Daniel Arenas is Associate Professor at ESADE-Ramon Llull University, where he is currently the Chair of the Social Sciences Department as well as Research Coordinator of the Institute for Social Innovation. He holds a PhD and a MA from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a Diploma from the Program of Executive Development at ESADE. He teaches courses on Sociology, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. His research interests include relations between activists and firms, stakeholder theory, the political roles of firms, and duties towards future generations.
Jennifer Goodman is a PhD candidate in Management Sciences at the Institute for Social Innovation, ESADE Business School, Barcelona and a recent visiting researcher at Carleton University, Ottawa forming part of the Responsible Investing Initiative Community University Research Alliance. She holds a Masters of Research in Management Sciences from ESADE, an MBA from Warwick Business School, a Diplôme de Commerce International from ESSEC, France, and a BA in International Business with French from the University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on the role of business in society specifically addressing social shareholder engagement. She regularly teaches Business and Society on the ESADE MBA and other Masters programmes. Research and teaching interests include business ethics, responsible investment, corporate governance, stakeholder/shareholder collaboration, CSR and sustainability. E-mail: jennifer.goodman@esade.edu.
Michael Kates is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He has a broad range of interests in political philosophy and applied ethics and is currently writing a book manuscript on the problem of global labor justice entitled “The Ethics of Sweatshops and the Demands of Justice in an Unjust World.” E-mail: mk1501@georgetown.edu.
Barry Padgett is the James M. Medlin Chair of Business Ethics and Professor of Management at Belmont University. His prior appointment was at Bellarmine University where he directed the Ethics and Social Justice Program. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, including the Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, he has authored two books including Professional Morality and ‘Guilty Bystanding:' Merton's Conjectures and the Value of Work. Professor Padgett received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. E-mail: barry.padgett@belmont.edu.
Michael H. Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the Business school, the first-ever human rights center at a business school. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Posner served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2013 as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In 2010 he chaired the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization. While at Human Rights First he was a founding board member of the Fair Labor Association. Before joining Human Rights First, Posner was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago. From 1981 until 2009 he was a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, and then Columbia Law School. A member of the California Bar and the Illinois Bar, he received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. E-mail: mposner@stern.nyu.edu.
Stacey Sanders is a PhD Student at the University of Groningen. Her research interests include ethical leadership, abusive supervision, emotions, power, and dark triad traits. E-mail: s.sanders@rug.nl.
Tobey K. Scharding is an assistant professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, where she wrote a dissertation under the supervision of Joshua Cohen, Debra Satz, and Allen Wood. She researches topics in business ethics including the ethics of financial risk, Kantian ethics, distributive justice, and political economy. Her work has previously appeared in Social Theory and Practice and is forthcoming in Teaching Ethics. Her book, This is Business Ethics, is under contract with Wiley. E-mail: tschardi@bloomu.edu.
S. Prakash Sethi is University Distinguished Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York. He holds an MA degree from Delhi University, India, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York. Prior to joining Baruch College, Professor Sethi held tenured faculty positions at University of California – Berkeley, and University of Texas – Dallas. Over the years, Prof. Sethi has also held visiting professorships at Yale University, Boston University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology and Hult International Business School (UK). Sethi has done pioneering work in creating and implementing international corporate codes of conduct and global supply-chain management. He has published 25 books, over 135 articles in professional and scholarly journals and pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He has done extensive field work monitoring factories and mining operations for sustainable business practices, human rights and environmental protection in developing countries around the world. E-mail: prakash.sethi@baruch.cuny.edu.
David Silver holds the Chair in Business and Professional Ethics, and is Director of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. He holds a joint appointment at the Sauder School of Business. E-mail: david.silver@ubc.ca.
Nico W. Van Yperen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Groningen. His research interests include achievement motivation, stress, leadership, and blended working. For details, see www.rug.nl/staff/n.van.yperen.
Barbara Wisse is professor of Psychology at the University of Groningen and chair of Organizational Psychology. Her research focuses on power, leadership, emotions, justice and organizational change.
