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The Thomistic Institute

How to Do Business and Keep Your Soul | Prof. Andrew Abela

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on January 22nd, 2024, at Yale University.


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About the speaker:


Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and Ordinary Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Catholic Social Doctrine, and internal communication, has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Markets & Morality, and in two books. He is the co-editor of A Catechism for Business, from Catholic University Press, and winner of the 2009 Novak Award, a $10,000 prize given by the Acton Institute for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.”


Dr. Abela also provides consulting and training in internal communications; recent clients of his include Microsoft Corporation, JPMorganChase, and the Corporate Executive Board. Prior to his academic career, he spent several years in industry as brand manager at Procter & Gamble, management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and Managing Director of the Marketing Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Ethics from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Great Falls, Virginia with their six children.

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So the topic, how to do business and keep your soul.

1:03.6

I'm going to take from a Catholic perspective, because that's my background and expertise,

1:07.6

but I'm hoping a lot of what I have to say will be very generally applicable.

1:11.0

And I'll try to keep my comments relatively brief, so then we have time for discussion afterwards.

1:13.3

So we can kind of apply to different situations,

1:16.3

if you like.

1:18.8

The general theme I want to start out with

1:22.2

is the solution to the question of how to be successful in business and still keep your soul is a very faith forward

1:31.3

solution so if you believe in a soul and you have some kind of religious

1:35.3

um background to that or perspective then that's that's where you want to begin so so if you're a praying person, you should be praying a lot.

1:47.3

That's a key part.

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