The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program has recognized the Wake Forest University School of Business as a global innovator and given the School’s “Why Business?” course a prestigious 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award.
Read MoreThe president and CEO of Stephens, Inc., one of the largest privately held investment banks in the country, was on campus at the invitation of the School’s BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism. His talk, “The Only Way Entrepreneurship Works,” was a conversation with Jim Otteson, the center’s executive director. In Stephens’ opinion, capitalism is an essential factor.
Read MoreThe business world today is facing an identity crisis. The crisis has two parts. First, many employees may struggle to feel connected to the work they do in real and meaningful ways. Younger workers in particular feel a need to find a higher purpose, even a calling, in their work—something that deeply connects to what they value in their private lives.
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