Business Ethics in a Digital Age: Technology and other New Frontiers for Corporate Responsibility, Markets, and Society

All Sessions will be in Room 340 of the Chao Center on the Harvard Business School Campus

Thursday, April 11th

9:30 – 10:00am: Breakfast

10:00 – 11:15am: Bartek Chomanski (Northeastern), “Should There be a Right to Build AI Servants?”

·       Comments by Cansu Canca (AI Ethics Lab)

11:30am – 12:45pm: Rebecca Ruehle (Wittenberg Centre for Ethics), “Corporate Digital Nudging: Targeting Individual Weaknesses”

·       Comments by Valerie Soon (Duke)

12:45 – 1:45pm: Lunch

1:45 – 3:00pm: Vikram Bhargava (Santa Clara), “The Ethics of Making Technology Addictive: Value, Insult, and the Attention Economy”

·       Comments by Tae Wan Kim (Carnegie Mellon)

3:15 – 4:30pm: Elizabeth Edenberg (Georgetown), “The Normative Core of Digital Consent and its Implications for Business Ethics”

·       Comments by Randall Harp (Vermont)

4:45 – 6:00pm: Mihailis Diamantis (Iowa), “The Extended Corporate Mind”

·       Comments by Aaron Ancell (Harvard)

7:00: Dinner

Friday, April 12th

9:30 – 10:00am: Breakfast

10:00 – 11:15am: Keith Hankins (Chapman), “Who Does Data Really Belong To?”

·       Comments by Jeff Moriarty (Bentley)

11:30am – 12:45pm: Chris MacDonald (Ryerson), “Social Media and Digital Vigilantism: Economic and Otherwise”

·       Comments by Matthew Caulfield (Pennsylvania)

12:45 – 1:45pm: Lunch

1:45 – 3:00pm: Elettra Bietti (Harvard), “Locked-in Data Production: User Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy”

·       Comments by Chelsea Rosenthal (Simon Fraser)

3:15 – 4:30pm: Tobey Scharding (Rutgers), “Financial Transactions, Trust, and Blockchain”

·       Comments by John Thrasher (Chapman)