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Listening to Our Neighbors: The Evolving Role of Business and Business Schools
P087, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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During the session, Professor Peter Tufano will discuss new research that surveys people in 14 countries about their conception of the role of business. On the eve of COP27, how should
companies trade off their responsibilities to various constituencies and the planet? How would we create structural means to ensure the voices of multiple constituencies are heard by corporations? And, finally, what should business schools do in this critical time?
About the speaker:
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation professor at Harvard Business School and senior advisor to Harvard’s Salata Insitute for Climate and Sustainability. His research focuses on the role of business in addressing global challenges, especially climate change; he has also studied household finance, financial engineering, and financial innovation. From 2011 to 2021, he was dean of the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, where he championed a novel
approach to working with colleagues across the university and addressing global challenges. He was one of the founders of Business Schools for Climate Leadership.
Previously, he had been a professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School for over two decades and co-founded the Harvard Innovation Lab. He co-founded Commonwealth, which builds financial security and opportunity for financially vulnerable people through innovation and partnerships. He earned his BA, MBA and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University.
About the moderator:
Dina Abdel Fattah is an assistant professor and chair of the Department of Economics at The American University in Cairo. She earned her BA in Economics from The American University in Cairo and her MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. Her research interests include gender economics, labor migration and refugee integration.