The Mysterious Relationship of Technology and Ethics

Please join the OEC as we kick off the new year with our first guest speaker Ed Freeman.

This talk will try to understand how the processes for ethical decision making and technological development often move on different timescales.  This results in potential conflicts, bad conversations, and political chaos.  Frameworks from stakeholder theory and ethics will be examined to suggest several ways out of the quagmire.  Examples from businesses representing important technological change will be scrutinized.

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More about Ed Freeman

R. Edward Freeman is University Professor, Distinguished Chair in Business Administration Professor, Olsson Professor, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award-winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest books are R. Edward Freeman’s Selected Works on Stakeholder Theory and Ethics with Sergiy Dmytriyev(Springer Nature, 2023), Defeating Dengue with Andrew Sell (Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2024), Models of Leadership in Plato and Beyond with Dominic Scott (Oxford, 2021); Humanizing Business with Michel Dion and Sergiy Dmytriyev (Springer Nature, 2022); The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-offs, with Bidhan Parmar and Kirsten Martin (Columbia 2020); The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory with Jeffrey Harrison, Jay Barney and Robert Phillips (Cambridge 2019); and, Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility with Patricia Werhane and Sergiy Dmytriyev, (Cambridge, 2017),. He has received seven honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from: HEC Paris in France; Radboud University in the Netherlands; Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain; the Hanken School of Economics, and Tampere University in Finland; Sherbrooke University in Canada; and, Leuphana University in Germany, for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. In 2022 he received the University of Virginia’s most prestigious award, The Thomas Jefferson Award for Scholarship.  Freeman served as Co-Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Ethics, one of the leading journals in business ethics, from 2016-2020. He is a lifelong student of philosophy, martial arts and the blues. Freeman is a founding member of Red Goat Records (redgoatrecords.com) bringing the joy of original soul and rhythm and blues music into the 21st Century. He is the host of The Stakeholder Podcast, sponsored by Stakeholder Media, LLC.