Should business be about the financial bottom line, or about making the world a better place? How can financial and social goals complement each other, rather than be in tension? What should we make of popular frameworks for thinking about the social responsibility of business, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, stakeholder theory, and ESG investing?

This presentation provides participants with guidance for thinking through questions such as these. The goal of the talk is to help small business owners, and others who are interested, develop their thinking about what it means to do business ethically and how business can contribute to a better world.

Dr. Carson Young is an assistant professor of management at SUNY Brockport. He earned his PhD in Business Ethics & Legal Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 2019. His teaching and research focus on ethics, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, management, and public policy.

Business First Wednesdays are for aspiring or current business owners and is brought to you by the Business Insight Center of the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County and the SUNY Brockport Small Business Development Center. To register, please call the Business Insight Center at 585.428.8106, contact business.insight@libraryweb.org or see below.

This program is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the US Small Business Administration. Services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

PLEASE NOTE: Once registered, the Zoom link will be emailed to you from Business.Insight the day before the event. This series is in an online only format.

SEAP attendees must contact us beforehand and sign into the program with their name in order to qualify to have their form confirmed.