Business Ethics in a Digital Age: Technology and other New Frontiers for Corporate Responsibility, Markets, and Society

Date: 

Thu - Fri, Apr 11 to Apr 12, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Business School, 25 Harvard Way, Boston

This conference aims to identify new research topics in business ethics, including but not limited to topics that arise in a post-internet society. As such, we aim to promote excellent philosophical investigation of important new topics that are not already well-worn in business ethics.

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Program

Thursday, April 11
9:30 - 10:00 am
- Breakfast

10:00 - 11:15 am "Should There be a Right to Build AI Servants?," Bartek Chomanski (Northeastern)
Comments by Cansu Canca (AI Ethics Lab)

11:30 am - 12:45 pm - "Corporate Digital Nudging: Targeting Individual Weaknesses," Rebecca Ruehle (Wittenberg Centre for Ethics)
Comments by Valerie Soon (Duke)

12:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 pm "The Ethics of Making Technology Addictive: Value, Insult, and the Attention Economy," Vikram Bhargava (Santa Clara)
Comments by Tae Wan Kim (Carnegie Mellon)

3:15 - 4:30 pm "The Normative Core of Digital Consent and its Implications for Business Ethics," Elizabeth Edenberg (Georgetown)
Comments by Randall Harp (Vermont)

4:45 - 6:00 pm - "The Extended Corporate Mind," Mihailis Diamantis (Iowa)
Comments by Aaron Ancell (Harvard)

7:00 pm Dinner


Friday, April 12
9:30 - 10:00 am Breakfast

10:00 - 11:15 am "Who Does Data Really Belong To?," Keith Hankins (Chapman)
Comments by Jeff Moriarty (Bentley)

11:30 am - 12:45 pm "Social Media and Digital Vigilantism: Economic and Otherwise," Chris MacDonald (Ryerson)
Comments by Matthew Caulfield (Pennsylvania)

12:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 pm - "Locked-in Data Production: User Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy," Elettra Bietti (Harvard)
Comments by Chelsea Rosenthal (Simon Fraser)

3:00 - 4:15 pm "Financial Transactions, Trust, and Blockchain," Tobey Scharding (Rutgers)
Comments by John Thrasher (Chapman)

 

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