Sunday, February 11, 2007, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Business and Society: Corporations as the change agent
Today, the role of business and society is going through its most profound change in over a hundred years. Many believe that this change represents a major shift in the purpose of doing business that will have a substantial impact on our lives and the lives of generations to come. Emergence of socially responsible companies and public investors that supports their missions are enablers that drives changes in both business and society. This panel will examine examples of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice of transnational corporations and debate these paradigm shifts of the purpose of doing business in the twenty-first century.
Do-Young Kim is Senior Manager of the Corporate Community Relations Team at SK Telecom. He graduated from Chungang University in 1988, with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. In 1988, he entered SK Corporation, and worked in the Office of the Staff to the President as senior manager from 1999 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003, Do-Young Kim worked at the Art Center Nabi as managing director, before moving to the Corporate Community Relations Team which he is currently leading as senior manager. Establishing and executing SK Telecom’s community relations strategy, his team presents new corporate community activity models, such as job creation through company-NGO-government collaboration, public service via mobile technology, and volunteer group work. SK Telecom has received awards from the President and Minister of Labor for its community services. Do-Young Kim also enrolled in a Professional Management Course at the Me-Kyong Business Research Center in 1998. He is also serving as a member of the Community Chest of Korea, the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs’ Committee for Promotion of Volunteer Service, the Korea Red Cross, and Korea Council of Volunteering.
Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist whose research and private practice concern large-scale organizational change and the character of the workforce and workplace. A regular contributor to academic and professional journals, he has authored seven books. Mirvis's consulting concerns large-scale organizational change, mergers and acquisitions, social auditing and innovation, community building, and assessments of work life and cultures. He also has designed and led action learning programs for senior managers. Mirvis is a fellow of the Work/Family Roundtable and Center for Corporate Citizenship and former co-chair of the Board of Directors of The Foundation for Community Encouragement. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is on the adjunct faculty of the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business and was recently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School.
Sonal is currently a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. She is also co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships for Americans of Indian origin to work on specific development projects in India. Sonal Shah was the Associate Director for Economic and National Security Policy at the Center for American Progress. She worked on trade, outsourcing and post conflict reconstruction issues. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Director of Programs and Operations at the Center for Global Development managing the daily operations and serving as a strategic adviser to the president. She also developed and managed policy and advocacy programs for the Center. Before that she worked for eight years at the Department of Treasury on various economic issues and regions of the world. She was the Director of the office covering sub Saharan Africa, worked in Bosnia and Kosovo after the war, and served as the senior adviser to the Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary at the Department of Treasury during the Asian financial crisis.