Laura Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics in the Management Department at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, where she has received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Spirit of DePaul Award, the Woman of Spirit Award in honor of St. Louise de Marillac, the University Public Service Award, the College 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, Hartman served for several years as Director of External Partnerships for Zynga.Org, through which Zynga players have contributed more than $14 million toward the both domestic and international social causes. She is currently Board Chair of the School of Choice Education Organization, which established and now oversees L’Ecole de Choix, a unique tri-lingual elementary school in Haiti (www.EcoledeChoix.org). From 2009 - 2011, she represented DePaul University on the Worldwide Vincentian Family’s Vincentian Board for Haiti, a committee responsible for hands-on design and implementation of a micro-development, finance and education system for people living in poverty in Haiti (including its online project, www.zafen.org). She was named to that effort after having served for a number of years as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for the university. 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). Hartman also chaired DePaul’s Task Force on Speech and Expression Principles at the request of its President, among other service contributions. 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.
Global Poverty Alleviation
Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid (with j calton, p werhane, and d bevan), Journal of Business Ethics (2013)
This paper builds on London & Hart’s critique (2011) that C. K. Prahalad’s best-selling book...
Speaking of Mission: Interview, DePaul University (2011)
Broadcast of an interview by DePaul Univ.'s Office of Mission and Values. nterview a member...
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...
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...
Ethical Decision-Making
Proposition: Shared Value as an Incomplete Mental Model (with p werhane), Business Ethics Journal Review (2013)
Much of the attention of ethics scholars has focused on the balance of self-interest with...
Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making: Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience (with p werhane, c archer, e englehardt, and m pritchard) (2013)
Moral failures in business decision-making may often be traced to narrow or compromised mental models...
Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid (with j calton, p werhane, and d bevan), Journal of Business Ethics (2013)
This paper builds on London & Hart’s critique (2011) that C. K. Prahalad’s best-selling book...
False Beliefs, Partial Truths: Personal Myths and Ethical Blind Spots (with crina archer), Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics (2012)
While unethical actions may arise from conscious, deliberate and reflective choices to do ‘wrong,’ many...
Business Ethics : Decision Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility (with Laura Pincus Hartman and Joseph R. DesJardins), Academic Affairs Faculty Book Gallery (2011)
Hartman/DesJardins is designed to prepare the student to apply an ethical decision-making model, not only...
Ethics and the Employment Relationship
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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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...
Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops (with denis arnold), Human Rights Quarterly (2006)
Disputes concerning global labor practices are at the core of contemporary debates regarding globalization. Critics...
Pedagogy and Professional Development
Speaking of Mission: Interview, DePaul University (2011)
Broadcast of an interview by DePaul Univ.'s Office of Mission and Values. nterview a member...
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...
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"...
Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility (with joseph desjardins) (2008)
http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073136867
Ethics and Multinational Enterprises
Proposition: Shared Value as an Incomplete Mental Model (with p werhane), Business Ethics Journal Review (2013)
Much of the attention of ethics scholars has focused on the balance of self-interest with...
Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid (with j calton, p werhane, and d bevan), Journal of Business Ethics (2013)
This paper builds on London & Hart’s critique (2011) that C. K. Prahalad’s best-selling book...
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...
Global Labor Conditions
Speaking of Mission: Interview, DePaul University (2011)
Broadcast of an interview by DePaul Univ.'s Office of Mission and Values. nterview a member...
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...
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...
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 Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility (with joseph desjardins) (2008)
http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073136867
Culture and Responsibility, Governance
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...
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)
Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility (with joseph desjardins) (2008)
http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073136867
Exploring the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines as a model for triple bottom-line reporting (with mollie painter-morland), African Journal of Business Ethics (2007)
The paper is aimed at analyzing the contribution that the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) makes...
The Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility: United States and European Union Multinational Corporations (with robert rubin and kathy dhanda), Journal of Business Ethics (2007)
This study explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) by conducting a cross-cultural analysis of communication of...
Ethics and Technology
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)
http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?isbn=0073136867
Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce (2007)
Perspectives in Business Ethics (2004)
This text addresses traditional business ethics topics from a variety of perspectives and in such...
Legal Perspectives
Employment Law for Business (with dawn beneett-alexander) (2009)
Employment law is one of the most consistently used areas of information business students will...
Carbon Markets
Carbon Offset Markets: A Viable Instrument? (with k. kathy dhanda), Handbook of CO2 in Power Systems (2012)
We explore the realm of carbon offset markets that have been set up to enable...
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...
The Ethics of Carbon Neutrality: A Critical Examination of Voluntary Carbon Offsets (with Kathy K. Dhanda), Journal of Business Ethics (2011)
Additional Subjects in Ethics
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"...
Exploring the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines as a model for triple bottom-line reporting (with mollie painter-morland), African Journal of Business Ethics (2007)
The paper is aimed at analyzing the contribution that the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) makes...
The Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility: United States and European Union Multinational Corporations (with robert rubin and kathy dhanda), Journal of Business Ethics (2007)
This study explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) by conducting a cross-cultural analysis of communication of...
Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce (2007)
An Analysis of Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability Education in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Business Schools: Baseline Data and Future Research Directions (with lisa jones christenson, ellen peirce, michael hoffman, and jamie carrier), Journal of Business Ethics (2006)
This paper investigates how deans and directors at the top 50 global MBA programs (as...