The Acton Institute’s premier event for business, leadership, ethics, and faith returns Feb. 24, 2022. Join some of the country’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, and industry experts for an exploration of current challenges facing businesses, including managing remote employees, staffing, and the supply chain crisis. Business Matters 2022 presents a unique synthesis of business insight and moral grounding, and was heralded by last year’s participants as “uplifting,” “the standard for virtual conferences,” and “the best investment of time that I have virtually made so far this year.”
Featured Panel: “An Economist, an Ethicist, and an Entrepreneur Explore the Social Responsibility of Business”
What responsibilities do businesses have to society? Is pursuing profit enough, or must they also measure success by their promotion of certain social goals? How should businesspeople view their relationships to stakeholders, including customers, employees, and the environment? Too often, commentary on this multifaceted topic is addressed narrowly from the perspective of one discipline. Business Matters 2022 will feature a panel of experts to explore this challenging issue from multiple angles.acton.org/businessmatters
Panelists
Michael R. Strain is director of Economic Policy Studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. An economist, his research has been published in academic and policy journals, and he has edited three books on economics and public policy. His essays and op-eds have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. He is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinionand the author of The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It). He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell.
Dr. Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He holds a doctor of philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford. Dr. Gregg is the author of 13 books, including Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded (2001), On Ordered Liberty (2003), For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good (2016), and Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (2019).
Nathan Bond is co-founder and CEO of Rifle Paper Co., an international stationery and lifestyle brand based in Winter Park, Fla. Founded in 2009 by Bond and his wife, Anna, Rifle Paper Co. is recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in America, with more than 150 employees, whose product is carried by 5,000 retailers around the world. In 2015, Bond was named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list of young game changers, movers, and makers. He has also been profiled by Inc. magazine and regularly speaks on business and leadership, including at events with Google for Entrepreneurs.
Don’t miss this exciting digital conference, streamed around the globe, on Feb. 24, 2022, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST. Learn more and register at acton.org/businessmatters.
