Ultimate Questions: A Stakeholder Guide to the Business of Your Life - Hardcover

Wicks, Andrew C.; Bleiberg, Alexander S.; Nolan, John K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813954266 ISBN 13: 9780813954264

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2025

Synopsis

The accumulated wisdom of a beloved business professor's signature course

Who are we, and who am I? Why are we here, and why am I here? What is the good life, and what is my good life? For years, business ethics professor Andrew Wicks pursued these lines of inquiry in his perennially popular course Ultimate Questions and Creating Value for Stakeholders. Now his book distills the intellectual explorations and hard conversations he and his students navigated together in the classroom into an accessible form available to readers everywhere.

Ultimate Questions is grounded in stakeholder theory: the idea that business leaders need to consider the humanity and complexity of all stakeholders&mdash employees, community members, suppliers, and more&mdash to thrive in ways that go beyond profit. It takes as a given that money is not the only goal of life or work and, like the course, encourages constant curiosity and a spirit of exploration.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration and the Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Alexander S. Bleiberg is a graduate student at the Institute for Clinical Social Work.

John K. Nolan is a graduate student at the University of Aberdeen.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813954266
• ISBN 13: 9780813954264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208