Business on the Frontlines: Resilience and Adaptability in Times of Turmoil

Explore “Active Hope” as a catalyst for order in Ukraine. Beyond profit, business has become a strategic mandate for survival and a testament to our global solidarity. Join us as we examine how the University of Notre Dame and its partners forge resilience amidst ruin, serving as a powerful “Force for Good.”

Experience the Event

Presented by The Nanovic Institute for European Studies

Speakers include:

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland [KUL])
Yaryna Boychuk (UCU): “How the UCU Business School Grows Its Impact: The Role of Business Within Communities in Wartime Ukraine”
Alejandro Danylyszyn (UCU): “The Business Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”
Georges Enderle (Notre Dame): “Business Ethics Challenges and Ukraine”
Sophia Opatska (UCU): “What Ukraine Can Teach Us About Managing Businesses in Endemic Ongoing Warfare Situations?”

Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine is a collaboration between Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, and Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). The conference, hosted at the University of Notre Dame in March 2025, focused on the positive and corrective response to this destruction, exploring reasons for hope, sources of hope, and the politics and ethics of hope in Ukraine. How is hope powerful or even revolutionary? How does it encourage resilience and recovery? And, above all, how can we build and promote the integral development of hope in Ukraine? The conference explored the concept, dynamics, and practices of hope through keynote addresses, panel discussions, the arts, and liturgical observances. For more information visit the event website.

Co-sponsors included:

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, Ph.D. is an associate professor, chair of the Department of the History of English and Translation Studies, and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Magdalena’s major research interest lies in historical translations of the Psalter, with special focus on prose translations from Latin into Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. She also deals with metrical translations of the Scottish Psalter. Apart from English-language translations, she works on renditions of the Psalter into Polish, and in particular on a 16th-century prose translation from Latin. She deals with various aspects of Psalter translations related to linguistics, translation studies, paleography, and codicology. Magdalena has visited the Nanovic Institute several times, including the fall semester of the 2021- 22 and 2023-24 academic years. She also served as a visiting scholar during the fall of 2017 after completing the Catholic Leadership Institute in July 2017.

Meet the Speaker: Yaryna Boychuk

Yaryna Boychuk is the CEO of the Ukrainian Catholic University Business School (LvBS). She holds a master’s degree in management of foreign economic activity from Lviv National Polytechnic University and has studied economics at Coventry University in the UK. With over 15 years of business experience, she has managed family businesses, launched startups, and developed franchising projects in Ukraine. Her expertise includes leadership, ethics, and purpose-driven organizations. Boychuk has participated in international programs across Europe, North America, and Asia and contributes to strategies for academic and business resilience in Ukraine during challenging times.

Meet the Speaker: Alejandro Danylyszyn

Alejandro Danylyszyn is a Senior Partner at Deloitte Digital, a leader in the Advertising, Marketing and Commerce practice. He works with clients to build digital solutions that address critical business needs – from strategy to systems implementation and operations. His current focus is on driving innovation through the adoption of new technologies and artificial intelligence.

Alejandro is a visiting lecturer at UCU’s L’viv Business School on the topic of digital disruption. He also serves as an advisor to Fortune 500 executives and is a frequent speaker on cutting-edge technology adoption.

Meet the Speaker: Georges Enderle

Georges Enderle is John T. Ryan Jr. Professor Emeritus of International Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business and Concurrent Professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). He is a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. He is former President of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE; 2001-2004). Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 1992, he was doing research and teaching in the field of business ethics in Europe over ten years and was co-founder of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN). He also conducted a number of seminars on business ethics in companies like Ciba-Geigy and BMW.

Since 1994 he has been involved in numerous research and teaching activities in China, particularly at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai (1996-2003), at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Jiaotong University (2011-2013) and in the School of Humanities at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2018). His has authored and edited 20 books and over 160 articles (see Publications) and serves on the Board of Advisors of several academic journals and Centers for Business Ethics (see Editorial and Advisory Positions). He co-chaired the World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil, and the subsequent Congress 2004 in Melbourne, Australia (ISBEE).

His research interests lie in understanding the ethical challenges of international business for corporate decision making, how they are to be analyzed in the context of global pluralism and cultural diversity and lacking background institutions, how they can be met by ethical guidelines, corporate culture, and promoting background institutions.

Meet the Speaker: Sophia Opatska

Sophia Opatska is Vice Rector for Strategic Development at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). She is founding Dean and Chairman of the Board of UCU Business School, Vice President of the European Federation of Catholic Universities (FUCE), and a member of the Board at the first impact investment project in Ukraine, Promprylad.Renovation. Over her career, Sophia has made significant contributions to improving the Ukrainian education system, developing business education in Ukraine, and understanding the challenges of fast-growing organizations, informed by experience in the business sector and educational organizations. In recent years, her research has focused primarily on Resilience, crisis management and leadership in Ukrainian companies, with special attention to insights from the war period.

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