Ultimate Questions
A Stakeholder Guide to the Business of Your Life
Published on 31. August 2025
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8139-5426-4 (ISBN)
Description
The accumulated wisdom of a beloved business professor's signature course
Who are we, and who am I? Why are we here, and why am I here? What is the good life, and what is my good life? For years, business ethics professor Andrew Wicks pursued these lines of inquiry in his perennially popular course Ultimate Questions and Creating Value for Stakeholders. Now his book distills the intellectual explorations and hard conversations he and his students navigated together in the classroom into an accessible form available to readers everywhere.
Ultimate Questions is grounded in stakeholder theory: the idea that business leaders need to consider the humanity and complexity of all stakeholders- employees, community members, suppliers, and more- to thrive in ways that go beyond profit. It takes as a given that money is not the only goal of life or work and, like the course, encourages constant curiosity and a spirit of exploration.
Who are we, and who am I? Why are we here, and why am I here? What is the good life, and what is my good life? For years, business ethics professor Andrew Wicks pursued these lines of inquiry in his perennially popular course Ultimate Questions and Creating Value for Stakeholders. Now his book distills the intellectual explorations and hard conversations he and his students navigated together in the classroom into an accessible form available to readers everywhere.
Ultimate Questions is grounded in stakeholder theory: the idea that business leaders need to consider the humanity and complexity of all stakeholders- employees, community members, suppliers, and more- to thrive in ways that go beyond profit. It takes as a given that money is not the only goal of life or work and, like the course, encourages constant curiosity and a spirit of exploration.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-5426-4 (9780813954264)
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Andrew C. Wicks | Alexander S. Bleiberg | John K. Nolan
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A Stakeholder Guide to the Business of Your Life
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Persons
Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration and the Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Alexander S. Bleiberg is a graduate student at the Institute for Clinical Social Work.
John K. Nolan is a graduate student at the University of Aberdeen.
Alexander S. Bleiberg is a graduate student at the Institute for Clinical Social Work.
John K. Nolan is a graduate student at the University of Aberdeen.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Who Are We and Who Am I?
Chapter 2: Why Are We Here and Why Am I Here?
Chapter 3: What Is the Good Life, and What Is My Good Life?
Chapter 4: How Should I Get Along with Others?
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Guide to Having Hard Conversations
Appendix 2: Resources
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1: Who Are We and Who Am I?
Chapter 2: Why Are We Here and Why Am I Here?
Chapter 3: What Is the Good Life, and What Is My Good Life?
Chapter 4: How Should I Get Along with Others?
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Guide to Having Hard Conversations
Appendix 2: Resources
Notes