Margaret Blair is an economist who focuses on corporate law and finance. Her current research focuses on five areas: team production and the role of corporate boards of directors, the legal concept of “personhood,” the historical treatment of corporations by the Supreme Court, the role of private-sector governance arrangements in contract enforcement, and the problem of excessive leverage in financial markets. Professor Blair joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2004 as part of the team supporting the Law and Business Program and was appointed to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise in 2010. She had previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center, where she became a visiting professor in 1996 and served as a Sloan Visiting Professor and as research director for the Sloan-GULC Project on Business Institutions, from 2000 through June 2004. She has also been a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where she directed research and wrote about corporate governance and the role of human capital in corporations. She served on the board of directors of Sonic Corporation from 2001 to 2006 and currently serves on the board of WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production).
Dennis Earl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. He received a BS in philosophy from North Carolina State University, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to business ethics, his research interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He also teaches courses in logic and the history of philosophy.
Joseph P. Gaspar is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University. His research focuses on deception in negotiations and ethical decision making in organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Management and Global Business from Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick at Rutgers, The State University of NJ.
Nien-hê Hsieh is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He writes about ethical issues in business and the responsibilities of global business leaders. His current research concerns questions about harm, risk, and complicity in the context of business activity, and the purpose of business. Prior to Harvard Business School, he was associate professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as President of the Society for Business Ethics.
Peter L. Jennings is as an Assistant Professor of Management at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. His research focuses on moral character and its significance to the practice of leadership. His work has appeared in leading academic journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Dynamics, Organizational Psychology Review and Military Psychology. His prior professional experience includes management positions at IBM, management consulting at Price Waterhouse, as well as combat military service as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned his undergraduate degree from Miami University, his MBA from Michigan State University, and his Ph.D. in Management from Arizona State University.
Geoff Moore is Professor of Business Ethics at Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK. He has published in a range of internationally recognized journals including Organization Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and Journal of Business Ethics. He is a member of the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly and Business Ethics: A European Review, and previously of Journal of Business Ethics. In addition to work on Fair Trade, his research has focused mainly on the application of virtue ethics to business organizations drawing particularly on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre.
Tricia D. Olsen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the Korbel School of International Studies. Her research currently focuses on the patterns associated with corporate human rights violations and the involvement of states in remedying human rights abuse. She has also written on microfinance in emerging economies. Professor Olsen is the co-author of Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy and has published in numerous outlets, including Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Peace Research, and the International Journal of Transitional Justice.
Marietta Peytcheva is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Lehigh University. Her research examines judgment and decision making in accounting and auditing contexts, and ethical decision making by independent auditors. She received her Ph.D. from the Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick at Rutgers, The State University of NJ.
Andreas Georg Scherer holds the Chair of Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research interests are in Business Ethics, Critical Theory, International Management, Organization Theory, and Philosophy of Science. He has published nine books. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Organization Studies, and in numerous volumes and other journals. He is an associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and member of the editorial boards of Journal of Management Studies, Organization, and Organization Studies.
Amy Sepinwall is an assistant professor at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics. She received her B.A. in Philosophy and English from McGill University, where she also earned a Masters degree in Bioethics and Philosophy. She graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown. Her research proceeds along two streams, the first looking at questions of responsibility for financial and corporate wrongdoing, and the second interrogating the notion of corporate constitutional rights.
Andrew Stark is a professor of strategic management and political science at the University of Toronto. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He is the author of three books: Conflict of Interest in American Public Life (Harvard University Press, 2000), The Limits of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Ethics, Harvard Business Review, Dissent, The American Scholar, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal and other publications.
Oscar Jerome Stewart is a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Primarily interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR), business ethics, organizational theory, and strategy, He explores how business organizations shape economic, social, political, and environmental outcomes across nations. Stewart’s current research includes empirical projects exploring environmental sustainability and the values of organizational leaders, conditions for organizational integrity, and a case study exploring the role of social in building an organizational capacity for resilience. Additionally, in his dissertation, he conceptualizes corporate irresponsibility and its foundation as a deliberate corporate strategy. Stewart has taught various organizational courses including principles of management, organizational behavior, and industrial & organizational psychology.
Manuel Velasquez is the author of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Prentice-Hall), the most widely used business ethics textbook in the world. Known as the father of academic business ethics, Velasquez is the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at the Santa Clara University, where he holds appointments in the department of Management and the department of Philosophy and teaches courses in business ethics, business and public policy and in business strategy. The author of numerous articles and case studies on business ethics, Velasquez also wrote Philosophy: A Text with Readings, 11th edition, (Wadsworth Cengage, 2011) and has provided consulting and training in business ethics for several companies, as well as workshops on teaching business ethics to more than 2,000 business school faculty. Velasquez received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Gonzaga University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Danielle E. Warren is an Associate Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick. She specializes in the study of constructive and destructive deviance, formal ethics training, moral emotions and workplace sanctions. She received her Ph.D. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
