Miguel Alzola is assistant professor of Law and Ethics at Fordham University in New York City. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and his Ph.D. in Business Ethics from Rutgers University. His research interests focus on normative ethics (especially business ethics), moral psychology, and political philosophy. He has published on the integration of empirical and normative research on the virtues in psychology, philosophy, and theology. His work has appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society. He has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and research scholarships from Johnson & Johnson and the Prudential Foundation. He holds visiting professorships at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Law (Argentina), Universidad de Chile, and Universidad de Navarra (Spain). His current project is concerned with the development of a theory of managerial virtue. He is also writing about collective agency, corporate reputation, and adversarial ethics. E-mail: alzola@fordham.edu.
Marc A. Cohen is an Associate Professor at Seattle University in the Department of Management. He earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a joint appointment at Seattle University in the Department of Philosophy. Prior to joining Seattle University, Professor Cohen served as vice president and corporate strategist at Branch Banking & Trust Co. (North Carolina), as assistant vice president in the Bank's middle market commercial lending group, and as a management consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now part of Oliver Wyman). He also served as adjunct faculty in the philosophy departments at George Washington University and Wake Forest University. E-mail: cohenm@seattleu.edu.
James Dempsey is Research Fellow in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He works on questions of business ethics and responsibility and since 2012 has worked on the AHRC-funded project on Responsibilities, Ethics and the Financial Crisis (FinCris), of which this paper is an output. E-mail: j.dempsey.1@warwick.ac.uk.
Kenneth Goodpaster earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy at the University of Notre Dame throughout the 1970's before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980, where he developed the ethics curriculum. In 1990 Goodpaster left Harvard to accept the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas. His publications include Conscience and Corporate Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and Policies and Persons: A Casebook in Business Ethics (McGraw-Hill 2006). He also contributed to the Vocation of the Business Leader, issued by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2012). Most recently Goodpaster served as Executive Editor of a much-anticipated history, Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2012) which received the 2014 Academy of Management Best Book Award. In August 2014, he was honored by the Society for Business Ethics for a “Career of Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in the Field of Business Ethics.” He is now Professor Emeritus in the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas (MN). E-mail: kegoodpaster@stthomas.edu.
John Hasnas is an associate professor of business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and an associate professor of law (by courtesy) at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses in ethics and law. Professor Hasnas is also the director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, whose tripartite mission is to produce high-quality research on matters related to the ethics of market activity, improve ethics pedagogy, and educate the broader, non-academic community about ethical issues related to the functioning of markets. Professor Hasnas has been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, DC and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Lafayette College, his J.D. and Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple Law School. E-mail: hasnasj@georgetown.edu.
Tae Wan Kim is an Assistant Professor of Ethics in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Two main themes of his work are developing a Confucian perspective on business ethics and exploring important moral issues in business by drawing upon and further developing western ethical theory. Additionally, he is interested in the relationship between ethics and management research. He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly and Journal of Business Ethics. E-mail: twkim@andrew.cmu.edu.
Rosemarie Monge is an Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at the Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas. Her current research themes involve normative accounts of managerial responsibility and the normative issues arising from behavioral business ethics research. She has previously published in the Journal of Business Ethics. E-mail: mong9166@stthomas.edu.
Pierre-Yves Néron is an assistant professor of economic and social ethics at Lille Catholic University, a researcher at the Centre Éthique Économie Entreprise (C3E) and an affiliated researcher at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). He also teaches in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Management and the Philosophy Institute. He has been previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the political philosophy of markets and business firms. His work combines approaches from business ethics, economics, corporate law, and contemporary political philosophy in grappling with questions of distributive justice and inequalities, the role of the state – and of intergovernmental regulatory bodies – in shaping market structures. He is studying recent developments in the egalitarian thought by attempting to develop a specific understanding of it, associated with the broad “economic democracy” tradition. His articles appeared in Res Publica, Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly. E-mail: pierre-yves.neron@icl-lille.fr.
Jared L. Peifer (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Assistant Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. His research focuses on morality, religion and business. His work has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Social Forces, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Research in the Sociology of Work, Review of Religious Research and Socio-Economic Review. E-mail: jpeifer@baruch.cuny.edu.
Alan Strudler is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he serve as the coordinator of his department’s doctoral program. His current research agenda includes work on the nature of the firm and on the idea of honesty in business transactions. He is an Associate Editor at Business Ethics Quarterly. E-mail: strudler@wharton.upenn.edu.
