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 […]
Prof. Dr. Andreas Georg Scherer Named Doctor honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) of the University of Hamburg (Germany) Prof. Dr. Andreas Georg Scherer, Chair of Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm of the University of Zurich (Switzerland), has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of […]
Georgetown University Practitioner Fellow, Dr. Dawn Carpenter, Launches Business Ethics Podcast Stay tuned: January 20, 2021 marks the launch of Season 2 of the What Does It Profit Podcast. This 30-minute business ethics podcast explores the moral and social value of business. Season One featured the Father of Sustainability and Dean of CSR, John Elkington, […]
Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights by Georges Enderle Cambridge University Press, January 2021 Download the discount flyer for 20% off your purchase. 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 […]
The Board of Directors of the Society for Business Ethics is pleased to announce that the new co-Editors in Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly will be Professors Mollie Painter and Frank den Hond, beginning in August 2021. Professors den Hond and Painter will be succeeding Professor Bruce Barry, whose five-year term as Editor in Chief […]
