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Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics. Until 1993 she was the Henry J. Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University of Chicago. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University

Professor Werhane is a founding member and past president of the Society of Business Ethics, past president of the American Society for Value Inquiry, and past president of the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics. She is also a member of the Academy of Management, the European Business Ethics Network, the American Philosophical Association, the International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, and the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth, Andersen Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Fulbright Specialist at All HallowsCollege Dublin Ireland and Visiting Scholar at Royal Holloway University of London and St. Thomas University Minneapolis.


Professor Patricia Werhane is the author or editor of over twenty-five books including Ethical Issues in Business, edited with Tom Donaldson eighth edition, Persons, Rights, and Corporations, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, and Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making, published by Oxford University Press. Her work, Profitable Partnerships for Poverty Alleviation with Laura Hartman, Dennis Moberg and Scott Kelley, focuses on globalization, with an emphasis on developing new models for corporate governance and corporate initiatives to alleviate poverty both in the United States and in less developed countries around the world. Written with co-authors, Corporate Responsibility: An American Experience traces the historical foundations of corporate responsibility in the United States and won the SIM Academy of Management Book Award for 2014. Her latest book, with Hartman, Archer, Englehardt and Pritchard, is Obstacles of Ethical Decision-Making published ate Cambridge University Press.

She has written over 100 published articles, case studies, and book chapters on various business ethics on such topics as employee and employer rights, mergers and acquisitions, responsibilities of multinational corporations, intellectual property, and the intersection between healthcare organizations and business ethics. Professor Werhane serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals and she is founder and former editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. She is also on the academic advisory committee in the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. In 2008 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine.