{"id":97788,"date":"2021-02-18T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/?p=97788"},"modified":"2021-02-17T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:06:45","slug":"today-noon-purpose-profit-and-the-responsibility-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/today-noon-purpose-profit-and-the-responsibility-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ Noon: Purpose, Profit, and the Responsibility of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at London Business School and the author of &#8220;Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit,&#8221; will discuss the role of business in today&#8217;s society. Business is often accused of degrading the environment and exploiting both workers and consumers. It is also frequently called upon to prioritize consumers&#8217; concerns about issues such as climate change, equity, and diversity. But can business realistically serve a social purpose and deliver a profit too?<\/p>\n<p>Access this event here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3dwiTIv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3dwiTIv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Purpose, Profit, and the Responsibility of Business<\/p>\n<p>Start Date: 2021-02-18<br \/>\nStart Time: 12:00PM<br \/>\nEnd Date: 2021-02-18<br \/>\nEnd Time: 01:00PM<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Sagan National Colloquium.<br \/>\nContact: Matt Vollrath at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mdvollra@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mdvollra@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at London Business School and the author of &#8220;Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit,&#8221; will discuss the role of business in today&#8217;s society. Business is often accused of degrading the environment and exploiting both workers and consumers. It is also frequently called upon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97789,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97788\/revisions\/97789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}