How We Can Save Capitalism (Discussion)

Please join Bowdoin Innovation + Entrepreneurship for a discussion on Accountable: How We Can Save Capitalism on Friday, September 18th from 2:30-3:30 PM EST. On Wednesday, authors Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis are hosting a public event at LSE about their new book, which offers a blueprint for everyone to take responsibility for using their economic power as consumers, as investors, as employees, and as voters to trigger a fundamental shift away from an economy that is unethical, unfair, and destructive to our environment and institutions. On Friday, Cassidy Donohue ’21 will host a discussion about the book with the Bowdoin community. Cassidy has spent the past year working closely with the authors as the Lead Researcher on the project.  
 

Accountable: How we Can Save Capitalism cuts through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: if we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.

Michael O’Leary (@thisismichaelo) was on the founding team of Bain Capital’s social impact fund. He has served as an economic policy advisor in the United States Senate and on two presidential campaigns. Michael studied philosophy at Harvard College and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Warren Valdmanis leads a social impact fund that invests in the American workforce. He was previously a managing director with Bain Capital’s social impact fund, and before that invested with Bain Capital’s private equity team for over a decade. Warren studied economics at Dartmouth College and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.