Teaching

The Roles and Duties of Management

In 2011 Fall Laszlo Zsolnai teaches a core course "The Roles and Duties of Management" in the CEMS MIM program at the Corvinus University of Budapest. The course introduces the new management profile based on the CEMS MIM qualification framework. The future international manager is defined as a reflexive practitioner who is committed to environmental sustainability, exercises social responsibility, works with sensitivity toward gender and diversity issues, harmonizes information and communications technologies with processes and organizational culture, applies holistic perspective in problem solving, cooperates with social and political actors, and is engaged in progressive entrepreneurship.

Teaching at Venice International University

Laszlo Zsolnai was teaching a class on Environmental Ethics in the program "Sustainable Development for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region" in July 5, 2010 in Venice. The program was organized by the Regional Environmental Center and the Venice International University.

Zsolnai argued that society affects the natural environment at different levels. Individual biological creatures are affected by business via hunting, fishing, agriculture, animal testing, etc. Natural ecosystems are affected by business via mining, regulating rivers, building, polluting the air, water and land, etc. The Earth as a whole is affected by business via exterminating species, contributing to climate change, etc.

Teaching in St. Gallen

In March and April, 2010 Laszlo Zsolnai teaches a course "Ethics in Business and Economics" at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Teaching in Heilbronn

Laszlo Zsolnai was Visiting Professor at the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn in 2009 April and May. He was teaching a Businees Ethics course in the MBA program.

Bocconi Visiting Professorship

From March-June 2008, Laszlo Zsolnai was visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Jointly with Antonio Tencati, he taught in the Environmental Management and the Corporate Social Responsibility master’s programs of Bocconi University.

Teaching in Bodo

From November 15-17, 2006 Laszlo Zsolnai taught a class on Buddhist Economics at the Bodo Graduate School of Business for the students of the Ecological Economics and Environmental Ethics master’s program.

Visiting Professorship in Antwerp

From February-April 2006, Laszlo Zsolnai was UCSIA Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. During his stay he taught classes on Deep Ecology, Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Economics and Environmental Ethics in different programs at the University of Antwerp.

Teaching at EHSAL

From December 13-17, 2006, Laszlo Zsolnai taught a crash course in business ethics at EHSAL in Brussels. The module of the course included “The Moral Economic Man,” “Stakeholder Theory of Business,” “Ethical Decision Making” and “Ethics in Competitive Markets.” Nearly 70 students enrolled in the course from Europe, Asia and Africa.

ESSEC-Mannheim EMBA module

On December 3, 2005 Laszlo Zsolnai has taught a business ethics module in the prestigious French-German ESSEC-Mannheim Executive MBA Program in Budapest. Zsolnai was lecturing on “The Moral Economic Man” and “The Cost and Benefit of Socially Responsible Business” and presented the “International Business Ethics” video produced by the Business Ethics Center.

“Business and Ecology” MBA Course in Vienna

In August 2004, Laszlo Zsolnai taught a „Business & Ecology” course for the International MBA Program of the University of Economics in Vienna, Austria. The topics of the course were as follows: (1) Business and the Natural Environment, (2) Environmental Ethics, (3) The Stakeholder View of the Firm, (4) Corporate Social Responsibility, (5) Ethical Decision Making, (6) „Natural Capitalism” and (7) Sustainable Business. American, Mexican and Scandinavian students participated in the course.