Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility, 6th Edition

About the Author

Laura Hartman

Laura Pincus Hartman is Executive Director of the School of Choice Education Organization, a U.S.–based nonprofit that she cofounded, which oversees the School of Choice/L’Ecole de Choix, a unique leadership development education program in Haiti that serves children and families living in extreme conditions of poverty. 

Hartman also is professor emerita at DePaul University. She held a number of roles during her almost three-decade career there, including Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, and Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. From 2015 to 2017, Hartman also served as the inaugural Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy at Boston University and Clinical Professor of Business Ethics in BU’s Department of Organizational Behavior. She has been privileged to serve as an Associated Professor at the Kedge Business School (Marseille, France) and has taught as a visiting professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, the University of Toulouse, and the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, and served as the Gourley Professor of Ethics at the Melbourne Business School. 

Hartman is past president of the Society for Business Ethics and established its Professional Mentorship Program. She is the coauthor of Employment Law for Business (McGraw-Hill). Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She divides her time between Haiti and Sint Maarten, and has been a mother to two daughters.

Joseph DesJardins

Joseph DesJardins is professor emeritus at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota where he held the Ralph Gross Chair in Business and the Liberal Arts. His other books include An Introduction to Business Ethics; Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy; Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy & Theory; Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (coeditor with John McCall); and Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future. He has served as president and executive director of the Society for Business Ethics and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of business ethics, environmental ethics, and sustainability. He received his BA from Southern Connecticut State University and his MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

Chris MacDonald

Chris MacDonald is an associate professor and director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, Canada, and a senior nonresident 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 a best-selling textbook called The Power of Critical Thinking (5th Canadian Edition, 2019). He is cofounder and coeditor of the Business Ethics Journal Review and co-author of the online Encyclopedia of Business Ethics. He is perhaps best known for his highly respected blog, The Business Ethics Blog, which he has written since 2006.