FRONTLINES QUINLAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS


EVERYDAY ETHICS AL GINI


Why you need a vacation


need to work, want to work, and find fulfillment and purpose in our work. But I’m also convinced that we need to play hard and vacation hard in order to fulfill ourselves as persons. The word “vacation” is derived from


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the Latin word vacare, meaning to be empty or unoccupied, to suspend activ- ity, or simply to do nothing. On vacations we turn aside, go in the opposite direc- tion, and vacate ourselves from our usual course or purpose. The psychologist Wayne E. Oates believes that vacations offer us an opportunity to “empty our- selves of our multiple roles in life.” Vacations are seen as an antidote to


work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labor. Vaca- tions allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, and to rediscover ourselves. Although it is not true for everyone,


we commonly associate vacations with travel. In traveling, we take ourselves outside our normal lives and our usual patterns, seeking delight, diversion, and difference. Travel gives us the opportu- nity or potential for solitude and specula- tion, for wonder and awe. Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang said


the true purpose of travel is not rest or recovery but rediscovery and renewal. In travel, he said, we “should become lost and unknown.” For Lin, vacations are opportunities to rediscover our basic humanness apart from our accustomed personas and roles in life. To have no fixed hours, no e-mails or


phone calls, and no inquisitive neighbors offers us a chance to expand our hori- zons. It is a chance to reevaluate—and possibly redefine—who we are.


urs is a culture whose mythol- ogy is steeped in the “ethics of work.” I’m convinced that we


The business of social justice


2020 PLAN


Can business help create a just world? A group of experts gathered at the Quinlan School of Business to address this question at Quinlan’s final Signature Series event of the


2015-16 academic year. Nearly 120 business lead- ers, faculty, staff, students, and alumni attended the event, which featured a talk by French economist Gaël Giraud, S.J. Giraud’s address touched on a variety of


topics, including Pope Francis’s statements about the need to steward the environ- ment and the environmental impact of developing economies. Energy drives economic growth, Giraud said, but when developing countries increase their carbon output, it has repercussions across the globe. “Climate change is a serious prob- lem we can’t ignore,” he said. “If we don’t do anything, major cities will be under water by the end of the century.” The conversation included a panel com-


careless and inhuman acts of tyrants and fanatics has its consequences, not only in faraway places, but sometimes in our streets as well,” he said. “We’re foolish to think we can do nothing about it or that the causes of these phenomena are not interrelated with the way we live, the way we eat,


Gaël Giraud, S.J., speaks at Quinlan’s Signature Series event


prised of Msgr. Michael M. Boland, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Chicago, and Michael Schuck, professor of theology at Loyola. Kevin Ste- vens, Quinlan’s dean, and Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., Loyola’s chancellor, delivered the opening remarks. Garanzini called attention to the international


Society of Jesus report, “Justice in the Global Economy: Building Sustainable and Inclusive Com- munities,” and the issues highlighted in the report. “The political and social instability caused by the


and the way we work on this side of the globe.” In the evening, another 65 students and others


gathered for a panel discussion on redressing eco- nomic inequality. The panel featured Giraud, Nicki Pecori Fioretti (MBA ’96) of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, and Quinlan professors Timothy Classen, Tassos Malliaris, Linda Tuncay- Zayer, and Clifford Shultz. Quinlan’s Signature Series will resume in the fall, with a continued focus on economic inequality.


New leadership


Anne Smart has been named the new director of Loyola’s Family Business Center, which this year celebrates 25 years of leadership in family business program development and research for family businesses in the Chicago area and around the country. Smart began working with member families


in 2009 and for the past six years has served as the center’s membership director. As director she succeeds Andrew Keyt, who led the center for 18 years. Keyt will remain an integral part of the Family Business Center as a clinical professor in family business within the Quinlan School of Business.


Rising ranking


Quinlan’s undergraduate business programs jumped 54 spots in Bloomberg’s “Best Under- graduate Business Schools” rankings released this spring. For 2016, Quinlan comes in at No. 63 out of 114 programs. “Quinlan is certainly on the move,” says Susan


Ries, Quinlan’s assistant dean for undergradu- ate programs. “This ranking illustrates the high value that employers place on our degree and reinforces Quinlan’s strong reputation in the business community.” The Bloomberg rankings are based on


employer and student surveys, starting salaries, and internships.


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