Business
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On Forswearing Greed
Fri 24 Jul 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Al Sikes
Oaths and the Greater Good
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the pledge taken by members of the Harvard Business School class of 2009.
Guroian and Guptara on Speaking of Faith
Wed 25 Mar 2009 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellows Vigen Guroian and Prabhu Guptara are among the contributors to “Repossessing Virtue,” a series on the economic crisis broadcast by the American Public Media program Speaking of Faith. A one-hour program with their contributions, among others, ran on March 5 and can be found here. Uncut interviews are also available.
Guroian spoke on February 23 on the crisis of imagination that he sees behind the economic issues; you can listen and download here. (The essay he cites, “On the Choice of a Profession” by Robert Louis Stevenson, is available from Google Book Search and the Internet Archive.)
Guptara was interviewed on December 3; you can listen to his interview (with other helpful links) here
Miller interviewed on Corporate Morality
Mon 23 Mar 2009 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow David Miller was interviewed on March 20 by the PBS show Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. You can watch the segment and read the transcript from this link.
How can we have a culture, a corporate culture that accents character, that accents the common good and not just earnings per share or a penny more per share per quarter? That’s a new culture. Is it possible that companies can make a decent profit—create wealth, create jobs, provide goods and services for society and maybe even be a moral community to develop its people? I think it can, but it will take leadership that’s committed to a new vision.
Seed Corn and Spiritual Capital
Thu 05 Feb 2009 by John Seel
Remembering the Prerequisites to Wealth
John Seel offers a review essay on Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, which speaks to the root of the world economic crisis.
Blinded by Self-Interest
Mon 05 Jan 2009 • Responses: 5 • by Fred Harburg
Integrity—A Jewel of Great Price
Senior Fellow Fred Harburg asks whether P. T. Barnum was right. Are we all just suckers? Are we so passive, impotent, and naïve that we will stand by and let those with powerful positions and strong force of personality lie, steal, and cheat innocent people out of their retirement accounts, their life savings, their jobs, and their future?
A Teaching Moment
Mon 08 Dec 2008 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes
A framework of calling and character
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes looks at the current economic crisis as an opportunity to reanimate the timeless wisdom of Solomon for our culture.
A Task Before Him
Wed 05 Nov 2008 by Al Sikes
Formidable Challenges, but Joined by Lincoln’s Legacy
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the legacy and challenges facing the new President-Elect.
The Global Culture of Debt
Fri 31 Oct 2008 by Prabhu Guptara
This essay is adapted from a presentation to the Bettag Konferenz of the EVP (Evangelical People’s Party of Switzerland), 20 September 2008. We are publishing it as background material for the Provocations short piece adapted from Professor Guptara’s lecture on “The Institutionalization of Greed”.
The Institutionalization of Greed
Wed 22 Oct 2008 • Responses: 4 • by Prabhu Guptara
Excerpts from a Trinity Forum Conversation
“As a culture shifts from being focused on tradition or society or God to being focused on money, then the kinds of problems we have had over the past few years are only to be expected.”
A New Bretton Woods for the New Millennium?
Tue 21 Oct 2008 • Responses: 1 • by David Aikman
The global financial crisis, now into its second month as a factor in everyone’s consciousness, has done more than change the dynamics of the current U.S. presidential election. In the U.S. it has shifted the balance, even if only slightly, to Senator Barack Obama. This is because Democratic politicians are generally associated with big government, and many Americans at a time of national financial anxiety instinctively feel that the best thing that can bail them out of trouble is government. But globally, there may be a far more important tectonic shift taking place. This is the sense that global economic leadership may now be transferring itself to the European Union, the 27-member economic confederation of European states.
