The Olsson Center for Applied Ethics

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People

The Olsson Center for Applied Ethics is home to many internationally known thought leaders in the field of business ethics. Our faculty, fellows and staff regularly produce publications, conferences and other initiatives to advance the practice and theory of business ethics on a global level. We invite you to meet them here.

  • Faculty

    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:

  • Olsson Fellows

    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 

  • Staff

    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.