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Laura Hartman earned her B.S. in social psychology at Tufts University and her J.D. at the University of Chicago. She is the director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy and clinical professor of business ethics in the Department of Organizational Behavior. She also serves as associate professor at the Kedge Business School in Marseille, France. She has been executive director and board chair of an elementary school in Haiti that provides leadership education to children living in poverty. A winner of the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions, Professor Hartman also was named one of one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. In addition, she continues to serve as an advisor to a number of startup companies.
Joe DesJardins is Professor in the philosophy department formed jointly by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota. He presently serves as the Executive Director of the Society for Business Ethics. Among his publications are: An Introduction to Business Ethics (McGraw-Hill), Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth), Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, co-editor, with John McCall, (Wadsworth) , and the forthcoming Business, Ethics, and Sustainability: Ethics for the Next Industrial Revolution (Prentice Hall). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and taught for many years at Villanova University before moving to Minnesota.
Chris MacDonald of Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada, is an associate professor and director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre and teaches in the Rogers School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics. His peer-reviewed publications range across business ethics, professional ethics, bioethics, the ethics of technology, and moral philosophy, and he is coauthor of the best-selling textbook, The Power of Critical Thinking. He is cofounder and coeditor of the Business Ethics Journal Review and the news and commentary aggregator site Business Ethics Highlights. He is perhaps best known for his highly respected blog, The Business Ethics Blog.