To celebrate the centennial of the College of Business and the 60th anniversary of the annual Honors Colloquium, the University of Rhode Island’s fall 2023 colloquium will examine how business activities affect stakeholders, including the natural environment; explore and prompt action to alter the ways we think about production, consumption and business success; and confront major problems in ways that benefit people, the planet, and the bottom line.

Join us most Tuesday evenings this fall for a frank dialog about the potential to use business thinking, while addressing its limitations, to help move the conversation forward and hopefully result in action.

Dynamic speakers have been recruited to talk about stakeholder capitalism and benefit corporations, while providing thought leadership on ways to motivate and enact systematic change. 

Coordinators: Doug Creed, Seray Ergene, and Christy Ashley 

Speakers

• Corporate Power, Business, and the Common Good? - Jerry Davis
  September 19, 2023 View On-Demand
• Community Economies: Organizing for the Common Good - Mahlia Safri
  September 26, 2023
• Panel: The Good Life: Making the switch to purpose driven work - Rachel Calomeni and Richard Vevers
  October 3, 2023
• Panel: Tackling Gender Inequality - Hilina D. Ajakaiye and Lauren Gray
  October 17, 2023
• Tackling Climate Change — Life Below Water - Wallace J Nichols
  October 24, 2023
• The Turn to Community: Rethinking Business for the Common Good - Ana Maria Peredo
  October 31, 2023
• “Sustainable” Business: Is it Possible? - Amy Hall
  November 14, 2023
• Black Ambition, Reduced Inequalities, and Economic Growth - Idrees "Lanre" Ajakaiye
  November 28, 2023
• Leading Business, Serving Society - Andy Hoffman
  December 5, 2023