Thomas Donaldson is The Mark O. Winkelman Professor in Ethics and Law at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. He is an expert in the areas of business ethics

Business ethics

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, values, and leadership

Leadership

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Publications

Donaldson has authored or edited several books:

• The Ties that Bind: A Social Contract Approach to Business Ethics, Harvard University Business School Press, 1999, co-authored with Thomas W. Dunfee
• Ethical Issues in Business, 8th edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., 2007, co-edited with Patricia Werhane
• Ethics in Business and Economics, 2 volume set, Ashgate Publishing, 1998, co-edited with Thomas W. Dunfee
• Ethics in International Business, Oxford University Press, 1989
• Corporations and Morality, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1982

His other writings have appeared in publications such as The Academy of Management Review, the Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

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, Ethics

Ethics (journal)

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, and Economics and Philosophy.

Awards and distinctions

• His book, Ties that Bind, was the winner of the 2005 SIM Academy of Management Best Book Award
• Chairman of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management (2007–2008)
• Founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics
• Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review from 2002–2007
• Named the most influential “thought leader” in Ethisphere Magazine’s 2007 ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

Prior to 1996 (from 1990 to 1996), he held the position of the John F. Connelly Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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. There he was voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year by MBA students and Distinguished Researcher of the Year by business school faculty members.

In the summer of 2002, he testified in the US Senate regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform legislation. In October, 2006, he delivered a two-hour address/workshop to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Anan, and the other Assistant Secretaries General regarding the UN’s reform initiative.