Research Agenda
Addresses the intersection of ethics, business and law, and its influence on managerial decision-making, personal moral development and organizational behavior
• Focused on virtue ethics
• Aimed at harnessing intangible phenomena in order to achieve unity and TLC—trust, loyalty and commitment—in organizations
Publications
Book chapters
2009 – “Getting Business Off Steroids,” in Doing Well And Good: The Human Face Of The New Capitalism, Ed. Friedland, J., Information Age Publishing Inc., Ethics in Practice Series, Ch. 1, pp. 3-29
2005 – “Is There a Relationship Between My Success and Significance?” in A Virtue-Based Business Ethics, Eds., Gregg, S. & G. Zandstra, Acton Center for Entrepreneurial Stewardship, Ch. 5, pp. 131-148
2003 – “Family, Human Capital and Economic Sustainability” (Published in German as “Familie, Humankapital und Zukunftsfähigkeit”), in Demography and Welfare: New Priority for the Family in Economy and Society (Published in German as Demographie und Wohlstand. Neuer Stellenwert für Familie in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft), Ed., Leipert, C., Leske + Budrich, Opladen, pp. 223-237
• Paper delivered at the conference entitled Demography and Prosperity: New Priority for the Family in Economy and Society, Berlin, Germany (2002)
• Sponsored by the Circle of Cooperation for Family and Social Policy, International Human Foundation (Koordinationskreis Familien und Gesellschaftspolitik, Internationale Stiftung Humanum)
2001 – “Personal Leadership” (Published in Spanish as “Liderazgo personal”), in Paradigms of Leadership: Keys to the Management of People (Published in Spanish as Paradigmas del Liderazgo: Claves de la Dirección de Personas), McGraw Hill Interamericana de España, Ch. 8, pp. 115-129 (with Maria Nuria Chinchilla)
Books reviews
1991 – Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes, by Laurence Tribe, 1990, Recent Publications, in 14 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 282
Case studies
2002 – “Marshall Bradley at Hoffman Lucas” (A-C), IESE Publishing, TD-147E, 148E, 149E (with Joseph Harder), available with links to cases B & C at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=TD-147
2001 – “Salomon Brothers” (A-D), IESE PUBLISHING, TD-146E, 150E, 151E, 152E (with Christopher Golembiewski), available with links to cases B, C & D at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=TD-146-E
1999 – “Welcome to E.G. Financial,” IESE Publishing, FH-665E, available at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=FH-665-E
1996 – “The Dodge vs. Ford Dividend Controversy,” IESE Publishing, TD-109E, available at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=TD-109-E
1996 – “Storm on Wall Street” (C), IESE Publishing, TD-110E (with Domènec Melé), available at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=TD-110-E
1996 – “John Bak—Postscript” IESE Publishing, DP-117E, available at http://iesep.iese.edu/fichaProducto.aspx?sigla=DP-117-E
Presentations
Colloquia
2008 – “The American Founding and the Western Intellectual Tradition, Two Visions of America: Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton”
• Center for the American Idea and Liberty Fund, Colorado Springs, CO
• Discussion participant
2004 – “Natural Law in the Thought of Samuel Pufendorf: The Man, the State, and Religious Liberty”
• Liberty Fund, Chicago, IL
• Discussion participant
Conferences
2008 – “From Delphi to Delaware: ‘Speak, Oracle, of Human Nature’”
• IESE Business School, 15th International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, Barcelona, Spain
o Business and Management: Towards more human models and practices
2001 – “Character and Decision-Making”
• DePaul University, 8th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Chicago, IL
2001 – “Organizational Behavior in Cyberspace: A Report on IESE Business School’s Inaugural Global Executive MBA Distributed Learning Program”
• IPADE, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Biannual Meeting of Alliance Network Schools, Mexico City, Mexico
o Alliance Network Schools: AESE, Portugal; ESE, Chile; IAE, Argentina; IDE, Ecuador; IEEM, Uruguay; IESE, Spain; INALDE, Columbia; IPADE, Mexico; ISE, Brazil; LBS, Nigeria; PAD, Peru; TAYASAL, Guatemala; UAP, Philippines
1999 – The Capacity to Lead: Classical Wisdom about Virtues for Tomorrow’s Leader”
• IESE Business School, Ethics in Leadership Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain
o Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century
1999 – “A Freedom-Centric Model of Ethical Decision-Making”
• IESE Business School, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Biannual Meeting of Alliance Network Schools, Barcelona, Spain
1996 – “Business Ethics in Theory and Practice”
• University of Porto, National Congress of Economics and Management Students, Porto, Portugal
1994 – “Structural Impediments to the Ethical Formation of Management Students”
• Catholic University of Porto, Business Ethics, Legal Ethics and the Family Conference, Porto, Portugal
Full-Day Seminar
2009 – “Leadership & Optimism against the Odds”
• Lismullin Institute, Leadership Forum, Dublin, Ireland
• Daylong seminar on ethical leadership in crisis
2003 – “Surmounting the Era of Fraud”
• Daylong seminars in Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica on ethical leadership in Finance
o Asociación para la Cooperación Cultural (Association for Cultural Cooperation), Panama City, Panama
o Asociación para la Cooperación Educativa Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan Association for Educational Cooperation), Managua, Nicaragua
o Asociación Arte y Cultura, (Association of Art and Culture), San José, Costa Rica
2001 – “Being More, Doing More and Having More: Developing One’s Capacity for Rational Decision-making”
• European Training Center, Beyond Excellence, Helsinki, Finland
• Daylong seminar on leadership and virtue ethics
1998 – “Ethical Decision-Making, Virtue and Business Organizations”; and “Business Activity as Envisioned in the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church”
• European Training Center, Beyond Excellence: Practical Views on the Ethical Dimension of Business, Helsinki, Finland
• Daylong seminar on virtue ethics in business and society
Quotations
2008 – Ada Herald, October 16, “TARP—From Wall Street to Main Street,” by Shea Stephens
2008 – Law 360, September 25, “6 Steps To Better Market Regulation,” by Evan Weinberger
2005 – CFA Magazine, SEPT-OCT, “Friend or Foe?: Investors need to be aware of conflicts of interest posed by performance fees,” by Lori Pizzani
2005 – Baltimore Sun, March 8, “Affairs Are Bad Business—Ethics: Romance Between Workers Can Be Detrimental, Especially When the Boss is Involved,” by Blanca Torres
2004 – Agence France Presse, March 26, “24-Year Prison Term for Executive in Fraud Sends Tough Message,” by Rob Lever
Research Seminars
2007 – “Everyone Does It”
• Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law, Faculty Research Seminar, Ada, OH
2005 – “Legal Ethics: Stone Age Morality In, Caveman Behavior Out”
• Regent University School of Law, Virginia Beach, VA
2002 – “Qualitative and Ethical Decision-making: A Positive, Non-positivist Model”
• University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Administration, The Rationality Seminar, Charlottesville, VA
1998 – “Catholic Attitudes towards Business and the Market Economy as Expressed in the Social Doctrine of the Church”
• Princeton University, Western Economic Values and Alternatives Seminar, Department of History, Princeton, NJ
Workshops
2009 – “Philosophical Anthropology in Law”
• Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop, Idea presentation, The Ohio State University—Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH