Laura Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in
the Management Department at DePaul University’s College of Commerce, where she has
received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the college’s Outstanding Service
Award and numerous university competitive research grants. She also serves as Research
Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. In her work in the
private sector, she directs Zynga.org, the social initiative component of Zynga Game
Network; her focus is on its external partnerships. 

She only recently returned to the faculty, after serving for a number of years as
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. In that capacity, she was responsible for,
among other programs, the administration and adjudication of the Academic Integrity
Policy across the entire university (24,000+ students). Currently, she is serving on the
Projects Committee of the global Vincentian Family, helping to design a
micro-development, finance and education system for the poor of Haiti. 

She has been named the Gourlay Professor at the Melbourne Business School/Trinity College
at the University of Melbourne (2007-2008), an invited professor at INSEAD (France), HEC
(France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III and at the Grenoble Graduate
School of Business, among other European universities. On behalf of the accrediting body,
AACSB, Hartman is the global coordinator of the bi-annual seminar series, “Teaching
Business Ethics.” 

Hartman is a recognized expert in the field of business ethics on issues related to
corporate governance, responsibility and culture, the employment relationship, global
labor conditions and standards, the impact of technology on employment relationships, and
the alleviation of global poverty through profitable corporate partnerships. Hartman’s
experience spans over 20 years in both consulting (advisory and training) and academia as
it relates to legal and corporate risk management, vulnerability assessment, and business
ethics. Given the current economic conditions, her expertise is vital and timely in
advising corporate executives and the professional community on actions necessary to
enhance ethical leadership, to mitigate corporate risks (legal, fraud, financial), to
implement a sustainable corporate governance framework, to provide appropriate and
effective business ethics training to employees (to meet mandatory legal requirements and
to moderate key risks), and to generate morale under exigent circumstances.

Articles

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A Modular Approach to Business Ethics Integration: At the intersection of the Stand-Alone and the Integrated approaches (with patricia werhane), Journal of Business Ethics (2010)
With learning objectives designed precisely to measure the student delta based on content, process and...
 

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Integrating Ethics Across Disciplines: The McDonald’s Case and Poverty Alleviation (with regina wolfe and patricia werhane), Teaching Business Ethics (2009)
The question of whether ethical issues should be integrated throughout an undergraduate or graduate business...
 

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Translating Corporate Culture around the World: A cross-cultural analysis of whistleblowing as an example of how to say and do the right thing (with dawn elm, tara radin, and kelly richmond pope), Politeia: Corporate and Stakeholder Responsibility Theory and Practice (2009)
 

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Interpreting Ethical Polyphony (with david bevan), Business Ethics: A European Review (2008)
The second part of the polyphonic conversation introduced by the article immediately preceding it, above....
 

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Saint Vincent de Paul and the Mission of the Institute for Business & Professional Ethics: Why Companies Should Care about Poverty (with patricia werhane and scott kelley), Vincentian Heritage (Special Issue on Vincentian Higher Education and Poverty Reduction) (2008)
In 2006, following St. Vincent of DePaul’s commitment to serving the poor, the IBPE aligned...
 

Books

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Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships: Globalization, Markets and Economic Well-Being (with patricia werhane, scott kelley, and dennis moberg) (2009)
In this book, the authors approach poverty alleviation from an atypical perspective. The thesis is...
 

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Employment Law for Business (with dawn beneett-alexander) (2009)
Employment law is one of the most consistently used areas of information business students will...
 

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The Global Corporation: Sustainable, Effective and Ethical Practices, A Case Book (with patricia werhane) (2009)
This text brings together case studies focusing on specific instances of corporate best practices. All...
 

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Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility (with joseph desjardins) (2008)

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Perspectives in Business Ethics (2004)
This text addresses traditional business ethics topics from a variety of perspectives and in such...
 

Chapters and Case Studies

BHP Billiton and Mozal (with e. mead and p. werhane), Case Study No. UVA-E-0316(a) and (b) (2008)
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resource company at the start of the 21st century,...
 

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Business, Profit, Partnership and the Global Common Good (with scott kelley and patricia werhane), Frontiers of Business Ethics (2008)
The chapter considers the reduction of poverty through for-profit initiatives, with a critique of global...
 
Started as Crew: Jan Fields and McDonald’s (with j. sheehan and e. mead), Case Study No. UVA-E-0308 (2008)
In the “quick service” food industry, infamous for high turnover and poor training, McDonald’s Corporation...
 

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The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in A Globalized Economy (with scott kelley and patricia werhane), Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy (2007)
This chapter defends the following thesis: Poverty can be alleviated, if not eradicated, both locally...
 

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Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce (2007)
 

Working Papers

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Mental Models that Impede Business’ Role in Global Poverty Alleviation (with dennis moberg, patricia werhane, and scott kelley) (2010)

Six defective mental models that obstruct multinational enterprises from efforts at global poverty alleviation are...

 

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Mind the Green Gap: A Critical Examination of Voluntary Carbon Offset Providers (with k. kathy dhanda) (2010)

In this paper, we explore the world’s response to the increasing impact of carbon emissions...

 

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The Quandary of Serving Multiple Masters: An Institutional Exploratory Analysis of Publishing in Business Law (with Robert S. Rubin, John R. Olson, and James A. Belohlav), ExpressO (2004)
Notwithstanding published articles on the nature and quality of research and scholarship in practically every...
 

Other

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Other Publication-Related Activities, including Media Interviews, Citations, References, Quotes and Minor Publications (2009)
Other Publication-Related Activities, including Media Interviews, Citations, References, Quotes and Minor Publications (signified where "Hartman"...