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Her book, Aquinas and the Market (Harvard 2018) has one two major awards. In addition she has published on economic inequality, the technocratic paradigm, the financial crisis and the common good.
Sandeep Mazumder
Sandeep Mazumder was appointed as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business in 2021. He previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. Mazumder’s research and teaching interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, international monetary economics and time-series econometrics. He has focused much of his research on U.S. inflation dynamics and the Phillips Curve, and has published more than 30 articles in journals such as the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Journal of Macroeconomics, for which he serves as an associate editor. In 2022, Mazumder and co-author Dale K. Cline published the textbook Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics. He is a member of the American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association and International Atlantic Economic Association. He also teaches several courses, including Intermediate Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Monetary Theory and Policy and International Finance. Mazumder received his BA and MA in Economics from Cambridge University and his MA and PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Jorge Meija
Jorge Mejia is an Assistant Professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is interested in understanding the antecedents and impacts of social media through the analysis of large amounts of data. His current projects employ unstructured data from social media to predict business outcomes. He is also interested in predictors of success in early-stage tech entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Kelley, Dr. Mejia was a technology and management consultant, an industry analyst and an entrepreneur.
Lauren Rhue
Lauren Rhue, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Her research explores the ethical, economic, and social implications of technology. Recent projects have explored bias in emotion and beauty-related artificial intelligence as well as using machine learning techniques to increase equity without sacrificing business objectives. She has published research in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Social Networks as well as law review articles in American Law Review and Journal of Science and Technology Law. Her research has been presented at numerous international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), INFORMS, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), and Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR). Dr. Rhue received her doctorate in Information Systems from the New York University’s Stern School of Business and graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering.
Lloyd Sandelands
Professor Lloyd E. Sandelands joined the faculty of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the faculty of Psychology in the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, in 1989. Prior to that, he taught at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (1982-1989). Professor Sandelands received his AB in Psychology (1977) from Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior (1982) from Northwestern University. Professor Sandelands’ research focuses on the social and spiritual dimensions of life in organizations. Professor Sandelands teaches courses in social and organizational psychology and management to graduate and undergraduate students in Business Administration and Psychology.
Alejo José G. Sison
Alejo Jose G. Sison is Professor of Business Ethics at the School of Economics and Business of the University of Navarre. He was president of the European Business Ethics Network (2009-2012) and current president of the Society for Business Ethics. He investigates issues at the juncture of ethics, economics and politics from the perspective of the virtues and the common good.
Ann Tenbrunsel
Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.B.A. Northwestern University; B.S.I.O.E. University of Michigan) is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics in the College of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision making, examining why employees, leaders and students behave unethically, despite their best intentions to behave to the contrary. Ann is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books on this topic—including Blind Spots, Behavioral Ethics: Shaping an Emerging Field , Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics—and many research articles and chapters. Her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC and National Public Radio, and adaptations, excerptions and references to her work have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, US News and World Report, AP, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, and in blogs for Psychology Today and Freakonomics. Ann has presented to and consulted with a variety of companies and institutions including Ernst & Young, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The United Nations, Wells Fargo, Weber Shandwick, The Walsh Group, Prudential, The National Association of Broadcasters, Bayer, Deloitte and PG&E. Ann teaches at the executive, MBA, and undergraduate levels. Prior to entering academics, Ann worked as an engineer for S.C. Johnson & Son and as a sales and marketing consultant for ZS Associates.
Candace Vogler
Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life,” a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill’s Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particularly the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant’s ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism.
Tim Weninger
Tim Weninger is the Freimann Collegiate Associate Professor of Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is also affiliated with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, the Pulte Institute for Global Development, and the Technology Ethics Center. Professor Weninger’s research is in machine learning, network science and social media. He is interested in uncovering how humans consume and curate information. This work is funded through separate grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, DARPA, USAID, the Templeton Foundation via the University of Chicago, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Andreas Widmer
Andreas E. Widmer is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and the director of the Art & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business. Previously he co-founded The SEVEN Fund, a philanthropic organization promoting enterprise solutions to poverty. Widmer is a seasoned business executive with experience in high-tech, international business strategy, consulting and economic development. He served as CEO of the business strategy firm OTF Group (formerly part of the Monitor Group) and helped lead web content management pioneer Eprise Corporation, speech recognition pioneer Dragon Systems, and internet pioneer FTP Software. He has worked extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, has brought more than 100 leading-edge technology products to market, and was an executive in residence at Highland Capital Partners. Andreas is the author of The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship: Creating Enduring Value, an insightful, practical guide to how businesses can and should be run to be both virtuous and profitable.
Fr. Oliver Williams, C.S.C.
Fr. Oliver Williams, C.S.C. specializes in the areas of business ethics, corporate governance, and Catholic social teaching. Williams is the editor or author of 22 books as well as numerous articles on business ethics in journals. He is the Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. A former Naval Officer, Williams earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Notre Dame. He is a Catholic priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross. He served as Associate Provost of the University of Notre Dame from 1987-94 and is a past chair of the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management. He was elected as a Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 2014. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the five-person Board of Directors at the United Nations Global Compact Foundation. The United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative with over15,000 businesses around the world as members. In 2019 he was presented with the SUMNER MARCUS Award from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management “in recognition and appreciation for your outstanding contribution of service and scholarship to the field.”