Business and Society Program

Past Book Talks

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011
Roger Martin | Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL (May 2011)
with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Chief Mergers and Acquisitions reporter for the New York Times, editor of DealBook, and author of Too Big to Fail

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
in partnership with the UCLA School of Law
Lynn A. Stout | Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People (October 2010)
with Floyd Norris, Chief Financial Correspondent of the New York Times

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011 
Parag Khanna How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (January 2011)
with Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of the Economist

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010 
Steven R. Weisman Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary (October 2010)
with Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent of the New York Times

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 
Mary Gentile Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right (August 2010)
with Bruce Kogut, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School, and the Financial Times' Sarah Murray

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
Dan Heath | Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard (February 2010)
with Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
David Wessel | In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (August 2009)
with Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009
Azar Nafisi | Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (December 2008)
with Linda Lehrer, Communications Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009
Nandan Nilekani | Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation (December 2008)
with Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009
Jacqueline Novogratz | The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (March 2009)
with Niko Canner, Katzenbach Partners

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
Michael Kinsley | Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders (December 2008)
with Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Parag Khanna | The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (March 2008)
with Lane Greene, the Economist

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
Mickey Edwards | Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--and How It Can Find Its Way Back (February 2008)
with Sean Wilentz, Princeton University 

TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
Tom Brokaw | BOOM! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the 60's and Today (November 2007)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
Sarah Murray | Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat (November 2007)
with Ken Bloom, CEO of Inttra

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
Jeffrey Toobin | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (September 2007)
with Burt Neuborne, NYU Professor of Law 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Robert D. Hormats | The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars (May 2007)
with Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007
Greg Behman | The Most Noble Adventure: The Story of the Marshall Plan and the Time when America Helped Save Europe (June 2007)
with Elliot Gerson, Executive Vice President of Seminars and Public Programs, The Aspen Institute

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
Rakesh Khurana | From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (2007)
with Joel Podolny, Dean of Yale School of Management

FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2007
Edward Luce In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (January 2007)
and Shashi Tharoor | India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond (1997)

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007
Rory Stewart The Places In Between (May 2006)
with Elliot Gerson, Executive Vice President of Seminars and Public Programs, The Aspen Institute

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
Travis Price | Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture & The Spirit of Place (October 2006) at the Odegard Showroom

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007
David Nasaw | Andrew Carnegie (October 2006)
with Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief, strategy+business

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2006
Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre | Mavericks at Work: Why The Most Original Minds in Business Win (October 2006)
featuring Kathy Cloninger, CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
Andrew Savitz | The Triple Bottom Line (August 2006)

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2006
John Weiser | Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets (May 2006)

MARCH 13, 2006
John C. Bogle | The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism  (September 2005)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006
David Nadler | Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Better Governance (December 2005)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2005
Kenneth Roth | Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? (October 2005)