Fri, January 20, 2017 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM See description. Free. *Please note that there has been a change in time to 4pm and venue to Room 104, UBC Graduate School of Journalism.
Pietra Rivoli is a professor at Georgetown University who specializes in international business and social justice. She wrote the best-selling academic book “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy,” which was the basis of the successful NPR Planet Money documentary, The Making of a T-Shirt.
Bio: Pietra Rivoli teaches finance and international business in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs. Professor Rivoli has special interests in social justice issues in international business and in China, and she regularly leads MBA residencies to China. Her academic research has been published in numerous leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Journal of Money Credit and Banking.
Professor Rivoli’s book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (2005, 2009, 2014), has been widely acclaimed by both the popular press and the academic community as a pathbreaking study of globalization. Professor Rivoli’s book has received numerous awards, including one of the best business books of the year by the Financial Times, Booz Allen Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, the Library Journal, and by Amazon.com. In addition, the book was also named as a finalist for the Inaugural Financial-Times-Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Award.
Co-sponsored by the Global Reporting Centre, the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and The Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, UBC Sauder School of Business.