Management as a Calling: A Training Program

February 12–14, 2026
University of Notre Dame

Business has the power to shape the world—let’s make sure we’re using it wisely.

Too often, business education focuses solely on what to do—the tools, the tactics, the techniques—and not enough on why and when to use them. It’s time to change that.

Management as a Calling is more than a book and more than an award-winning MBA course—it’s a movement to reimagine business leadership as a force for good.

Now, professor and author Andrew Hoffman and Suzanne Shanahan, executive director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Social Concerns, are partnering to bring this vision to life. They’re inviting business faculty from across the country to join them in a bold effort to infuse meaning, purpose, and moral clarity into the business curriculum.

The Workshop

Selected applicants will participate in a fully funded workshop at the University of Notre Dame February 12–14, 2026. At the workshop, faculty will begin developing a version of the course that suits their context. Accepted faculty will be expected to teach the course in the 2026-2027 academic year. Faculty who teach undergraduates are especially encouraged to apply. 

Participating faculty will receive a $2,500 stipend, and all the costs of their attendance at the workshop will be covered. Additionally, participants will:

• Receive feedback and support from experts in pedagogy as they develop the syllabus for their new course or program 
• Be asked to attend four follow-up Zoom sessions to continue the work begun at the workshop
• Be expected to share their final syllabus/program overview
• Required to share information metrics and/or measures of success. 

Keynote Speaker

Rebecca M. Henderson
John and Natty McArthur University Professor
Harvard Business School

Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also has more than twenty-five years of major public board experience. Rebecca’s research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy. Her publications include Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors (University of Chicago Press), Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective (Oxford University Press) and Political Economy and Justice (University of Chicago Press). She is also the author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire which was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award. Her course, “Reweaving Ourselves and the World,” challenges students to do the inner work necessary to address our a loss of connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world as being necessary to address the climate crisis.  

Application

To apply, applicants should compile a single PDF with the following information:

• Background on their institution and the proposed redesigned course (150 words)  
• Justification of the need for a course focused on calling at their institution (500 words)  
• A statement regarding the long-term sustainability of the new course, e.g. Is the department supportive of the proposed course? Will the instructor continue teaching the course in future years? (250 words)  
• Letter of support from Chair or Dean indicating a willingness to support your participation at this workshop
• Instructor CV  

Applications are Due by 12/1. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 12/15. Send complete PDF file to Samantha Deane (sdeane2@nd.edu).