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Andy Gustafson

Andy is Professor of Business Ethics and Society at Creighton University, where he has taught business ethics since 2005. Andy first got involved in the SBE while in graduate school at Marquette University. At Creighton he teaches undergrad and graduate courses mostly in business ethics, along with a Business, Faith and Common Good course, and travel courses to Las Vegas and South China. His published articles can be found in a wide variety of business ethics, philosophy, and ethics journals and handbooks. He is also founder and director of Creighton’s Business, Faith and Common Good Institute which brings many speakers to campus and hosts on a fall symposium each year.

Andy has been working out a utilitarian approach to business ethics, as well as considering the overlap between greatest happiness (Utilitarianism) and common good (Catholic Social Thought) perspectives. Recently he has been writing about utilitarianism as a humanistic approach to business ethics, Frank Knight’s view of entrepreneurship, and on the historical impact of utilitarianism on law in the U.S., as well as championing and explicating how the Economy of Communion movement in particular provides a valuable humanistic approach to business values and practices. His wife Celeste Harvey is also a philosopher. He is very grateful for the opportunity to serve the SBE for the 2022-2027 term.