Gourlay Ethics In Business Week 2022

Andrew Crane is a Professor of Business and Society and Director, Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) at University of Bath, School of Management in the UK. He is a multi-award winning author and teacher, as well as a popular speaker and media commentator.

For the past 25 years, he has been examining the changing roles and responsibilities of the corporation in the global economy. He specialises in issues of corporate social responsibility and business ethics, with a particular focus on modern slavery, the political role of business, cross-sector partnerships, and communication.

He is a member of the Transparency in Supply Chains Advisory Group at the Home Office for the UK Government and a founding member of the Data Strategy Board for TISC (an open data platform committed to ending corruption, supply chain labour abuses and modern slavery.

Professor Crane’s areas of interest are:

• business and modern slavery – and business and human rights more generally
• the political role and influence of business – including CEO activism.

Professor Dirk Matten is a Professor at the Schulich School of Business, where he holds the Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is the Associate Dean of Research. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business.

He has taught and conducted research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA.

He has published 29 books and edited volumes as well as more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, which have won numerous prestigious awards. In August 2018, his paper with Jeremy Moon on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR’ (2008) received the highly prestigious Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award. In the same year he was also ranked #44 in the ‘Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders’ ranking (next to CEOs and CSR leaders of Unilever, Google and Apple. He was the only academic scholar on the list). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from his school as well as the York Research Leader Award.

Professor Matten’s areas of interest are:

• ethical challenges for digital business
• opportunities and challenges of civic participation of business leaders
• business models from the global south and the public good.

Robert Phillips is George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Sustainability at the York University’s Schulich School of Business in Canada. Prior to Schulich he held positions at the University of Richmond, University of San Diego, The Wharton School, and Georgetown University.

His work has appeared in Business Ethics Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review among others. He is the author of Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics (2003).

He has served as Consulting Editor at Journal of Business Ethics and Associate Editor at Business & Society. He has held leadership positions in the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the International Association for Business and Society and is past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business at Schulich.

Professor Phillips areas of interest are:

• associational responsibilities – when, why, and to what extent are actors (companies) responsible for the actions of others with whom we do business
• historic corporate responsibility – to what extent are contemporary companies and managers responsible for the actions and practices of prior iterations of the company?

Jeremy Moon is Professor of Sustainability Governance and Director of Copenhagen Business School Sustainability Centre, Department of Management, Society and Communication. He was the founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. Within the study of corporations, he draws on his background in political science in order to investigate the relationship between business and governance.

He has taught at the University of North London, the University of Western Australia, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Keele, and the Copenhagen Business School, where he was the Velux Professor of Corporate Sustainability.

In 2005, Moon was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Aspen Institute.

He authored A Very Short Introduction to CSR Oxford University Press (2014).

In 2018, his 2008 paper (with Dirk Matten) on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR’ received the highly prestigious Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award.

Professor Moon’s areas of interest are:

• The suitability of corporations as governance actors
• How governments relate to corporations?
• How civil society relates to corporations?
• How corporations understand themselves?

Professor Ciulla is currently both a professor and the director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School. Prior to joining Rutgers, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond), where she was one of the founding faculty of the school, which is the first degree granting liberal arts school of leadership studies in the world.

Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University, and numerous visiting appointments outside of the U.S., including the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan.

Ciulla sits on the editorial boards of The Business Ethics Quarterly, The Leadership Quarterly, and Leadership and she edits the New Horizons in Leadership Studies Series (Edward Elgar), which is one of the largest collections of books from the humanities and the social sciences on leadership. Ciulla has served as former president of The Society for Business Ethics and The International Society for Business, Ethics, and Economics.

Professor Ciulla’s areas of interest are:

• the ethics of artificial intelligence in the workplace
• ethical and effective leadership
• meaning in the new age of work.

R. Edward Freeman is University Professor, Olsson Professor, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award-winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. His latest books are The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-offs, with Bidhan Parmar and Kirsten Martin; The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory with Jeffrey Harrison, Jay Barney and Robert Phillips; Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility with Patricia Werhane and Sergiy Dmytriyev, and Bridging the Values Gap with Ellen Auster; Barrett Koehler in 2015. He has received six honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from: Radboud University in the Netherlands; Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain; the Hanken School of Economics, and Tampere University in Finland; Sherbrooke University in Canada; and, Leuphana University in Germany, for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. Freeman served as Co-Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Ethics, one of the leading journals in business ethics, from 2016-2020. He is the host of The Stakeholder Podcast, sponsored by Stakeholder Media, LLC.

Professor Freeman’s areas of interest are:

• changing the underlying narrative of business to stakeholder capitalism
• stakeholder capitalism
• taking on societal issues like inequality, racism, gender discrimination, and connecting them to the business models
• having better conversations about ethics inside organisations
• encouraging people to push back and speak up.

*Ed will be participating in online presentations only.

Professor Laura Hartman is a seasoned and respected non-profit director, with a specialised knowledge in the intersection of human rights, law and business ethics.

Hartman has demonstrated a deep passion for issues involving social justice, and is recognised as a thought leader, illustrated by her publication of more than 90 journal articles, books and cases on issues involving cross-sector (for-profit/non-profit) partnerships toward global poverty alleviation, business ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, social justice, employment law, discrimination and equity.

Hartman served as Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University, among other roles there, for almost 30 years while, at the same time, co-founding three successful global social impact ventures, including the charitable arm of the world’s largest social game developer (Zynga.org), an online non-profit microfinance initiative (Zafen.org), and a leadership developmentbased school in Haiti (the School of Choice / l’Ecole de Choix), where she is currently the Executive Director. Winner of the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions (2015), named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business (2014), as well as to its ‘League of Extraordinary Women’ and one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (2014), Hartman has served as an advisor to a number of start-ups and has consulted with multinational for-profits, non-profits and educational institutions.

*Laura will be participating in online presentations only.

Dr. Mette Morsing is Head of PRME Principles of Responsible Management, UN Global Compact in New York. PRME is the UN’s largest initiative on responsible management education with 800+ business school signatories. Morsing has, since 2020, led the initiative which focuses on leadership education.

Morsing is an author, researcher and speaker at global academic and business conferences relating to responsible management, responsible management education and sustainable development. She was a Professor, Chair and Executive Director of Sustainable Markets at Stockholm School of Economics and Professor and Founding Executive Director of CBS Center for CSR at Copenhagen Business School.

She has served on numerous boards, committees and councils and her research has won several awards. Her area of research expertise is organization theory and corporate sustainability, with a focus on communication, identity, stigma and cross-sector partnerships.

She is a member of the Advisory Board of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Research for Responsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM), and Boards Impact Forum, and the co-editor of the textbook ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ by Cambridge University Press (2017).

Dr. Morsing’s areas of interest include:

• Responsible management education – the responsibility on business schools to education leaders that business and society needs to address the global challenges
• Cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development, how industries (can) band together with governments, civil society agents and academia to address issues of climate change, inequality and human rights.