Thursday 26 May
5.00 to 7.00 pm followed by a cocktail
Auditorium 263, Internef Building at the University of Lausanne
M1 UNIL- Dorigny
Parking Dorigny
Economic globalisation, information revolutions, depletion of the earth’s resources, accelerating production cycles, weakening of the nation-state…these are just a few of the challenges facing us in the 21st century. In what ways can responsible management address these issues? Indeed what does responsible management actually mean? How should we educate the world’s future business managers and leaders to face these challenges? In the HEC Lausanne centennial debate, a distinguished panel of business leaders and intellectuals will attempt to answer and discuss these questions.
Open to all.
Moderation by Delia Meth-Cohn from the Economist Group. 
Delia Meth-Cohn is the Editorial Director for Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa, responsible for leading the Economist Group’s content services in the region, including the Economist Corporate Network, a peer network for senior decision makers of multinational companies operating in EMEA. Delia chairs and speaks at conferences around the world and frequently provides in-house briefings to senior executives at international companies. Delia has worked with the Economist Group since 1993, when she joined and later became editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Business Central Europe.
Guido Palazzo, will provide the opening and closing comments. Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne and visiting fellow at Said Business School in Oxford. His research interests are in Corporate Social Responsibility and ethical/unethical decision making. He is associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and European Management Review. His work has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Management Studies.
The panel:
Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, a Fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of directors of Moodys Corporation since 2008, and the 2009 president of the American Finance Association.
Pierre Landolt is currently Chairman of the Sandoz Family Foundation. He is a Director of Syngenta AG. He is a partner of the Swiss private bank Landolt & Cie. In Brazil, Mr. Landolt serves as President of the Instituto Fazenda Tamanduá, the Instituto Estrela de Fomento ao Microcrédito, AxialPar Ltda and Moco Agropecuaria Ltda. In Switzerland, he is Chairman of Emasan AG and Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier SA, Vice Chairman of Parmigiani Fleurier SA,and is on the Board of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Switzerland.
Laura D’Andrea Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business, at the University of California Berkeley. She served as Dean of London Business School from 2002-2006, and as Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley from 1998-2001. Dr. Tyson is a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton Administration and was the Chair of The Council of Economic Advisers (1993-1995) and the President’s National Economic Adviser (1995 – 1996).
Susan George is the author of fourteen books written in French and English and widely translated. She is president of the Board of the Transnational Institute Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice and who are active in civil society in their own countries. She is also honorary president of ATTAC-France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens] where she served as vice-president between 1999 and mid-2006 and remains a member of the scientific council.
Paola Ghillani is the Founder and President of Paola Ghillani & Friends Ltd which promotes and implements sustainable development and ethics in business. She began her career in the pharmaceutical industry at Ciba/Novartis before becoming CEO of the Max Havelaar Foundation. She was President and Chairwoman of the Board of Fairtrade International from 2001 to 2004. Since 2005, Paola Ghillani has been a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She is also a member of the board of Migros, Helvetia Holding Ltd., Romande Energie Holding SA, and a member of the advisory board of ethical investment funds.
Klaus Schwab is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Between 1972 and 2003, he was Professor of Business Policy, at the University of Geneva. He founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and built it into the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. He is the co-founder, with his wife Hilde, of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (1998) which supports social innovation around the world. For his initiatives undertaken in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest and for his reconciliation efforts in several regions, he has received numerous international and national honours, including a Knighthood (KCMG) bestowed by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.
The debate will be in English.
