The “Business, Faith and the Common Good” speaker series aims to bring to Creighton high caliber thinkers who have written on topics related to business, faith, and the common good. They include thinkers coming from philosophy, theology, management, marketing, and other various fields of thought.

We are excited about the 2017 Speakers for our  Business, Faith, and the Common Good Speakers Series:

 September 21st  Gregory Beabout (St. Louis U.)   “Is Pope Francis Critical of Capitalism?” Lunch talk at Harper Center 3028 11am-12noon(co-sponsored by Creighton’s Institute for Economic Inquiry)

Gregory Beabout is professor of philosophy, and author of over 40 articles and reviews and books including The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward;  Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair; Beyond Self Interest: A Personalist Approach to Human Action; and editor of A Celebration of the Thought of Pope John Paul II: On the Occasion of the Papal Visit to St. Louis and A Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management.

 September 27th David Ozar (Loyola, Chicago)    “The Common Good: Insights from Aristotle and John Stuart Mill” 6pm, Harper Center Harper Ballroom A

David Ozar was Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and from 1993 to 2006 was Director of Loyola’s Center for Ethics.  He has taught and done extensive work in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and Aristotle’s virtue ethics.  He was the founder and first president of the Professional Ethics in Dentistry Network and has held offices in the Society for Health and Human Values, the American Philosophical Association, and other professional organizations. His publications are wide-ranging, including articles on whistleblowing in dentistry, whether or not corporations have moral rights, and what should be done with unused frozen embryos.

October 4th  Gene Veith (Patrick Henry College)                   ” “Vocation and Economics” 6pm Harper Center 3023

Dr. Gene Edward Veith was until recent retirement Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College.  Dr. Veith is the author of 20 books on topics involving Christianity and culture, classical education, literature, and the arts, and including books on Christian God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life and his 2016 book, Working for Our Neighbor: A Lutheran Primer on Vocation, Economics, and Ordinary Life .

 October 7th Michael Naughton (St. Thomas University)   (Symposium Keynote, Harper Center, 3pm)

Michael Naughton holds an endowed chair in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) as a full professor. He is the director of the Center for Catholic Studies, which is the oldest and largest Catholic Studies program in the world.  He is the author and editor of nine books and over 40 articles.  He is the keynote speaker at this year’s Business Faith and the Common Good Symposium.

 November 1st David Cloutier (Catholic U. of America)   “The Vice of Luxury” 6pm, Harper Center Ballroom A

David Cloutier teaches in the Theology department at Catholic University.  He has written Love, Reason, and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008), Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Faith (2014) and The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age (2015), in which he gives a historical account of the concept of luxury, shows why luxury is a problem, explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today, and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian moral convictions.

 November 7th Gene Laczniak (Marquette U.)  “The 2016 Jesuit Task Force Report on ‘Justice in the Global Economy’: Analysis, Implications and Actions for Jesuit Business Schools”  12:30, Harper Center 3027

 In 2012, Gene Laczniak received a lifetime achievement award from the American Marketing Association for his contributions to marketing ethics, corporate social responsibility and public policy scholarship.  Laczniak currently serves as President of the Macromarketing Society, and from 1998 to 2002, he was the Associate Vice-President/Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the Marquette.  Laczniak was a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing for 15 years and continues to serve on two academic journal review boards. He is co-author of five books on business ethics with his most recent being Ethics in Marketing: International Cases and Perspectives (Routledge, 2012).”  He has been a member of the board of directors of four non-profit organizations with 18 years of aggregate service. He has taught executive development classes in the U.S., Europe and Asia winning several teaching awards. Laczniak has published over 150 journal articles and papers.

The speaker series is made possible by  support from the Heider College of business at Creighton University, as well as donations from various individuals and businesses who are supporters of the Business, Faith and Common Good Institute.  If you wish to give a tax-deductible contribution, your donation can be given through the Creighton University Development Office.  Please contact Andy Gustafson for more details (andrewgustafson@creighton.edu)

                         

Andy and Celeste Gustafson