Key Faculty & Staff

Professor Patricia Werhane-Executive Director

Patricia H. Werhane is the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University with a joint appointment as the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden School at the University of Virginia.  She was formerly the Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago.  Professor Werhane graduated from Wellesley College, and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth, Arthur Andersen Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).  Professor Werhane has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of over twenty books including Ethical Issues in Business (with T. Donaldson, eighth edition), Persons, Rights and Corporations, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, Organization Ethics for Health Care, and Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making with Oxford University Press, and Employment and Employee Rights (with Tara J. Radin and Norman Bowie) with Blackwell’s. She has written numerous cases in business ethics. She is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. Professor Werhane is currently a member of the academic advisory team for the Business Roundtable Ethics Institute housed at the University of Virginia. Her current research projects focus on feminism in business and poverty reduction through for-profit initiatives. To download Professor Werhane's C.V., please click here.

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Professor Laura Hartman-Director of Research

Laura Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in the Management Department at DePaul University’s College of Commerce, where she has received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the college’s Outstanding Service Award and numerous university competitive research grants.  She also serves as Research Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.  She only recently returned to the faculty, after serving for a number of years as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.  In that capacity, she was responsible for, among other programs, the administration and adjudication of the Academic Integrity Policy across the entire university (24,000+ students).  Currently, she is serving on the Projects Committee of the global Vincentian Family, helping to design a micro-development, finance and education system for the poor of Haiti. 

She has served as the Gourlay Professor at the Melbourne Business School/Trinity College at the University of Melbourne (2007-2008), and as an invited professor a number of other universities, worldwide, including INSEAD and HEC (France).  Hartman is a recognized expert in the field of business ethics on issues related to corporate governance, responsibility and culture, the employment relationship, global labor conditions and standards, the impact of technology on employment relationships, and the alleviation of global poverty through profitable corporate partnerships.  Hartman has published over 80 books, cases and articles in Business Ethics Quarterly and Business Ethics: A European Review, among other journals; and her (authored or co-authored) include Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships: Globalization, Markets & Economic Well-Being, Effective & Ethical Practices in Global Corporations, and Employment Law for Business 1E – 6E.

In her role as a consultant, Prof. Hartman has engaged in ethics training workshops and presentations for a number of local and global companies and professional associations at the employee, executive and board levels.  Hartman’s professional experience spans over 20 years as it relates to legal and corporate risk management, vulnerability assessment, and business ethics.  Given the current economic conditions, her expertise is vital and timely in advising corporate executives and the professional community on actions necessary to enhance ethical leadership, to mitigate corporate risks (legal, fraud, financial), to implement a sustainable corporate governance framework, to provide appropriate and effective business ethics training to employees (to meet mandatory legal requirements and to moderate key risks), and to generate morale under exigent circumstances.  Prof. Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She lives in Chicago with her two daughters, Emma and Rachel.

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Professor Mollie Painter-Morland-Assistant Director

Mollie PAINTER MORLAND (Ph.D) is a professor and consultant currently based in Chicago, and residing in South Africa for four months every year. She teaches Business Ethics at tertiary institutions in the USA (DePaul University), France (IAE) and South Africa (University of Pretoria). She is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University and Associate Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. In 2006, she was awarded an International Ethics Award by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) for her contributions to the ethics profession internationally. She serves on the SCCE’s Advisory Board, the Ethics Oversight Board of PwC South Africa, and on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Business Ethics and Economics (ISBEE). In her career as consultant, Mollie has assisted corporations in conducting ethics audits or assessments, developing ethics management programs, and compiling integrated sustainability reports, i.e. triple bottom-line reports. She is especially skilled in assisting multinational corporations who want to develop international codes of conduct or deal with the impact of cultural differences on ethics in their organization.

In her research, Mollie has focused on understanding the emergence of a certain ethos in various organizational contexts. In 2008 she published “Business Ethics as Practice: Ethics as the Everyday Business of Business” (Cambridge University Press), in which she argues that we should replace ethics programs in organizations with an interactive process aimed at facilitating the emergence of an ethical corporate ethos. Her second text, “Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Theory and Practice” (Springer), co-edited with Patricia Werhane, is one of the first of its kind, as it indicates what Continental philosophy can contribute to the field of Business Ethics. She is also co-editor of Springer’s “Issues in Business Ethics” series and serves as reviewer for multiple ethics journals. At the moment she is working on a textbook on “Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy” (with co-editor René ten Bos), a volume on “Leadership, Gender and Organization” (with co-editor Patricia Werhane), an anthology and a Special Edition of African Journal of Business Ethics on “Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” (with co-editor Laura Spence) and a Special Edition of Philosophy Today on “Continental Philosophy and Organization”.

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 Summer Brown

 Summer Brown coordinates projects for the Institute.

Nathan Shepard

Nathan Shepard is a part time assistant researcher for the Institute.

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The Institute is also pleased to have a distinguished Board of Directors with members from Chicago corporations and institutions.