Sonu Bedi of Dartmouth College received the SBE Annual Conference Best Paper Award. His novel paper presented the legal and ethical case to conceive of online services, including online dating services, as a “public accommodation” and therefore an area where online service providers have responsibilities not to facilitate racial discrimination among their users.

— Jeffery Smith

Marco Meyer has written a fascinating dissertation about the right to credit. He argues that just societies should be concerned not only about people’s holdings in income and wealth, but about their access to credit. In many cases, without credit, people cannot undertake projects that are meaningful to them, such as pursue educations, create businesses, and buy houses. Engaging deeply with relevant literatures in politics, philosophy, finance, and economics, Dr. Meyer explains why credit matters, what justice requires with respect to credit, and how institutions must be changed to create a better world.

— Jeffrey Moriarty

This article stood out among the outstanding finalists for the “BEQ Best Paper” award. The authors address a problem of both timely and timeless value to business ethics, how corporate hierarchies can be squared with human dignity. Confucian arguments are woven together with Kantian ideas and Coasian/Williamsonian theorizing, in ways that upend conventional thinking about the relationship between hierarchy and dignity in the workplace. The article is not only theoretically rich with insight, it provides concrete, practical managerial implications. Finally, this article was a pleasure to read – clear, logical, and beautifully written.

 — Jerry Goodstein

This award is an opportunity for us to recognize the crucial yet often unheralded contributions that reviewers make to the success of the journal. In giving the award to Sébastien Mena this year we honor his service to the journal as a consistently excellent reviewer combining high standards with insightful comments and developmental feedback. He is also one who agrees to review frequently and delivers on time.

 — Bruce Barry

Professor Joseph DesJardins, holder of the Ralph Gross Chair in Business and the Liberal Arts at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Service. An individual of great warmth and generosity of spirit, he holds the record for the number of official positions held in the Society for Business Ethics, having served as Executive Director for five years, a member of the Executive Board for five years, Newsletter Editor for six years, and the Society’s first Treasurer. The Society is grateful for his dedication and service.

 — Nien-he Hsieh

Professor Daryl Koehn, holder of the Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics at DePaul University, is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship. A scholar of immense breadth, she has been at the forefront of advancing business ethics scholarship in novel directions, being one of the first members of the Society to engage with Eastern philosophy and now the Maker Movement and 3-D printing. Her work informs and is informed by business practice, and is infused by a deeply humane outlook. The Society is pleased to recognize her contribution to the field.

 — Nien-he Hsieh