The Olsson Center - People

Andrew C. Wicks
Olsson Center Director Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration and is director of the doctoral program at Darden. Wicks joined the Darden faculty in 2002 after spending the previous 10 years teaching business ethics at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He has written widely on stakeholder theory, trust, accounting ethics and managed care. His articles have appeared in a range of top journals in business ethics, management and the humanities.

R. Edward Freeman
R. Edward Freeman, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, University Professor and senior fellow of the Olsson Center, is an internationally recognized authority on stakeholder management. Freeman has received numerous awards in recognition of outstanding teaching at Wharton, Minnesota and Darden. He is a past president of the Society for Business Ethics. His massive open online course, “New Models of Business in Society,” was taken by tens of thousands of people around the globe.

Jared Harris
Associate Professor of Business Administration Jared Harris is a senior fellow of the Olsson Center. He teaches both ethics and strategy courses in Darden’s MBA program and a doctoral seminar on corporate governance and ethics. His research centers on the interplay between ethics and strategy, with a particular focus on the topics of corporate governance, business ethics and trust.

Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration Alexander B. Horniman, a senior fellow of the Olsson Center, teaches in the area of strategy, leadership and change with additional interests in managerial psychology, diversity and applied ethics. He served as the first director of the Olsson Center and continues to give ethics seminars in public, corporate and association groups.

Bidhan L. Parmar 
Bidhan Parmar is an assistant professor of business administration and a senior fellow of the Olsson Center. His research interests focus on how managers make decisions and collaborate in uncertain and changing environments to create value for stakeholders. His recent research examines the impact of authority on moral decision-making in organizations. Parmar’s work has been published in Organization Science and the Journal of Business Ethics among others.

Collaborations With Other Faculty at the University of Virginia

The Olsson Center collaborates with a multidisciplinary group of senior faculty in a university-wide working group on ethics. The center works with Institute for Practical Ethics Director James Childress, the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and professor of medical education.

In addition, the center's faculty has worked with colleagues in the following UVA schools, departments and centers:

• Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
• Corcoran Department of Philosophy
• Department of Religious Studies
• Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
• McIntire School of Commerce
• School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• School of Law
• Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics

Olsson Center Senior Fellows are committed to the ongoing challenge of integrating ethical thinking into business decision-making. Each one of these fellows serve as a critical resource in the field of business ethics for executives, scholars, students and the general public. Through their research and teaching, they contribute to the advancement of business ethics in academia and in practice.

Shawn Berman
Associate Dean & Associate Professor of Management, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico

Norman E. Bowie
Professor Emeritus, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

George G. Brenkert
Professor of Business Ethics, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Brad Brown
Associate Professor of Commerce, Management, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Jane Collier
Director of MPhil Programme, Senior Research Associate, Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics and Management Studies, Cambridge University

Thomas J. Donaldson
Mark O. Winkelman Professor, Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics and Director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Ronald F. Duska
Adjunct Professor in the graduate business schools of St. Joseph’s and Villanova Universities

R. Edward Freeman
University Professor and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Academic Director, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics; Academic Director, Institute for Business in Society

Jared D. Harris
Samuel L. Slover Research Chair in Business Administration and Associate Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Edwin M. Hartman
Peter Schoenfeld Visiting Faculty Fellow, Stern School of Business, New York University Academic Advisor with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics

Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Adrian Keevil
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Partner, PlusTick Partners

Andrea Larson
Associate Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Jeanne M. Liedtka
United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Joshua D. Margolis
James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard Business School

Bidhan L. Parmar
Associate Professor in Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Robert Phillips
Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy; George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics, The Schulich School of Business, York University

John W. Rosenblum
Vice Chairman and Member of Board of Directors, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC; Former Dean, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; and Former Dean, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Mary Rorty
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University Medical Center; Fellow, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

Robert J. Sack
Professor Emeritus, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Sankaran Venkataraman
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

James P. Walsh
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Patricia H. Werhane
Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics, Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University

Donna J. Wood
Emeritus Faculty, University of Northern Iowa 

Jenny Mead
Senior Researcher  
MeadE@darden.virginia.edu

Jenny Mead is the senior researcher and case writer at the Olsson Center, where she has written over 300 business ethics cases, teaching notes and technical notes. Mead is the producer and director of the documentaries Obedience: New Insights and Leadership & Theater: Ethics, Innovation and Creativity, and is a playwright herself.