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Balaton Blocked Seminar

    An innovative CEMS Block Seminar entitled “The Future International Manager” was conducted by the Business Ethics Center from August 31-September 6, 2008, in Balatonszemes at Lake Balaton in Hungary. The seminar presented a fresh look at the desired professional profile of future international managers in different aspects of business. It also provided the students with a new vision of the roles and duties of management in the context of globalization. Laszlo Zsolnai, from the Business… Read More »Balaton Blocked Seminar

    Copenhagen Blocked Seminar

      A CEMS Block Seminar in business ethics focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility was held from August 18-23, 2008, at Copenhagen Business School.  The host was Steen Vallentin (Copenhagen Business School). Faculty included Aloy Soppe and  Nel Hofstra (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) and Laszlo Zsolnai from the Business Ethics Center. Laszlo Zsolnai lectured on the Costs and Benefits of Socially Responsible Business.

      Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life

        Bouckaert, Luk, Opdebeeck, Hendrik & Zsolnai, Laszlo (Eds.): Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life . Peter Lang Publishing, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. (This book may be available at Amazon)   The book examines frugality as an ideal and an ‘art de vivre’ which implies a low level of material consumption and a simple lifestyle, to open the mind for spiritual goods as inner freedom, social… Read More »Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life

        Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality

          Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality. Garant, Antwerpen-Apeldoom, 2008. (This book may be available at European SPES Forum) Values, purposes and functions of European and Asian businesses is a topic of vital importance today. The book contains selected papers of the “Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business, Ethics & Spirituality” annual conference of the European SPES Forum held in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. Scholars and practitioners from England, Norway, Sweden, and Hungary as well as… Read More »Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality

          “Responsible Business” Blocked Seminar in Bergen

            From August 25-31, 2007, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) conducted the CEMS Block Seminar in business ethics in Bergenben. The title of the seminar was “Responsible Business.” Knut J. Ims (NHH) served as course director. Faculty included Ove D. Jakobsen (Bodø Graduate School of Business), Eleanor O’Higgins (University College Dublin), Lars Jacob Thynes Pedersen (NHH), Kristina Rolin (Helsinki School of Economics), Antonio Tencati (Bocconi University Milan),  and Zsolt Boda and Laszlo Zsolnai from the Business Ethics Center. Zsolt Boda’s topic was  “Global Responsibility of Multinationals,” while Laszlo Zsolnai lectured… Read More »“Responsible Business” Blocked Seminar in Bergen

            Spirituality as a Public Good

              Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (Eds.): Spirituality as a Public Good. Garant, Antwerpen-Apeldoom, 2007. (This book may be available at European SPES Forum) The ongoing process of globalisation, deconstructing our familiar social identities and institutional settings, makes it necessary to find new and deeper sources of self-orientation and moral imagination. Formal rational ethics does not suffice. Ethics needs spirituality as a driver to find its inner purpose and meaning. Selected papers from the foundational meeting… Read More »Spirituality as a Public Good

              Business Ethics Blocked Seminar in Milan

                A CEMS Blocked Seminar, entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: New Perspectives on Business Management,” was held from September 5-10, 2005, at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Faculty included Knut J. Ims (Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration, Bergen), Eleanor O’Higgins (University College Dublin), Antonio Tencati (Bocconi University Milan), Steen Vallentin (Copenhagen Business School) and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest). Zsolnai presented the video “The Paradox of Business Ethics,” produced by the Business Ethics Center, and lectured on ethical business models in which managers consider… Read More »Business Ethics Blocked Seminar in Milan

                Business Ethics Blocked Seminar in Helsinki

                  From August 29-September 2, 2005, the Business Ethics Blocked Seminar of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) was held at the Helsinki School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland.  Faculty included Laszlo Zsolnai (chairman of the CEMS Business Ethics Interfaculty Group), Aloy Soppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Tomasz Dolegowski (Warsaw School of Economics), Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila and Kristina Rolin (Helsinki School of Economics) and Sirpa Juutinen (PricewaterhouseCoopers). Zsolnai lectured on “The Moral Economic Man” and “The Cost and Benefit of Socially Responsible Business.”

                  “Ecological and Human Values in Business” Blocked Seminar

                    Laszlo Zsolnai was Director of the “Ecological and Human Values in Business” CEMS Blocked Seminar from August 29 – September 4, 2004, in Monoszlo, near Lake Balaton, Hungary.  Faculty included Knut J. Ims (Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration, Bergen), Ove Jakobsen (Bodø University), Nel Hofstra and  Aloy Soppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and Laszlo Zsolnai and Zsolt Boda  (Corvinus University of Budapest). The seminar explored the ecological and human values perspective for transforming business… Read More »“Ecological and Human Values in Business” Blocked Seminar

                    Globalization and the Community

                      Laszlo Zsolnai, Zsolt Boda, Tomasz Dolegowski, Knut Ims, Joseph Lozano, Eleanor O’Higgins, & Antonio Tencati ‘Globalization and the Community.’ European Business Forum, 2004, pp. 23-24 Members of the Business Ethics Group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) explore alternative strategies for companies engaged in globalization. They argue that if business follows the unhindered, ‘market fundamentalist’ type of globalisation then it could lose its legitimacy. It is better for globalised business to enter into an open… Read More »Globalization and the Community