Judy Samuelson is a vice president and founder and executive director of the Business and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. Signature programs under her leadership include a 10-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman’s narrative about corporate purpose, the Aspen Principles of Long-Term Value Creation and a partnership with Korn Ferry to rethink executive pay. Samuelson previously worked in legislative affairs in California and banking in New York’s garment center, and she ran the Ford Foundation’s office of program-related investments. The author of “Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World,” she blogs for Quartz at Work. Samuelson is also a Bellagio Fellow and a director of the Financial Health Network.
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