Happy New Year! We, Frank Werner (a finance prof) and Jim Stoner (a management prof), are asking for your help in finding finance professors who are uncomfortable about what is currently being taught in finance courses and how that teaching may be contributing to organizational practices inconsistent with moving toward a more sustainable world.
Basically, we are seeking "finance heretics" who disagree with some part of orthodox finance theory and practice and, as a result, are concerned that traditional finance courses teach concepts that are substantively flawed and perhaps damaging to both the student and to society.
We are designing session proposals for the 2011 Academy of Management (AOM – San Antonio, Texas, August 12–16) and Financial Management Association (FMA – Denver, Colorado, October 19–22) annual meetings around the theme of academics who disagree with some part of orthodox finance theory and practice and are acting on their concerns in their teaching and/or research. We are particularly interested in finance professors who see ways in which current finance concepts and practices are contributing to global unsustainability, but we would welcome hearing about any "finance heretics" who are questioning what is currently being taught in finance courses.
Our working title for the sessions is: "Finance Heretics-Who, Why, and What Happens to Them." The proposals would be organized as panel sessions in which each participant would make a brief presentation about her/his experiences as a heretic after which there would be discussion and Q&A.
If you could recommend to us finance academics or practitioners you consider to be finance heretics we would be most appreciative. (Or you might just forward this invitation to them.).
The deadline for submitting proposals is January 11th for the AOM and January 14th for the FMA, so any guidance you can offer will be most appreciated.
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Warm regards,
Frank Werner (werner@fordham.edu) and Jim Stoner (stoner@fordham.edu)