Centennial Speaker Series: R. Edward Freeman on The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs
2020-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Join us for a lunchtime webinar program with author R. Edward Freeman on his latest book, The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs.
The idea that businesses are only concerned with their bottom line no longer holds true in the 21st century, especially when companies around the world are giving up traditional distinctions in order to succeed. Yet, our expectations for businesses remain under the sway of an outdated worldview that emphasizes profits for shareholders above all else.
The Power of And offers a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that unites today’s most influential ideas and companies. In the book, R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar detail an emerging business model built on five key concepts: prioritizing purpose as well as profits; creating value for stakeholders as well as shareholders; seeing business as embedded in society as well as markets; recognizing people’s full humanity as well as their economic interests; and integrating business and ethics into a more holistic model. Drawing on examples across companies, industries, and countries, they show that these values support persevering in hard times and prospering over the long term. Real-world success stories disprove the conventional wisdom that there are unavoidable trade-offs between acting ethically and succeeding financially. The Power of And presents a conceptual revolution about what it means for a business to be responsible, providing a new story for us to tell in order to help all kinds of companies thrive.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
12:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: David Cowen, president/CEO of the Museum of American Finance
12:08 p.m.: Discussion: Ed Freeman
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speaker
Freeman is the University Professor and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is the author of the widely influential book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (2010, originally published in 1984), and has worked with executives and companies around the world.
This event is co-sponsored with the Museum of American Finance and CFA Society New York.

Centennial Speaker Series: Joel Greenblatt on Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
2020-09-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn’t take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to the forefront of problems we desperately need to solve. But now that the opportunity is here, what should we do? How can we create more equality, opportunity, and growth for everyone? Not someday, but what can the government and the private sector do right now to disrupt a status quo that almost everyone wants to change?
In Common Sense, New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt offers an investor’s perspective on building an economy that truly works for everyone. With dry wit and engaging storytelling, he makes a lively and provocative case for disruptive new approaches―some drawn from personal experience, some from the outside looking in.
Agenda
12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
12:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: David Cowen, president/CEO of the Museum of American Finance
12:08 p.m.: Discussion: Joel Greenblatt
12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A
1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen
About the Speaker
Joel Greenblatt serves as Managing Principal and Co‐Chief Investment Officer of Gotham Asset Management, the successor to Gotham Capital, an investment firm he founded in 1985. Since 1996, he has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches a course titled Value and Special Situation Investing. Greenblatt is a director of Pzena Investment Management Inc., a global investment management firm. He formerly served on the investment boards of the University of Pennsylvania and the UJA-Federation of New York. Greenblatt is the author of You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Simon & Schuster, 1997), The Little Book That Beats the Market (Wiley, 2005), The Little Book That Still Beats the Market (Wiley, 2010), The Big Secret for the Small Investor (Random House, 2011), and Common Sense (Columbia University Press, 2020). He is the former chairman of the board (1994‐1995) of Alliant Techsystems, an NYSE‐listed aerospace and defense contractor. He holds a bachelor’s degree (1979), summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. (1980) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
This event is co-sponsored with the Museum of American Finance and CFA Society New York.
