David Weitzner
School of Administrative Studies
Assistant Professor
Office: Atkinson College, 207
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 20124
Email: david.weitzner@yorku.ca
Primary website: Author Site
Attached CV: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/files/Weitzner-Resume-August-2020-SAS.doc
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David Weitzner has a PhD in Strategy, MBA in Arts and Media Management and Hon. BA in Philosophy. His research takes a critical stance on decision making in capitalist environments, leading to publication in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, Critical Perspectives on International Business, SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society and SAGE Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. David co-edited Corporate Social Responsibility (Routledge) and co-authored Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages (McGraw-Hill Ryerson). He is the author of Fifteen Paths: How to Tune out Noise, Turn on Imagination and Find Wisdom (ECW Press) and the forthcoming Connected Capitalism: How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work (University of Toronto Press).
David Weitzner is at heart a philosopher who briefly became a music industry executive and spent over a decade as a professor of strategy at the Schulich School of Business before joining the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.
His education includes a PhD in Strategy, MBA in Arts and Media Management and Hon. BA in Philosophy.
David’s research takes a critical stance on decision making in capitalist environments, leading to publication in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, Critical Perspectives on International Business, SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society and SAGE Encyclopedia of Case Study Research.
David co-edited Corporate Social Responsibility (Routledge) and co-authored Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages (McGraw-Hill Ryerson).
David is the author of Fifteen Paths: How to Tune out Noise, Turn on Imagination and Find Wisdom (ECW Press). It offers prescriptions for imaginative living in today’s noisy and ever-narrowing world. Our social conversation has gone awry. We are surrounded by noise and retreating to social media bubbles. As conversations across ideological divides become increasingly difficult, we as a society need to rethink what it means to listen, to think, to create, and to be democratically engaged citizens. Fifteen Paths documents the journey of a disillusioned business professor who came to realize that in order to transcend the noise, we need more imaginative expressions and fewer argumentative ones. David sought the counsel of fourteen iconoclastic artists, including Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Lydia Lunch, and Del the Funky Homosapien. The book offers 15 concrete courses of action to reimagine a socially engaged life and an afterword documenting the surprising outcome of the author’s personal journey.
His forthcoming book, Connected Capitalism: How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work (University of Toronto Press), is expected in early 2021.
David has presented at a host of international conferences, including Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Business Ethics Society and Business as an Agent of World Benefit co-sponsored by the UN Global Compact. His work has appeared in popular media outlets like Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Spirituality and health, Quillette, The Financial Post Business Magazine, The National Post, Sharp Magazine and the Big Ideas program.
Degrees
PhD Business Policy and Strategy, Schulich School of BusinessMBA, Schulich School of Business
Graduate Diploma Arts & Media Management , Schulich School of Business
Honors Philosophy Bachelor of Arts, Western University
Research Interests
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | AP/ADMS3900 3.0 | N | The Practice of General Management | ONLN |
David Weitzner has a PhD in Strategy, MBA in Arts and Media Management and Hon. BA in Philosophy. His research takes a critical stance on decision making in capitalist environments, leading to publication in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, Critical Perspectives on International Business, SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society and SAGE Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. David co-edited Corporate Social Responsibility (Routledge) and co-authored Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages (McGraw-Hill Ryerson). He is the author of Fifteen Paths: How to Tune out Noise, Turn on Imagination and Find Wisdom (ECW Press) and the forthcoming Connected Capitalism: How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work (University of Toronto Press).
David Weitzner is at heart a philosopher who briefly became a music industry executive and spent over a decade as a professor of strategy at the Schulich School of Business before joining the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.
His education includes a PhD in Strategy, MBA in Arts and Media Management and Hon. BA in Philosophy.
David’s research takes a critical stance on decision making in capitalist environments, leading to publication in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, Critical Perspectives on International Business, SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society and SAGE Encyclopedia of Case Study Research.
David co-edited Corporate Social Responsibility (Routledge) and co-authored Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages (McGraw-Hill Ryerson).
David is the author of Fifteen Paths: How to Tune out Noise, Turn on Imagination and Find Wisdom (ECW Press). It offers prescriptions for imaginative living in today’s noisy and ever-narrowing world. Our social conversation has gone awry. We are surrounded by noise and retreating to social media bubbles. As conversations across ideological divides become increasingly difficult, we as a society need to rethink what it means to listen, to think, to create, and to be democratically engaged citizens. Fifteen Paths documents the journey of a disillusioned business professor who came to realize that in order to transcend the noise, we need more imaginative expressions and fewer argumentative ones. David sought the counsel of fourteen iconoclastic artists, including Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Lydia Lunch, and Del the Funky Homosapien. The book offers 15 concrete courses of action to reimagine a socially engaged life and an afterword documenting the surprising outcome of the author’s personal journey.
His forthcoming book, Connected Capitalism: How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work (University of Toronto Press), is expected in early 2021.
David has presented at a host of international conferences, including Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Business Ethics Society and Business as an Agent of World Benefit co-sponsored by the UN Global Compact. His work has appeared in popular media outlets like Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Spirituality and health, Quillette, The Financial Post Business Magazine, The National Post, Sharp Magazine and the Big Ideas program.
Degrees
PhD Business Policy and Strategy, Schulich School of BusinessMBA, Schulich School of Business
Graduate Diploma Arts & Media Management , Schulich School of Business
Honors Philosophy Bachelor of Arts, Western University
Research Interests
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | AP/ADMS3900 3.0 | N | The Practice of General Management | ONLN |
