Ignacio Ferrero, Ron Beadle and Marta Rocchi have been awarded third place in the 4th Edition of the Business Ethics Research Prize organized and sponsored by Bankinter Consumer Finance and the Business Ethics Chair at ICADE Business School (Spain). The prize was awarded for their article, “Can Finance Be a Virtuous Practice? A MacIntyrean Account” published in Business Ethics […]
When a for-profit enterprise asserts a right to religious freedom, how should we think about the morality of such a claim? One approach views the enterprise as a “corporate moral person” and then extends strong freedoms to it based upon perceived responsibilities toward moral personhood. Another approach moves in an opposite direction, viewing the enterprise […]
Professor Nien-hê Hsieh of Harvard Business School will be serving as the Acting Director of Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics for the 2021-2022 academic year. Learn more about Professor Hsieh here: https://ethics.harvard.edu/people/nien-hվ-hsieh
Download the full details here > Georges Enderle proposes a radically new understanding of corporate responsibility in the global and pluralistic context. This book introduces a framework that integrates the ideas of wealth creation and human rights, which is illustrated by multiple corporate examples, and provides a sharp critique of the maximizing shareholder value ideology. […]
Denis Collins passed away, at home in Madison and surrounded by family, on February 25. Denis was a longtime member of SBE, Professor Emeritus at Edgewood College School of Business and Visiting Professor at UW-Madison, and the donor of the newly-announced SBE Best Practical Solutions Award. He was a widely-appreciated member of the community of […]
“What would you do if your boss asked you to fudge the numbers in a report?” “What would you do if a colleague revealed they were lying to customers about product?” “What would you do if asked whether your company should install new, expensive pollution-abatement technology?” These sorts of questions are common in ethics and […]
Preethi Misha, Society for Business Ethics member and Emerging Scholar and Founders’ award recipient (2018) successfully defended her PhD on November 20, 2020 at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. Dr. Misha’s PhD explored how unethical leadership trickles down from the top to the lower levels of the hierarchy. The dissertation consisted of two studies. The first […]
Congratulations to our newest member of the board of directors, Tae Wan Kim, associate professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Tae Wan joined the Society in 2007, during his PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He was one of our Emerging Scholars in 2010, and has presented his work at our annual meetings every year […]
“ROTTEN: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues and What to Do About It” by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson Published January 2021 Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson, Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues and What to Do About It, Lanark Press, Los Altos, CA, 2021. Rotten is an “insiders’ account” of failed efforts […]
Springer Nature and the Editors-in-Chief of the journal are delighted to announce that Gazi Islam has been appointed as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Ethics effective 1 January 2021. He replaces Ed Freeman who is stepping down at the end of 2020 after a five-year tenure and joins incumbent Co-editor-in-Chief Michelle Greenwood. Gazi is Professor […]
