THE ASPEN INSTITUTE'S Business & Society Program has bestowed its 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Awards on nine courses and the business faculty who teach them. The awards recognize “faculty who are redefining business education—providing learning experiences that equip managers of tomorrow with the context, skills and decision-making capabilities needed to lead in an increasingly complex business environment—and world,” according to the organization.
“2020 has underscored the need for fresh thinking on issues at the intersection of business and society,” says Business & Society Advisor Claire Preisser, and that type of thinking is reflected in both the form and content of the winning entries. For instance, a course on organizing in times of crisis is team-taught by instructors from several universities across multiple nations. A course on ethics and sustainability draws on the perspective and framework of indigenous peoples and sparks debates about centuries-old racial injustices embedded in modern social and economic systems.
The nine winners are:
+Impact Studio: Translating Research into Practice
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Corporate Diplomacy: Aligning Stakeholder Analytics & Strategy
Witold Henisz
The Wharton School
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma, Peter McGhee, Amber Nicholson, Peter Skilling
The AUT Business School
The Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand
Ethics: Value-Based Leadership for Cosmopolitans
Gianpiero Petriglieri
INSEAD
Fontainebleu, France
Future of Work
Siddhartha Saxena
The Amrut Mody School of Management
Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India
Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of Covid19
Leonhard Dobusch
Faculty of Business and Management
The University of Innsbruck in Austria
Elke Schüßler
JKU Business School
Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria
Resource Allocation in Organizations
Elizabeth Castillo
College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
Arizona State University in Tempe
Seminar in Business & Society
Oscar Jerome Stewart
Lam Family College of Business
San Francisco State University in California
The 360º Corporation
Sarah Kaplan
The Rotman School of Management
The University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada