2010 Faculty Pioneer Finalists

Jennifer Griffinis a professor of Strategic Management & Public Policy at The George Washington University School of Business and is the Director of GW’s Institute for Corporate Responsibility-Global Stakeholder Strategies program. She has received several awards for teaching excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, executive and doctoral levels. Griffin’s research and teaching focuses on the intersections among corporate strategy, public policy, and corporate social impacts in a global economy. She examines the social and public policy implications of, and on, business decisions. By examining institutions and stakeholders within a firm’s socio-political contexts, Griffin explores why modern firms make the decisions they do. Her research has won numerous awards including best paper awards. She has published in a range of management journals and has been an invited speaker for Tampere University of Technology (Finland), the Public Affairs Council (Washington, DC), USAID’s Kazach program, University of Chile, the Canadian Conference Board, the Australian Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Melbourne Institute, and the Washington Campus, among others.

 

Chris Marquis is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School and is affiliated with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and Harvard University Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations. He teaches the MBA elective Commerce and Society: The Strategic Value of Corporate Social Responsibility. Marquis’ current research is focused on how historical and geographic processes have shaped global firms' CSR strategies, and how corporations can be designed to maximize both business and social value. Recently he has been researching how CSR and sustainability initiatives have developed in China. Marquis is on the Advisory Board of PNC Financial’s $100,000,000 CSR initiative, Grow Up Great and advises a number of other large global companies on their CSR initiatives.

 

Marquis’ research has won a number of national awards including the 2006 William H. Newman and Louis R. Pondy Awards from the Academy of Management, the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2003 James D. Thompson Award from the American Sociological Association. He was also runner-up in the Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009 and a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Marquis received a BA in History from Notre Dame, MA in History and MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh, and MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan. Prior to his academic career, he worked for 6 years in the financial services industry, most recently as Vice President and Technology Manager for a business unit of Bank One Corporation (now J.P. Morgan Chase).

Paola Perez-Aleman is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, where she teaches strategic management and international business in the MBA, BCom, and PhD programs. Her research and teaching focus is on integrating the study of entrepreneurial growth with wider social and economic development concerns. Her research advances the understanding of how to build the capabilities of enterprises in low-income contexts, and the ways global supply chains achieve sustainable practices while including poorer enterprises. Her work on clusters has impact on the design of strategies to foster business growth with sustainability in developing countries. Professor Perez-Aleman works with NGOs, public, and private organizations to support rural and urban development. She earned a BSc from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ann Tenbrunsel is the Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics in the Department of Management at Mendoza College of Business at The University of Notre Dame and the co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Her research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision-making, with her dissertation on this topic winning the State Farm Dissertation Award. Her work in this area has focused partially on the situational factors that lead to unethical decision-making, including the role that temptation, uncertainty, power and sanctions play in the ethical decision-making process. More recently, she has explored the process of ethical fading, arguing that individuals often make unethical decisions because the ethical aspects of the decision are hidden to the decision maker. She has also examined the role that organizations play in promoting unethical decisions, including the influence of formal and informal systems. Her work has been published in many academic journals and she is the editor or author of several books on this topic.