The Coller School of Management of Tel Aviv University hosted the 2017 Annual European SPES Conference on September 4–6, 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Co-organizing partners included the European SPES Institute and the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest.
The central theme of the conference was developing a new ethos of entrepreneurship in which caring for fellow human beings, future generations and nature play a primordial role. Practical wisdom from the Jewish and other faith traditions suggests that enterprises with a spiritual value orientation can flourish, and serve the interests of business and the wider community better than conventional enterprises that operate according to a narrow financial bottom line.