Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Off the fall season. Arenado speakers you mentioned ed freeman he has the Professor Business Administration at the Darden School of uva. Today hes going to discuss his latest book which is so relevant given the current discourse that is going on in our nation. He calls the word and the most powerful word in our language. Here to find out why the power of and responsible business without tradeoffs. Thanks very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually at fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism that you mentioned i have that ph. D. In philosophy. That was great. My father said well you will never have to worry about it job because they just opened a bunch of philosophy factories at the interstate. You will be fine. I got very lucky. Ive always taught in Business Schools but i want to recapture today if i can fact as an optimist and idealism in the shadows of this awful pandemic and the real devastation that has occurred in the world in many comm
Put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. And i was really torn between going into science and going into humanities of social scientists. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. And they were all asking the question, what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people. In particularly to make justice. So i ended up, before i ended up deciding to be a Political Science major took this course. I took a had a lack of confidence in my school as a humanist or a social scientist because i did not get very good grades in those courses. But i got really good grades in my science and math courses. So it was kind of a dilemma. I took this Political Science class and i dont remember what
Host Reed Hastings and erin meyer are the coauthors of this new book no rules rules, netflix and the culture of reinvention. Mr. Hastings is also the ceo of netflix and mr. Hastings what is netflix and what do you do . Guest netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service and we reproduce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies and around about 20 years and have been 200 million families around the world who are our renters. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Guest a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago delivering dvds in the United States and competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade ago really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. When thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and im a School Professor and i came across t
Police in order for your data to be put into their system or example and that information is also being used. Sarah brain sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. It is great to be back for the kick off for the fall season and our inaugural speaker is ed freeman and he is the professor of Business Administration at the dart school at uva and today ed has come to discuss his latest book which is so relevant given the current discourse going on in our nation. He calls the word and the most powerful world in our language so lets find out why in the power of and responsible business without tradeoffs. Ed. Thank you for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually at fordham. Many years ago in a fit of useful idealism i got a phd in philosophy and that was great and my father was always terrific and said well, you will never have to worry about a job because i just opened a bunch of philosophy factories by the interstate and you will be fine. I got very lucky to ge