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Business ethics: decision making for personal integrity and social responsibility/ Laura P. Hartman, DePaul University, Joe DesJardins, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, Chris MacDonald, Ryerson University.—Third Edition.

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To Georgia. — Chris MacDonald

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Laura P. Hartman DePaul University Laura P. Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, serves as Special Assistant to the President with a focus on Haiti, and is also Research Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Hartman also chairs the board of a trilingual elementary school in Haiti: the School of Choice/l’Ecole de Choix. Previously, Hartman was Director of External Partnerships for Zynga .org , through which Zynga players have contributed more than $14 million toward both domestic and international social causes. From 2009 to 2011, Hartman represented DePaul University on the steering committee for Zafen.org , a micro- fi nance organization seeking to enhance economic development in Haiti to ben- efi t Haitians living in poverty. She has been an invited professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), and the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, among other European universities, and she previously held the Grainger Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her other books include Rising above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Challenges, Employment Law for Business, Perspectives in Business Ethics, and The Legal Environment of Business: Ethical and Public Policy Contexts. Hartman graduated from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.

Joe DesJardins College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University Joe DesJardins is Vice Provost, as well as Professor in the Department of Philosophy, at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota. His other books include: An Introduction to Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy, Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy & Theory , Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (co-editor with John McCall), and Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future. He is the former Executive Director of the Society for Business Ethics, and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of business ethics, environ- mental ethics, and sustainability. He received his B.A. from Southern Connecticut State University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at Villanova University.

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