1. Looking for the Sweet Spot Where Can Jesuit Business Schools Make Their Greatest Contribution to Global Sustainability
John Hollwitz, James A.F. Stoner, and Frank M. Werner
Schools of Business
Fordham University
International Association of Jesuit Business Schools
15th World Forum – Jamshedpur, India
7-10 June 2009

2. “Aspen’s biggest lever is the fact that it is world-renowned; as a result, we get covered by the press all over the world, and a small action on our part can often influence disproportionate change.”
Auden Schendler
Executive Director of Sustainability
Aspen Skiing Company
Getting Green Done, p.92

3. AGENDA Introductions What is global sustainability?
What needs to be done to achieve a sustainable world?
Resources of Jesuit business schools
Where is the best match
What’s do we do next

4. About John
B.A. LeMoyne, M.A. Creighton, Northwestern, Ph.D. Nebraska, Northwestern
Former Dean of Arts and sciences, Loyola Maryland, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Fordham
Author –
Research – organizational wellness, personnel selection, scenario planning, human resource accounting, Chinese/ Asian studies

5. About Frank B.A. Physics and M.B.A. Harvard, Ph.D. Columbia
Former Associate Dean, GBA
Recipient – Gladys and Henry Crown Award for faculty excellence, 1985 and 2004; Stanley Fuchs Award for impact on students, 2008
Chairholder – James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership, 1993–1994
Author – three textbooks, five research books, novel, book chapters, journal articles
Research – quality and finance, the goal of the firm, sustainable finance

6. About Jim B.S. Engineering Antioch, S.M. and Ph.D. MIT
Recipient – Gladys and Henry Crown Award for faculty excellence in 1999, 2005
Chairholder – James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership, 2002–2007
Author – five textbooks (many editions), ten
research books, book chapters, journal articles
Research – 1960s: “risky shift,” 1970s: career plateaus, 1980s–1990s: world class managing, quality and finance, 2000s: managing for global sustainability

7. What is Global Sustainability?
Meeting this generation’s needs in ways that enhance the capacity of future generations to meet their needs (modified Brundtland Commission definition)
A world that works for everyone with no one left out

8. What Needs to be Done to Achieve a Sustainable World?
The Sustainability Equation
Population
Consumption
Production
The domain of a sustainable world

9. What Needs to be Done to Achieve a Sustainable World?
Initiatives That Lead to Sustainability
Impact
Leverage
Passion
The domain of games where we have the greatest opportunities to make a difference

10. What Needs to be Done to Achieve a Sustainable World?
Quality Check – Is the Means Big Enough?
Creative
Risky
Discomforting
The domain of games that stretch us enough to be worthy of our passion

11. What Needs to be Done to Achieve a Sustainable World?
Others’ framings
Senge, et. al.
... …

12. Resources of Jesuit Business Schools
Special resources
Jesuit philosophy
spiritual viewpoint
nature of the schools’ religious traditions
diversity of faculty
Fordham as an example
spiritually-friendly environment
in which discussion of spiritual issues is considered normal and not out of line

13. Resources of Jesuit Business Schools
Non-special resources
talent
skills in organizational change
skills in strategic management

14. Where is the Best Match? Regarding consumption
Most of the world’s consumption is done by a small fraction of the world’s population
Those who consume in excess must consume less
teaching the emptiness of “affluenza”
Those without want (need!) to consume more

15. Where is the Best Match? Regarding production
Most production is done in unsustainable, non-renewable ways
We must find renewable ways of production that do not deplete resources or pollute the planet
stewardship of the earth
teaching “cradle-to-cradle”

16. Where is the Best Match? Regarding population
The implications of 9.5 billion people pressing on the planet’s resources by 2050
We must find ways to limit population growth to a level consistent with sustainable production and consumption
or find ways to dramatically increase sustainable production and consumption to meet a much larger world population

17. Where is the Best Match? Regarding population A sticky political issue
the problem is and will be especially acute in the poorest parts of the world
in the “first world” birth rates are essentially at or below replacement level
the fastest population growth is in the “third world”
A sticky moral/ethical issue
now we limit population by war and starvation
how should population be limited?

18. Where is the Best Match? Regarding population A sticky Catholic issue
the relationship of sexuality and reproduction
beliefs about the moment of the beginning of life
Birth control, abortion
the relationship of the size of the flock to the Church’s power and wealth
Perhaps we have already fulfilled the biblical injunction to “go forth and multiply,” so now it is time to do a bit of subtraction!

19. Where is the Best Match? Special opportunities Regarding other faiths
the possibility of Jesuit business schools as leaders and/or models for schools in other faith-based traditions
the possibility of moving various faiths from emphasizing their differences to emphasizing their common ground around sustainability
the ability to reach fundamentalist groups

20. Where is the Best Match? Special opportunities Regarding population
perhaps only a Catholic institution can have a major influence in reducing population growth
Like Nixon “opening up” China

21. If this is a workshop . . .
Breakout groups
Reporting back
Discussion

22. What’s Do We Do Next?