László Zsolnai

Yvon Chouinard, a Buddhist entrepreneur and founder of Patagonia, an American retailer of outdoor clothing company, made an extraordinary proclamation. He said that “Earth is now our only shareholder”. This statement has wide-ranging implications not just for his company but also for business in general. Shareholders are those entities the benefit of whom a capitalist firm should be managed for and whom the company management is responsible to. If a company considers the Earth as… Read More »Earth is our only shareholder

As part of The Economy of Francesco program the Business Ethics Center organized a workshop entitled “New Business Models for Human Flourishing & Ecological Regeneration” on September 23, 2022 in Assisi, Italy. Contributing faculty of the workshop included Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest & Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford), András Ócsai (Corvinus University of Budapest), Antonio Tencati (University of Brescia & Bocconi University Milan), and Jozsef Veress (Corvinus University of Budapest). The workshop presented… Read More »New Business Models for Human Flourishing & Ecological Regeneration

The forthcoming book “Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management” edited by Sanjoy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management, Shillong) and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest) was presented at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. The main argument of the book is that rationality and spirituality are not necessarily antagonistics in business and economics. Business actors can rationally pursue objectives based on spiritual values and priorities. Zsolnai & Ócsai CIAS lecture 2022