Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business

Michael J. Thate, Ph.D. (Durham University); M.S.L. (Northwestern Pritzker's School of Law), is a Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Faith and Work Initiative, The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His background is a swirl of history, religious studies, ethical philosophy, design, geo-spatial intelligence, and law. He is the author of two monographs: "Remembrance of Things Past?" (Mohr Siebeck 2013) and "The Godman and the Sea" (UPenn Press, 2019). Michael has edited four other volumes and written several articles ranging from suicide, imaginaries of participation, labor, the new space economy, time and money, A.I. policy, etc., which attempt to track and compare the assemblages of ethical questions. He also has worked for ten+ years in corporate consulting, serving industry leaders in design, communications, pharma, aerospace, fin-tech, and real-estate tech.

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Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium. His latest publications include "Responsible Research for Better Business" (Palgrave, 2020) and "Words, Objects and Events in Economics" (Springer, 2021).