The Business, Faith and Common Good Institute is very pleased to host Alejo Sison, former president of the Society for Business Ethics as well as former President of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) to provide a talk on a human-centered approach to AI in business. The talk will be April 14th 430-530 in Harper 3048. All are welcome!!

This is a video of Gustafson’s invited talk for the Fall Humanities Forum at Providence College in October of 2025.

Thursday March 19th at 6pm we will be screening the new documentary of Adam Smith at Heider College of Business. All are welcome! The director, Jon Cipiti will be joining us, as will Bruce Shaw of Georgetown University who helped bring about the creation of the film. See the trailer here.

We had the pleasure and good fortune to interview Emery Koenig, former vice chairman and chief risk officer at ​​Cargil, about his 37 year career at Cargil and his 47 years commitment as a married member of the Focolare spiritual movement. His personal faith values have deeply impacted how he thinks about business, and he was able to share countless interesting stories of how he lived out his faith and commitment to Focolare spirituality in his business life. It was a fantastic time, and we got nearly 8 hours of footage with him while visiting Ave Maria near Naples.

Andy Gustafson got to go visit 5 classes in the business school at Ave Maria University in South Florida near Naples mid-February. It was a great opportunity to get to share about the Economy of Communion vision of business, and how business need not be a soul-sucking endeavor, as well as sharing about the Economy of Communion Project (funded by the John Templeton Foundation). Ave Maria is an amazing place. It was just open fields just over 20 years ago, and now there is a whole campus and sizable town with a gorgeous church in its center.

This is a half-hour interview from November. It was great to get to engage with and Mariella and Gabor. They were great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbjHX6E958

The Economy of Communion Project continued our series of interviews, the third being John Mundell, president and founder of Mundell and Associates in Indianapolis, an environmental consulting company. With a background in civil and geotechnical engineering, John has spent 45 years running his business according to Economy of Communion Values. He had numerous stories, and provided some rich material in 15 hours of video footage we took while he was here! Our interns also enjoyed getting to know him and found his work inspirational. Snippets and case studies from his interview (and all the interviews) will soon be available on our site at https://www.economyofcommunion.org/

The EoC Project welcomed Paul Catipon, CEO of NetPro in New York City to Creighton October 20-22nd to be interviewed as one of the eight Economy of Communion Entrepreneurs to be interviewed this Fall. He has powerful stories of how he built up a company through incredible generosity and open-handedness to friends and competitors. His success story is truly inspiring and will provide a lot of great snippets for use in classroom discussion as the EoC project develops course curriculum for its website.

8 Entrepreneurs will be interviewed this fall, and another 4-6 this spring, all sharing stories of putting people first and living out their values of love and unity first, with profits being a necessary, but not sufficient, basis for running a business.

For more on the EoC Project, or to sign up for updates, please check out https://www.economyofcommunion.org/

Andy Gustafson, director of the BFCGI, is going to do three presentations at Providence College October 17th. He will do a morning coffee table event with selected business students, meet with faculty from the business school to discuss Jesuit Catholic Business School education for lunch, and do a public talk on How Business Can Make You a Better Human Being.