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Grant Recipients for the 2024 Society for Business Ethics Conference

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Grant Recipients for the 2024 Society for Business Ethics Conference

The Society for Business Ethics and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee have awarded financial assistance grants to two individuals, Josephine Ganu and Kemi Ogunyemi. The goal of this program is to promote access to SBE’s annual 2024 conference and is made possible through generous support from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and the University of St. Thomas Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership. Learn more about the financial assistance program here.

Kemi Ogunyemi, Professor of Business Ethics, holds a degree in Law from the University of Ibadan, an LLM from the University of Strathclyde and MBA and PhD degrees from Pan-Atlantic University. She currently teaches business ethics, managerial anthropology, self-leadership and sustainability management at Lagos Business School. 

Her consulting and research interests include personal ethos, work–life ethic, social responsibility, sustainability, governance and anti-corruption effort. She has authored numerous publications and is the editor of the 3-volume resource for faculty in tertiary institutions – ‘Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum’ as well as of ‘African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management’; ‘Humanistic Perspectives in Hospitality and Tourism’; ‘Responsible Management in Africa’; ‘Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes’; ‘Products for Conscious Consumers: Developing, Marketing and Selling Ethical Products’ and ‘Management and Leadership for a Sustainable Africa’. She also wrote the book ‘Responsible Management: Understanding Human Nature, Ethics, and Sustainability’.

 

Josephine Ganu is an Associate Professor of Management and the Director of Research and Grants at the Adventist University of Africa, Kenya. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching and research. Josephine teaches business ethics, strategy, organizational behavior, and other management courses at the School of Postgraduate Studies, and her passion includes opportunities to connect with other like-minded professors and researchers. She has authored multiple articles and her research interests include corporate social responsibility, research ethics, organizational behavior, followership, and workplace spirituality.