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Cornerstone for Business Conference

2025 Conference Schedule

Tuesday, April 29Convergence Center, 101 Foundry Drive, West Lafayette, IN

6:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Jim Bullard

  • Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business
  • Distinguished Professor of Service and Professor of Economics
  • Special Advisor to the President

David Reingold

  • Senior Vice President for Policy Planning
  • Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
  • Professor of Sociology

Wednesday, April 30South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union, 101 Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:15 AM

Welcome

Jim Bullard

  • Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business
  • Distinguished Professor of Service and Professor of Economics
  • Special Advisor to the President

9:30 AM

Opening Keynote Chat

Mitch Daniels

  • President Emeritus of Purdue University
  • Former Governor of Indiana
  • Chairman of the Board of the Purdue Research Foundation
  • Distinguished Scholar and Senior Advisor at the Liberty Fund

Kelly Blanchard

  • Associate Dean for Student Experience and Undergraduate Programs, Daniels School of Business
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Economics

Melinda Zook

  • Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, Purdue University
  • Germaine Seelye Osterle Professor of History

10:45 AM

Creating Value: Shareholders and Stakeholders, Fireside Chat

Andreas Widmer

  • Director of the Arthur & Carlyse Cicocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship
  • Associate Professor of Practice at Catholic University
  • Author of The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship: Creating Enduring Value

Dave Randich

  • Law, Communications & Ethics Lecturer, Purdue University

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch and Table Discussions

1:15 PM

Democracy and Business, Lecture

Jeff Rosen

  • President and CEO of the National Constitution Center
  • Author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Mara Faccio

  • Tom Patty Hefner Chair in Finance
  • Professor of Management, Mitch Daniels School of Business

2:30 PM

Markets and Human Progress, Lecture

Dominic Pino

  • Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellow at National Review Institute

3:30 PM

Break

4:00 PM

Business and the Boundaries of AI, Panel & Discussion

Kasie Roberson

  • Clinical Assistant Professor in Business Communication, Mitch Daniels School of Business
  • Associate Director of Outreach and Coaching for the Center for Working Well (CWW) at Purdue University

Roy DeJoie

  • Clinical Associate Professor in Management Information Systems, Mitch Daniels School of Business

Mohammad Rahman

  • Chair in Management
  • Professor of Management, Mitch Daniels School of Business

Eamon Duede

  • Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Purdue University
  • Joint appointment with Data Science & Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, affiliated with Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Business School and the Embedded EthiCS program in Philosophy and Computer Science

Erika Gilmore

  • Vice President of HR - Global Learning & Development at Eli Lily and Company

5:00 PM

Cocktail Reception

6:00 PM

Dinner Begins

6:10 PM

Celebration of Cornerstone for Business Case Competition Winners

James Mollison

  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Cornerstone, Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy

Doug Pruim

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Management, Law, Communication, and Ethics
  • Director of the Center for Business Communication

7:05 PM

Finale Keynote

Veronique de Rugy

  • George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy
  • Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
  • Nationally syndicated columnist

Juliette Sellgren

  • Creator and host of "The Great Antidote" podcast

8:10 PM

Closing Remarks and Conclusion