Laura Hartman is Special Assistant to the President for Haiti Initiatives, as well as 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 manages external partnerships for Zynga.org, the social initiative component of Zynga Game Network. 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
Development, Poverty and Business Ethics (with patricia werhane), Universia Business Review (2011)
Proposals surrounding poverty alleviation are greatly affected by the ways in which we think about...
The Ethics of Carbon Neutrality: A Critical Examination of Voluntary Carbon Offset Providers (with k. kathy dhanda), Journal of Business Ethics (2011)
In this paper, we explore the world’s response to the increasing impact of carbon emissions...
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...
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...
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)
Books
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...
Employment Law for Business (with dawn beneett-alexander) (2009)
Employment law is one of the most consistently used areas of information business students will...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce (2007)
Working Papers
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...
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...
Presentations
Speaking of Mission: Interview, DePaul University (2011)
Broadcast of an interview by DePaul Univ.'s Office of Mission and Values. nterview a member...
Stimulating Investments in Haitian SMEs, Fonkoze/ DePaul University / Vincentian Family (2010)
A Peer-to-Project site to link lenders, donors and investors with SMEs and social projects in...
Stimulating Investments in Haitian SMEs (.PDF version), Fonkoze / DePaul University / Vincentian Family (2010)
A Peer-to-Project site to link lenders, donors and investors with SMEs and social projects in...
Stimulating Investments in Haitian SMEs (.pps version), Fonkoze / DePaul University / Vincentian Family (2010)
[NOTE: This is the .pps version of the same presentation posted as an .xps and...
Other
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"...