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The University of Chicago Law School,
Class of 1988
Awarded Doctor of Law, 1988; Hinton Moot Court
Competition Semi-Finalist
Tufts University, Class of 1985
Graduated
magna cum laude; B.S. Social Psychology; Member Psi
Chi, Psychology Honor Society; Dean's List
Professor, Business Ethics and Legal Studies, Department
of Management, College
of Commerce, (2000 to present) [promoted from Associate Professor
(1999), promoted from Assistant Professor 1996)]
Acting Vice-President, Life Long Learning and Suburban Campuses (2003)
Associate
Vice-President, Academic Affairs (2001 - present, Assistant
Vice President, 2000-2001). Primary Responsibility: University Academic Integrity Officer.
Additional responsibilities
have included coordinating the development of new academic programs, conducting
market and demand analyses for proposed programs, serving as liaison for NATO
and UNESCO grants relationships, and helping to coordinate strategic planning
processes, among other duties.
Wicklander
Chair in Professional Ethics (1997-1998)
Director, Institute for Business &
Professional Ethics (1994-1998)
Research Director, Institute
for Business & Professional Ethics (2005 - present)
University
Representative, Workers’ Rights Consortium (2000 –
2005)
Member, Board
of Directors, Institute
for Business & Professional Ethics
(2000 - present)
Representative, AACSB Ethics
Education Task Force (2003-2004)
Recipient, University Excellence in Teaching Award (1991)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, August, 1998 – July, 2000
Grainger
Chair of Professional Ethics
Associate Professor of Business Ethics
Program Director, UW Management Institute Executive Education Program
Responsible for Ethics Program in the
School of Business, Graduate MBA, Executive MBA and Evening MBA Business Ethics
courses. Courses included: Business Ethics, Human
Resource Management, Employment
Law, the Legal
Environment of Business, Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, Government
Regulation of Business, Great Ideas in Business & Society
Visiting or Other Faculty Positions
Held
Melbourne
Business School & Trinity
College, University of Melbourne (2007
to 08)
Gourlay
Professor of Ethics in Business
INSEAD Business School,
Visiting Professor of Economics and
Political Science (Business Ethics)
HEC School of Management, Jouy en
Visiting Professor, Business Ethics
Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, (2006)
Institut
d’Administration des Enterprises, Graduate School of Management,
Invited Professor of Business
Ethics
Toulouse Business
School, Groupe ESC-Toulouse,
Visiting Professor of Business
Ethics, Management & Sustainable Development Program
Grenoble Graduate School of
Business, ESC-Grenoble,
Visiting Professor of Business Ethics in
MBA and MIB programs
Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College,
Research
Fellow
Bentley College,
Ethics
Resource Center,
Senior Fellow, Elected to participate in small group of ethics officers, scholars
and corporate leaders to address the future of organizations and of business
ethics.
Taylor Institute Policy Research Center, Chicago,
IL 1998
Member,
Working Group, charge is to assess severity and extent of employment
"sweatshops" in Chicago Metropolitan area and to develop policy
recommendations for advocacy groups in this regard.
Northwestern University,
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Winter
Quarter, 1992, 1993, 1994
Visiting Professor of Business Law, Department
of Management and Strategy
Responsible for teaching Government Regulation of
Business
Faculty Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching (1992)
·
S. Kelley, P. Werhane, L. Hartman, “Business, Profit, Partnership
and the Global Common Good,” in Frontiers
of Business Ethics (H.C. de Bettignies, ed.)
(
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L. Hartman, “Unresolved
Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry,” in The Ethics of Genetic Commerce (R. Kolb, ed.) (
·
L. Hartman, J. DesJardins, Business
Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility (
·
S. Kelley, P. Werhane, L. Hartman, “The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable
Alleviation of Poverty in A Globalized Economy,” in Alleviating
Poverty through Business Strategy (C. Wankel, ed.) (
·
D. Bennett-Alexander, L. Harrison, L. Hartman, The Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Environment of
Business in a Diverse Society
(
· L. Hartman, D.
Bennett-Alexander, L. Harrison, Business Law: Legal and Ethical Implications of Business Decision-Making
(
·
L. Hartman,
D. Arnold, « Les Multinationales et L’Avenir des Sweatshops » (“Multinational
Corporations and the Future of Sweatshops”), in RSE: Une mise à jour du contrat social de l’entreprise? (“CSR : An Update of the Corporate Social
Contract ?”) (Jean-Jacques Rose, Ed.) (2005)
· Kolb, R., The
Encyclopedia of Business, Ethics, and Society (L. Hartman, Associate
Editor) (Sage Publishing, forthcoming).
In addition to editorial position, drafted entries on Sweatshops and Privacy.
· Hartman, L., “Technology and Ethics:
Privacy in the Workplace,” published in Contemporary
Issues in Business Ethics: The Wicklander Lectures (Keith W. Krasemann,
Patricia H. Werhane, eds.) (University Press, forthcoming).
· D.D. Bennett-Alexander, L.
Pincus, Employment
Law for Business 1E, 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E (Irwin Publishing Co.: Homewood, IL)
(1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007)
· L. Hartman, Perspectives in
Business Ethics, 1E, 2E, 3E (Irwin/McGraw-Hill:
Homewood, IL 1998, 2001, 2004)
·
L.P. Hartman, et
al., Rising
Above Sweatshops: Innovative Management
Approaches to Global Labor Challenges (
· L. P. Hartman, “Adidas-Salomon: Application
of Standards of Engagement to Child Labor Dilemma,” case study included in T.
Beauchamp, N. Bowie, Ethical Theory and Business, 7E (
· L. P. Hartman, R. Wokutch, “Nike, Inc.: Corporate Social Responsibility and Workplace
Standard Initiatives in Vietnam,” in Laura P. Hartman, Denis G. Arnold, and
Richard Wokutch, eds, Rising Above
Sweatshops: Innovative Management
Approaches to Global Labor Practices (New York, NY: Praeger
Books, 2003). [Complete chapter in above edited text.]
· L. P. Hartman, R. Wokutch, J. L.
French, “Adidas-Salomon: Child Labor and Health
and Safety Initiatives in Vietnam and Brazil,” in Laura P. Hartman, Denis G.
Arnold, and Richard Wolkutch, eds,
Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative
Management Approaches to Global Labor Practices (New York, NY: Praeger Books, 2003). [Complete
chapter in above edited text.]
Ethics & Employment-Related
Articles:
- Reprinted in Business Ethics: Annual
Editions 17E (J.E. Richardson, ed.) (Dubuque,
IA: McGraw-Hill 2005)
Communications and Consulting-Related Articles:
Other Articles:
Published Proceedings
·
Series Co-Editor, Issues in International Business Ethics
(Kluwer/Springer Publishing), ISSN: 0925-6733
·
Editorial Board, Business
Ethics Quarterly
·
Editorial Board, Journal of Employment Discrimination (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
·
Editorial Board, Business & Society Review (Blackwell
Publishers)
·
Editorial Board, Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations
(JAI Press)
·
Editorial Board, Teaching Business Ethics (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
·
Reviewer, Online Journal of Ethics (University of
Houston)
·
Co-Editor, Promoting Business Ethics, special issue
of Journal of Business Ethics, v. 23,
no. 1 (Jan. 2000)
·
Co-Editor, Promoting Business Ethics, special issue
of Journal of Business Ethics, v. 19,
no. 1 (Mar. 1999)
·
Co-Editor, Promoting Business Ethics, special issue
of Journal of Business Ethics, v. 17,
no. 15 (Nov. 1998)
·
Co-Editor, From the Universities to the Marketplace:
The Business Ethics Journey, a collection of articles from the Second
Annual International Vincentian Conference Promoting Business Ethics (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
·
Editor-in-Chief, Online Journal of Ethics, 1995-1996 (First peer-reviewed ethics journal to be
delivered completely via internet technology)
·
Special
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Legal Studies
Education, special issue on business ethics pedagogy (Vol. 14, no. 2, 1997)
·
Guest Editor, Journal of Business Ethics, v. 16, nos.
3, 12, & 13 (1997) [special issues based on Vincentian Ethics conference]
·
Staff Editor, Journal of Legal Studies Education
(1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
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Editorial Reviewer,
American Business Law Review (1995,
1996, 1997)
·
Editorial Reviewer,
Midwest Law Review (1994, 1995, 1996,
1997)
·
Reviewer, Society
for Business Ethics, Annual Meeting (1997, 1998, 1999),
·
Editor, Employment & Labor Law Quarterly (formerly: Employment & Labor Law Section
Newsletter), 1994 (Associate Editor, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
·
Editor, Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of The
Midwest
·
“Setting
your sails, how ethical leadership can most effectively impact corporate
culture,” Deacons Dialogue,
·
“Taking the
‘R’ out of CSR: How to replace responsibility with strategy,”
Futureye Members Circle (November 12, 2008).
·
“Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability
Education in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Business Schools:
Baseline Data and Future Research Directions,” MBARoundtable,
·
“The Unfortunate Emotional Lightness of Cases,” The
Vincentian Business Ethics conference,
·
“Teaching Business Ethics: Assessing What We
Say We’re Going to Do,” AACSB Ethics and Governance Conference,
·
“Teaching
Business Ethics Seminar,” AACSB,
·
“Teaching
Business Ethics Seminar,” AACSB,
·
“The
Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility: United States and European
Union Multinational Corporations,” European Business Ethics Network
Annual Congress,
o
Research reported
in Ethical Performance, 8(7), 12
(2006)
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“Exploring the
Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines as a model for triple bottom-line
reporting,” IESE Business School Ethics Conference, “Toward a
Comprehensive Integration of Ethics into Management,” Barcelona, Spain
(May, 2006) (with M. Painter-Morland) – Selected for parallel sessions for “outstanding research
papers.”
·
“Evaluating the
success of the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines as a model for triple bottom-line
reporting,” Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HA (August,
2005) (with M. Painter-Morland)
·
“Challenges in Ethics Pedagogy,” Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting,
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“Sweatshops in Chicago,” DePaul
University, Chicago, IL (February, 2005), sponsored by the Interfaith Center on
Faith and Justice, the Institute for Business & Professional Ethics, and
the Steans Center
·
Invited presentation: “What’s wrong with
pro-sweatshop arguments?” Tenth Annual Conference on Business Ethics,
·
Panel presentation and moderator, “Challenges
in Ethics Pedagogy: The Second Annual Practical Symposium,” Annual Meeting,
Society for Business Ethics, New Orleans, LA (August, 2004)
·
“Beyond Sweatshops: Positive Deviancy and
Global Labor Practices,” Annual Meeting, Society for Business Ethics, New
Orleans, LA (August, 2004) (with D. Arnold) (Awarded Best Paper, Society for
Business Ethics)
·
Invited presentation: “What’s wrong with
pro-sweatshop arguments?” ICCA International Conference on Voluntary Codes of
Conduct for Multinational Corporations, New York, NY (May 14, 2004) (with D.
Arnold)
·
Invited Keynote: “How to ensure good
ethics to avoid bad business: The critical role of the credit unions’
supervisory committee,” Las Vegas, NV (April 30, 2004)
·
Invited Keynote: “Building an Ethical
Corporate Culture,” University of Texas System Compliance Officers Conference, Austin, TX (April 20, 2004)
·
Invited Keynote: “Ethics in World Class
Audit Departments,” MIS Training Institute SuperStrategies
Conference, Chicago, IL (April 15, 2004)
·
Invited Workshop: “Ethics 101: Teaching
Ethics,” Indiana University – South Bend, South Bend, IN (March 12, 2004)
·
Invited Keynote: “Integrating Ethics into
Compliance Systems,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Annual Meeting on
Ethics and Compliance, San Francisco, CA (March 4, 2004)
·
Invited Speaker: “Why good people don’t
always make good decisions: Ethical Decision Making in our Personal and
Professional Lives,” The Chicago Network, Chicago, IL (January 15, 2004).
·
Invited Speaker: “Ethics and Boards of
Directors,” Sinai Healthcare Systems, Chicago, IL (Jan. 7, 2004)
·
Invited Keynote Speaker: “How to ensure
good ethics to avoid bad business: the critical role of internal audit,” MIS Training
Institute, Strategic Summit on Auditing and Governance, New York City, NY
(December, 2003).
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"Beyond Sweatshops: Positive
Deviancy and Global Labor Practices," Academy of Management Annual
Meeting, Seattle, WA (August, 2003)
·
Invited Participant: “Ethical Challenges
for E-Commerce and Ethics Consulting in the Global Environment: A Collaborative, Stakeholder Conference,”
Seattle University, Seattle, WA (forthcoming 2003 (date tbd))
·
Invited Keynote Speaker: “Ethics and Integrity
at PricewaterhouseCoopers,” annual meeting (June 4-6, 2003).
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Invited Speaker: “Moral Imagination and
the Future of Sweatshops,” Conference on Moral
Imagination,