People
Many people write extensively about ethics in business. This page lists but a few representative individuals. Many journals also devote considerable attention to ethics.
Professors David Brady and Dale Miller - Stanford GSB Professors developed an MBA seminar to explore topics in business ethics.
Professor David Brady's research focuses on the American Congress, the party system, and public policy. He has written on Internet voting, the women's movement, regulation of the nuclear industry, apportionment, the Supreme Court handling of abortion, and Korean and Japanese politics. He presently heads a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution on Polarization in American Politics. Professor Brady's teaching focuses on non-market strategy for corporations and ethical applications in building quality companies. He has been awarded several teaching awards including the prestigious Dinkelspiel and Phi Beta Kappa distinguished teacher prizes.
Professor Dale Miller is the Director of the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Center for Social Innovation. Professor Miller’s research focuses on various aspects of social and group behavior. Long interested in social norms, he has investigated the processes underlying the development, transmission, and modification of group norms. He has been especially interested in the emergence and perpetuation of social norms that lack broad support. A second focus of his research is the origins of people’s commitment to social justice and the role that justice plays in social life, especially voluntarism and charitable giving. He has also studied and written on the sources and cures of cultural conflict.
Scotty McLennan - Stanford Dean of Religious Life - from his bio: Scotty McLennan's research has been at the interface of religion,ethics, and the professions. He coauthored, with Laura Nash, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life (Jossey-Bass, 2001). He teaches a second-year elective course entitled "The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature." He is currently collecting interviews of individuals who have found novels, plays, and short stories with business characters helpful in examining moral and spiritual issues in their own business careers.
Deborah Rhode - Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Center on Ethics - from her bio: Deborah Rhode is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country ' s fifty most influential women lawyers.
