Anita Anand is currently a professor of law and is cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy and Governance. She is the Academic Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession including its Program on Ethics in Law and Business. In 2006, she was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale Law School. From 2007-2009, she served as associate dean of the JD Program at the Faculty of Law. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa and a Herbert Smith Visitor at the University of Cambridge in 2009-2010. Professor Anand has conducted research for the Province of Ontario’s Five Year Review Committee, the federal Wise Person’s Committee, and the IDA Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada. She was the inaugural Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel from 2010-12 and the past president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association. Her main research areas relate to the regulation of capital markets and include a focus on corporate and securities law as well as corporate ethics. E-mail: anita.anand@utoronto.ca.
Cedric E. Dawkins (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is Associate Professor of Management at the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University. His research broadly focuses at the intersection of labour and CSR, but also examines issues of power and corporate transparency and accountability. His work has been published in Business & Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Employee Relations, Journal of Business Communication, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. E-mail: dawkins@dal.ca.
Bryan Husted is the Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business and Sustainability Professor of Policy in the Schulich School of Business at York University and Professor, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. His research focuses on international business, business ethics, sustainability, and corporate responsibility. E-mail: bhusted@schulich.yorku.ca.
Christopher Michaelson’s business career began with PwC in New York, where he was one of the first consultants in an ethics advisory practice, serving MNCs, IFIs, government agencies, and NGOs. In 2002, he moved into academia and has since then maintained a flexible, strategic advisory role with PwC. His Ph.D., in Philosophy, is from the University of Minnesota, and he has held full-time academic positions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, NYU’s Stern School of Business (where he has served on the Business and Society faculty since 2005), and the University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business (where he is now an Associate Professor and has served on the Ethics and Business Law faculty since 2008). His recent research examining business and capitalism through narrative literature includes a 2015 commentary in the Academy of Management Review, “How reading novels can help management scholars cultivate ambiculturalism,” and a forthcoming essay in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, “A novel approach to business ethics education.” He also has published extensively in academic and practice venues on meaningful work. E-mail: cmmichaelson@stthomas.edu.
Celia Moore is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Her research focuses on the unanticipated causes and consequences of unethical behavior and organizational corruption, in particular how organizational contexts affect how we construe, and therefore facilitate, morally problematic beahavior. She has published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Annals, Research in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Ethics, , Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. E-mail: cmoore@london.edu.
William Muir is a graduate of the Juris Doctor and Master of Economics programs at University of Toronto and was a research assistant for Professor Anita Anand at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His most recently published work is Class AMPs: Withdrawing the Corporate Veil on Judgment Proofing in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. His research interests include corporate law, incentive design in contracts, risk and decision-making under uncertainty. William will be articling as a student-at-law with Loopstra Nixon LLP for 2015-2016. E-mail: will.muir@mail.utoronto.ca.
Pierre-Yves Néron is an assistant professor of economic and social ethics at Lille Catholic University, a researcher at the Centre Éthique Économie Entreprise (C3E) and an affiliated researcher at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). He also teaches at Faculty of Law, the Faculty of economics and management and the Philosophy institute. He has been previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the political philosophy of markets and business firms. His work combines approaches from business ethics, economics, corporate law, and contemporary political philosophy in grappling with questions of distributive justice and inequalities, the role of the state – and of intergovernmental regulatory bodies – in shaping market structures. He is studying recent developments in the egalitarian thought by attempting to develop a specific understanding of it, associated with the broad “economic democracy” tradition. His articles appeared in Res Publica, Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly. E-mail: py.neron@gmail.com.
Wayne Norman has been the Mike & Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics at Duke University since 2007. He teaches in the philosophy department and at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. The penultimate draft of his article in this issue was written last autumn, while he was Visiting Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. E-mail: wayne.norman@duke.edu.
Abraham Singer is currently a PhD Candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting scholar at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University, Chicago and the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. Beginning in the fall of 2015, he will be lecturer at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. E-mail: abe.singer@utoronto.ca.
Manuel Velasquez is the author of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Prentice-Hall) and is the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at the Santa Clara University, where he holds appointments in the departments of Management and Philosophy and teaches courses in business ethics, business and public policy and in business strategy. The author of numerous articles and case studies on business ethics, Professor Velasquez has provided consulting and training in business ethics for several companies as well as workshops on teaching business ethics to business school faculty. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Gonzaga University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. E-mail: mvelasquez@scu.edu.
