R. Edward Freeman
is University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society, and Senior Fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award winning book,
Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach
(Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest book is
Bridging the Values Gap
with Ellen Auster published by Barrett Koehler in July 2015. He has received honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Radboud University Nijmegen, Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain, the Hanken School of Economics in Finland and Sherbrooke University in Canada for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. Freeman is Co-Editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Business Ethics
, one of the leading journals in business ethics. He is the author of more than 200 publications in a wide variety of academic and practitioner outlets. At its 2010 annual meeting, the Society for Business Ethics presented Freeman with its "Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship Award" for his stakeholder theory work, to which there has currently been more than 50,000 citations. He is a lifelong student of philosophy, martial arts and the blues. Freeman is a founding member of Red Goat Records ([...]) bringing the joy of original soul and rhythm and blues music into the 21st Century.

Sergiy Dmytriyev
is pursuing a doctorate in Business Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. His research interests include supererogation in organizations, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder responsibility, mindsets toward work, company success, disagreements, and meaning in life. Prior to working at Darden, he worked for Procter & Gamble, Bain & Company, and Monsanto in Europe. As a management consultant at Bain, he conducted multiple projects on strategy development, company transformation, and organization redesign in the financial services, airline, oil and gas, FMCG, and real estate industries.

Andrew C. Wicks
is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, director of the doctoral program and academic advisor for the Institute for Business in Society. Wicks also serves as an adjunct professor in the Religious Studies department and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at UVA. Wicks is co-author of four books. He has published over 40 articles and his work has appeared in a wide variety of journals in business ethics, management and the humanities. His research interests include stakeholder responsibility, stakeholder theory, trust, health care ethics, total quality management, and ethics and entrepreneurship. He works with MBA students, executives and corporations in the United States and abroad.

Celebrates the work of Patricia Werhane, an iconic figure in business ethics

Includes new contributions related to Werhane's work, to the management literature in the areas of Moral Imagination, Employee Rights, and Modern Capitalism

Includes Werhane's responses to the authors who reflected and/or criticized her work, and used her findings to advance management literature