Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is a business ethics scholar with extensive practical experience in the implementation of human rights through multi-stakeholder initiatives. She is currently the director of research at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and an editorial board member of the Business and Human Rights Journal. She has published widely on topics at the intersection of business ethics, corporate responsibility, and human rights. She is the author of Managing Corporate Legitimacy (Greenleaf, 2013) and co-editor of Business and Human Rights - From Principles to Practice (Routledge, 2016). Dorothee received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
Dr. Rick Cooper is Assistant Professor of Finance at Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech. He has taught all aspects of financial theory, investments, and corporate finance at Wayne State University, Harvard University, and Vanderbilt University. He began his professional career with State Street Global Advisors in Boston, where he quickly rose from Active International Portfolio Manager, to co-founder of the Enhanced Index Group, to co-founder and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Center. He then worked as Senior Partner and Director of Analytics for Harris Investment Management. He currently serves as a research consultant and Director of Risk Management for Xambala, Inc.’s proprietary high frequency trading systems. His research has been published in the Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Analyst’s Journal, the Journal of Financial Economics, and several other books and journals. Dr. Cooper has been a speaker at numerous conferences, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Davis (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972) is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at Case-Western Reserve, Illinois State, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 1991, he has held—among other grants—four from the National Science Foundation to integrate ethics into technical courses. Davis has published more than 200 articles (and chapters) and authored seven books, including: Thinking Like an Engineer (Oxford, 1998); Ethics and the University (Routledge, 1999); and Profession, Code, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2002). He has also edited or co-edited five other books: Ethics and the Legal Professions (Prometheus, 1986) AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994); Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Oxford, 2001) and Engineering Ethics (Ashgate, 2005); and Ethics and the Legal Profession, 2 nded. (2009).
Joseph DesJardins holds the Ralph Gross Chair in Business and the Liberal Arts, and is Professor of Philosophy, at the College of St Benedict and St John’s University in Minnesota. He received his B.A. from Southern Connecticut State University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. DesJardins is the author or editor of a number of books in business ethics, including: Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, with John McCall (2014); An Introduction to Business Ethics (2011); and Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity and Social Justice, with Laura Hartman and Chris MacDonald (2014). He has published and lectured widely in the areas of business ethics, environmental ethics, and sustainability and ethics. He is immediate Past President of the Society for Business Ethics and has previously served the Society as a member of the Board of Directors, as Executive Director, and as editor of the SBE Newsletter.
Andrew Gustafson is Associate Professor in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University. His teaching and research focus on the work of J.S. Mill and business ethics, most recently on how business can contribute to the common good and the ways that faith can contribute to one’s understanding of work. Professor Gustafson received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Marquette University.
Tobias Gössling, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and specializes in the areas of institutional economics, corporate social responsibility and organizational networks. His book, Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Performance: Theories and Evidence about Organizational Responsibility (Edward Elgar), was published in 2011.
Konstantinos Iatridis is an Assistant Professor of Business and Society in the School of Management at the University of Bath. He has worked with FTSE100 listed companies on a range of corporate responsibility consulting projects and completed a Ph.D. in corporate responsibility culminating in over 14 years of academic and practical experience in this area. He is co-author of the book Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry: The Case for Corporate Responsibility Tools and has published in the Journal of Business Ethics.
Andrei Kuznetsov is Professor of international corporate social responsibility at the University of Central Lancashire Business School and a Deputy-Director of the Lancashire Institute for Economic and Business Research (LIEBR). He has doctorates in Economics and in Political and Social Sciences. Apart from CSR, his research interests include cross-cultural management, corporate governance, financial and labor markets in transition economies. His research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Management, International Studies of Management & Organization, among others.
Ruth Sealy is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organizational Psychology at City University London and visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management. Formerly Deputy Director of International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield, Ruth led the research for the UK’s annual Female FTSE Report since 2007. Sponsored by government and major organizations, the report has considerable research impact and reputation, with the findings cited in media and practitioner journals across the world. She has co-authored similar reports in Hong Kong and India. Ruth’s research areas include women in leadership, board composition and governance, role models, and career aspirations. She has published in journals such as Corporate Governance International Review, International Journal of Management reviews, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Gender Work & Organization, and has co-authored Best Papers at Academy of Management and British Academy of Management conferences. She received her PhD from Cranfield.
Siri Terjesen is a Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Visiting Scholar at Catalyst, and will soon join American University’s Kogod School of Business as a Chair in Entrepreneurship. She is the Director of the annual GEDI Female Entrepreneurship Index and Membership Chair for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. She is an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education and an editorial board member of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Corporate Governance: International Review. Her research in strategy, corporate governance, and gender has been published in leading journals including Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics, and covered by the international media. She received her Bacherlors from University of Richmond, Masters from NHH, and PhD from Cranfield.
Satish Thosar received his Ph.D. in finance from Indiana University and teaches at the University of Redlands. His current research interests include IPO aftermarket dynamics, executive compensation structures, corporate bankruptcies and anomalies in housing markets. His work has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and The Financial Review, among other journals.
Linda Treviño is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ethics in the Department of Management and Organization in the Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the management of ethical conduct in organizations. She has authored over 80 journal articles and 3 books including a textbook co-authored, with Katherine Nelson, Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk About How to do it Right, originally published by John Wiley in 1995 (sixth edition, 2014). Professor Treviño has served as a core faculty member in the Business Roundtable’s Institute for Business Ethics since 2004. She currently serves on the editorial review board of Administrative Science Quarterly and serves as Associate Editor at Business Ethics Quarterly. She has also served as Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review. She was selected as an Academy of Management Fellow in 2007. She recently helped to launch a new website called EthicalSystems.org which is designed to offer up-to-date information about developing ethical organizational systems to academics and practitioners.
Dr. Ben Van Vliet is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech, where he teaches courses in C++ and C# programming for quantitative finance and automated trading system design and development. He is also the Director of the Stuart Center for Strategic Finance. He is the author/co-author of three books on algorithmic trading—Quality Money Management, Modeling Financial Markets, and Building Automated Trading Systems. His academic papers on algorithmic/high frequency trading and quantitative finance have appeared in Journal of Derivatives, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Journal of Trading. His research on ethics in high frequency trading has been featured in Forbes. He has been quoted extensively in the national media on high frequency trading, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, IEEE Spectrum, WIRED, Institutional Investor, Automated Trader, Reuters, and Yahoo! News.
Philip B. Whyman is Professor of economics and Director of the Lancashire Institute for Economic and Business Research (LIEBR) at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). He is author and/or editor of sixteen books and more than fifty papers in learned journals.
Xiaoming Zheng is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership and Organization Management, School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in China. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include leadership, positive organizational behavior, and (un)ethical behavior.
Weichun Zhu is an assistant professor at the School of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in management (OB) from University of Nebraska Lincoln. His primary research interests include leadership (ethical leadership, and innovative leadership), ethics, leadership and ethics in the cross-cultural contexts. He has published more than 30 articles, in journals such as Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB). He has also served as the guest editor for JOB’s special issue entitled “Organizational Behavioral Issues in China.”
