Profits With Purpose

Amy Newman is a Senior Lecturer Emerita of Management Communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. At the Nolan School of Hotel Administration, she taught courses in business writing, oral communication, persuasive communication, corporate and crisis communication, and organizational behavior. At the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Newman served as the faculty director of Grand Challenges, a community-engaged learning curriculum.

Before Cornell, Newman had a career in human resources at Canon, Scholastic, and Reuters. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at The New School.

Newman is the author of “Recovery at Work: Using Twelve Step Principles for Professional Success,” “Building Leadership Character,” and the textbook “Business Communication and Character” (12th edition). Newman maintains a blog of news stories about business communication and character at amynewman.com.

Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and the author of the award-winning book “Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism.” His research and writing focus on how businesses are creating a more resilient and sustainable capitalism by focusing on the elusive triple bottom line of environmental, social, and financial performance. Prior to joining Cambridge, Professor Marquis worked at Cornell for over six years and Harvard for over 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business and has won awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association. Professor Marquis earned a Ph.D. in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan.

Fred Keller is the Founder and Chair of Cascade Engineering, one of the largest Certified B Corps in the world. He believes that business has the unique opportunity to complement its efforts on financial performance with important social and environmental work. Fred served for 17 years as a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and as an Executive-in-Residence at the Ross School of Business. Fred was a member and chair of the U.S. Department of Commerce Manufacturing Council under Presidents Bush and Obama, and is a trustee for the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.