University of St. Thomas

Business Education at

Catholic Universities

Exploring the Role of Mission-Driven Business Schools

Conference Papers

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Introductory Questions on
Catholic Thought
and Business Education

• Terrence McGoldrick (University of San Diego), “Does Ex corde ecclesiaehave anything to say to Catholic business schools?”
       Respondent: Don Briel
• Timothy Mahoney (Providence College), "Can Catholic social thought speak to the secular concerns of business?: The role of natural law
       Respondent: Robert Kennedy
• Charles Clark (St. John’s University), “Is Catholic social thought compatible with contemporary economics and finance?” Powerpoint
       Respondent: Lee Tavis

Plenary Sessions

·        Business Education at Catholic Universities
Speaker: Fr. Robert Spitzer (President, Gonzaga University)
     Respondent: Don Briel (Director, Center for Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas) 

• The Challenge of Mission-Driven Business Education in China
  Speaker: Henri-Claude de Bettignies (Professor, CEIBS and Emeritus Professor, INSEAD) 
       Respondent: Georges Enderle (Professor of Business Ethics, University of
       Notre Dame)
  
  
• How Academic Leadership Shapes Catholic Business Education
  Speakers: Carolyn Woo (Dean of Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame) and Andre Delbecq (Former Dean of the College of Business, Santa Clara University)
         Respondent: Frank Lazarus (President, University of Dallas)
  
  
• Business Leaders on Catholic Business Education
  Speakers: Agnieszka Winkler (Board of Trustees, Santa Clara University) and Dick Green (Former President of Blistex)
         Respondent: Steve Porth (Associate Dean, St. Joseph's University)
  
  
• The Role of Catholic Soical thought in Business Education
  Speakers:  Robert Kennedy (Business and Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas) and Gerald Cavanagh S.J. (Business, University of Detroit Mercy
         Respondent: Gene Laczniak (Professor of Marketing,    Marquette University)
  
  
• Closing Comments
  Mike Naughton (University of St. Thomas) and Pat Murphy (University of Notre Dame)

Concurrent Sessions

Teaching Business Ethics at a Catholic University

• John Dienhart, Teaching Business Ethics in a Catholic Jesuit University
• Nicholas Santos, S.J. and Gene Laczniak, The Integrative Justice Model and its Relevance to Business Education at Catholic Business Schools 
         Respondent: Joan Van Hise
  

Theological Ideas for Business Education

• John Haughey, S.J., Ecology and Resurrection
•   Thomas O’Brien, Paradox or Poppycock: The Preferential Option for the Poor in a Modern Business Context
         Respondent: Jim Wishloff

Stewarding and Assessing the Mission of Catholic Business Schools

• Frank Lazarus, James Klassen and Brian Murray, A President’s Challenge:  Case Study on Stewarding the University’s Catholic Mission in the Business School
• Ken Goodpaster and Dean Maines, Catholic Social Thought as a Guide to Self-Assessment by Business Schools
         Respondent: Jan Hansen

Understanding the Meaning of Catholic Business Education

• Francis Hilton, S.J. and Peter Lorenzi, What Next? Faith, Reason and Catholic
  Business Education
• Thomas Bausch, A Vehicle of Evangelization: The Professional School of Business on a Catholic University Campus
• Victor Forlani, S.M. and Joseph Castellano, Business as a Calling: An MBA Elective Experience
         Respondent: Osvaldo Ferreiro Poch

Catholic Business Education in Asia and Latin America

• Thomas Hong-soon Han, Mission-Driven Business Education at Catholic Universities in Asia
• Anna Bajo and Jose Luis Fernandez,  Business Education at Catholic Universities:  The Spanish Case
         Respondent: Catherine Giunta

Teaching Marketing at a Catholic University

• Andrew Abela,  Teaching Marketing in a Catholic University: Examining the Tensions Between Christian Teaching and Promotion of Consumption
• Michael Stebbins and Peggy Sue Loroz, Mission-driven Marketing Education: Practical Approaches and Problems
         Respondent: John Little

Teaching Finance at a Catholic University

·        Quentin Dupont, S.J., The Catholic Mission in Finance Curricula: Towards Ethically-Grounded Finance

·        Adrian Cowan, Student Managed Portfolios in an Environment of Faith

Respondent: Helen Costigane, SHCJ

Entrepreneurship and Catholic Business Education

·        Linda Specht, The Economy of Communion Project as a Resource for Catholic Business Education

·      Christian Weber,  An “Entrepreneurial” Approach to Teaching Economic Development: Motivations and Methods

Respondent: Robert Gaffney

Teaching Economics at a Catholic University

·      Andrew Yuengert, Two Barriers to Moral Agency in Management Education

·      Dean Peterson and David Carrithers, Integrating a Social Justice Perspective in Economics Education: Creating a Distinctly Catholic Education (Five Page Summary)

                        Respondent: Charles Clark

Teaching Business Ethics at a Catholic University

·        Greg Beabout, How Might a Philosopher Teach Business Ethics in a Manner that Helps Students Identify and Develop the Character Traits of an Excellent Manager?

·        Geert Demuijnck, Teaching Business Ethics in European Catholic Business Schools. How Christian Values May Interest Students if not Announced as Such

Respondent: Andre Ata Ujan

Purpose of Business: Engaging Students on the Legal and Theological Meaning of Business

·        Lyman Johnson, Educating Christian Business Managers About Corporate Purpose: A Role for Law (and Lawyers)

·        Deborah Savage, Affirming the Purpose of Business: The Intellectual Conversion of the Business Student

Respondent: Steve Cortright

The Role of Service Learning within Catholic Business Education

·       Winston Tellis, Catholic Social Teaching and Technology? A Service Learning Course at the Dolan School of Business

·      Steve Conroy, Using Immersion Experiences and Community Service Learning  to Promote the Principles of Catholic Social Teaching in an Economics Course

Respondent: Mark Barnard

The Role of Faculty in Promoting Mission-Driven Catholic Business Education

·      Jeanne Buckeye, A Business Faculty Perspective on Catholic Mission, Identity and Social Principles (Five Page Summary)

·      Ray Fitz, S.M., Developing Capacity for Integrating Business Education with the Catholic Social Tradition

·      Doug Gambrall and Mark Newcomb, A Tenured Faith and an Adjunct Faculty: Successes and Challenges in Instructor Formation at Catholic Colleges that Offer Business Programs in an Accelerated Format

Respondent: George Garvey

Current Status of Mission at Catholic Business Schools

·        Joseph Phillips and Teresa Ling, Mission Statements—Do They Matter?

·        Steve Porth, John McCall and Joseph DiAngelo, Business Education at Catholic Universities: Current Status and Future Directions

·        Todd Palmer and Charles Coate, The Transformative Faith-based Education Mission and One School’s Journey to Become a Franciscan Institution (Five Page Summary)

Respondent: Robert Till

Moral Formation of Students at Catholic Business Schools

·        Catharyn Baird, Christina McCale and Aimee Wheaton, How Ought We to Live? Exploring Values Without Prescribing Values: Management, Marketing and Public Policy Classroom Experiences

·        Jessica Warnell, Annie Cahill Kelly and Jay Brandenberger, Business Education and Moral Learning:  A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

·        Brian Schmisek, Rob Walsh and Dale Fodness, The Search for Identity: Emergent Catholicity in the Modern Business School

Respondent: Helen McCullough

Teaching Business Ethics at a Catholic University

·        Marilise Smurthwaite and Douglas Racionzer, St Augustine College of South Africa: Notes on Incorporating the Catholic Social Tradition in Business Ethics Education (Five Page Summary)

·        Scott Kelley, Jack Ruhe and Ron Nahser, Pragmatic Inquiry in Business Ethics: Synthesizing Business and Vocation in Service of the Common Good (Five Page Summary)

Respondent: Thomas Bausch

Teaching Business Ethics at a Catholic University

                 Respondent: Fr. William Kaggwa
                    

Teaching Management at a Catholic University

·        John Gallagher, The Reframing of a Business Discipline: Can Strategic Management be Made Catholic?

·        Declan Murphy and Molly Pyle, How Catholic Spirituality Can Strengthen Emotional Competence in Managerial Situations

Respondent: Perry Devanesan

Dealing with Poverty and Globalization within the Business School Curriculum

·       Gerald Cavanagh, S.J., Jeanne David and Si Hendry, S.J., Business Environmental and Workplace Reporting and Activities and CST: A Practice-based Approach to Education about Catholic Social Thought

·      Brian Toyne, Zaida Martinez and James Ball, Globalization: A Connecting Theme for Catholic Business Education

Respondent: Jose Sols

Integration of the Business School into the Larger University

·        Maura Donahue and Kelly Johnson, Lost in Translation…or in Cultural Differences

·       Molly Pepper, Michael Hazel and Linda Tredennick, Catholic Education in a Parallel Universe: Postcards from a Business School 

                 Respondent: David Krueger

Teaching Accounting at a Catholic University

·        Athar Murtuza, Theresa Henry and Renee Weiss, Integrating GAAP, the Common Good, & Taqwa in Accounting Curricula: An Interfaith Approach (Five Page Summary)

·        Brian Shapiro, Theological Perspectives on the Objective and Subjective Dimensions of the Good Accountant

Respondent: Kevin Misiewicz

 Teaching Business Ethics at a Catholic University

·        James Weber and Virginia Gerde, Mission-driven Business School Education at a Catholic University: The Role of Ethics and Sustainability in Curriculum Development, Faculty Recruitment and Extracurricular Activities  (Five Page Summary)

·        Daniel Lynch, Natural Resources in the Boardroom

Respondent: John Burke

Business and Liberal Education at a Catholic University

·        Ernest Pierucci, Restoring the Broken Image: The Centrality of the Subjective Dimension of Labor and Liberal Education in Catholic Business Education (Five Page Summary)

·      Wolfgang Grassl, The Study of Business as a Liberal Art? Toward an Aristotelian Reconstruction

Respondent: Patricia Johnson

Ignatian Contributions to Catholic Business Education

·        Richard Keeley,  Arresting ‘The Hot Pursuit of Gain’: The Challenge of a First-year Curriculum for Business Students

·        Manuel Dy and Antonette Palma-Angeles, How Jesuit is AGSB (the Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Business)

·        John Workman, Exploring the Potential of a Wiki to Support Catholic and Jesuit Identity (Five Page Summary)

Identity Questions: Using a University’s Religious Charism to Discern

·   John Bunch, Catholic Social Teaching, Virtue Ethics and the Rule of St. Benedict: A Framework for Teaching Applied Ethics based on the Benedictine Tradition of Catholic Social Teaching at Benedictine College (Five Page Summary)

·   Michael Russell, Examination of Current Practices used in Business Schools at Franciscan-based Catholic Colleges to Integrate Franciscan Values in the Curriculum

Respondent: P.M. Mathew

Opportunities and Challenges of New Catholic Business Schools

·        Mario Molteni, The ALTIS experience: A new Business School, ALTIS (Postgraduate School   Business & Society) of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart

·        Sr. Hellen Bandiho, The Challenges Faced by Business Schools within Newly Founded  Catholic Universities: The Case of Tanzania

Respondent: Michal Michalski

·      Cristián del Campo, SJ and Osvaldo Ferreiro, The Challenge of Translating Catholic Social Values in Business Education

·        John Kevin Doyle and Christine Fletcher, The Benedictine Tradition, Catholic Social Teaching and the Misson of Business Education in the Catholic University  

·        Catherine Giunta,  Catholic Education in Higher Education Business Courses

·         Mary Henderson and Megan Kalina, A Model for Integration of Catholic Social Teaching: Sharing Across Disciplines

·        Patricia Johnson, Cultivating Practical Reasoning

·        John Little, The Human Person-The Heart of Business 

·        Michal Michalski, Catholic Business Education-The Missing Link in the Transformation of Polish Economy

·        Robert Till and Patricia Smith, OSF, Business Education at Catholic Universities