On January 25, 2005, Laszlo Zsolnai and Knut J. Ims gave a joint lecture at the Norwegian School of Economic & Business Administration (NHH) in Bergen, Norway. They presented the main points of their book Business within Limits: Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics.
Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture for a symposium devoted to the normative aspects of stakeholder theory, organized by Yvon Pesqueux at the Conservatoire National des Arts and Métiers (C.N.A.M.), on November 26, 2004, in Paris. Other speakers were Pierre Kletz (I.A.E. Tours), Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Rosdilke’s University) and François Lepineux (INSEAD). Laszlo Zsolnai argued that nature, society and future generations should be included among the stakeholders of business. The extended stakeholder framework calls for a radical transformation of business into a sustainable, prosocial, and future-enhancing… Read More »Lecture at CNAM, Paris
Invited by the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Gent and the Flemish Business Ethics Network, Laszlo Zsolnai gave a public lecture on Buddhist economics on October 20, 2004, in Leuven, Belgium. The lecture was opened by Professor M. Vervenne, vice-rector of the Catholic University of Leuven. In his lecture, Laszlo Zsolnai argued that the principles of Buddhist economics could be applied in any economic setting. As an alternative to mainstream Western economics, Buddhist economics is superbly rational, ethical,… Read More »Lecturing on Buddhist Economics in Leuven
The Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference Series was initiated by the Business Ethics Center in 2000. The first Transatlantic Summit was organized in Budapest in September 2000, while the second was held in September 2002 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The third one, entitled “Redefining Success in Business,” was held at ESADE Business School in Barcelona from October 1-3, 2004. Laszlo Zsolnai gave a presentation entitled “Succeeding Together: Business Performance in Multiple Value Perspective”. Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference in… Read More »Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference in Barcelona
Laszlo Zsolnai’s lecture on Responsible Business at S.J. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Bombay on January 22, 2021.
This animated video discusses the inherent value of business. Is business inherently bad or can it be ethically good?
This animated video discusses the future of business from an ethics point of view.
With leading besiness ethics experts Laszlo Zsolnai discusses why opportunistic use of ethics is counter-productive in business. He suggests that only genuine ethics works in business. Ethics is like love. Only those who love their partners in and for themselves will enjoy all the blessings of a loving relationship.
Laszlo Zsolnai, Visiting International Scholar in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, presents “Responsible Leadership and Reasonable Action” on April 23, 2013.
Laszlo Zsolnai ‘Frugality, Intrinsic Value of Nature, and Wellbeing-Oriented Businesses.’ The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 2021, vol. 7. The paper suggests three key ideas that are crucial to change the economic paradigm towards an economy oriented to the common good based on solidarity and fairness. These are frugality in consumption and production, acknowledging the intrinsic value of nature, and developing wellbeing oriented businesses. Frugality, Intrinsic Value of Nature, and Wellbeing-Oriented Businesses (English) Frugality, Intrinsic Value… Read More »Frugality, Intrinsic Value of Nature, and Wellbeing-Oriented Businesses