New Year, New Projects
This year, 2023, marks a decade of living and learning in the United Kingdom — first as a postgraduate student, now as a postdoctoral research fellow. Here’s a preview of what’s ahead. Publications are on my…
Modelling Virtue in Finance
As part of my postdoctoral work, I research moral exemplars — or role models — within UK financial services firms. Many will doubt that finance has good role models at all, given a long history of…
Year In Review 21/22
In Oxford, the new academic year has begun. And so, a brief overview of the previous year, an update on current goings-on, and a reflection are due. Here’s the executive summary: Overview: I taught, wrote, and…
An Ethics Model of the Firm
Beyond MacIntyre’s practice–institution framework This conference paper was prepared for the 2022 Annual Conference of the Society for Business Ethics. It was written in response to peer review of the original submission. You can download the…
Updates from the Conference Circuit
It’s that time of year: summer conferences! Since May, I’ve presented at four conferences. The first two focused on law and religion, the second two on virtue in business and in general. I am now preparing…
Video: Business ethics, saving grace or oxymoron?
I was recently on a panel with Georgetown University, discussing business ethics, human rights, and free speech. Many thanks to Professor Michael Scott and Sanford Ungar for the kind invitation!From Georgetown’s website: “As the Western world…
Lectures: Wisdom, corporate responsibility, and the social role of business
According to Aristotle, a virtue is an enduring disposition that allows a person to think, feel and act well, or appropriately, in a given situation (Nicomachean Ethics 1105b25–6). For example, against the attack of an enemy,…
World leading? A conversation on responsible leadership
This week The Oxford Character Project launched a series of postgraduate seminars aimed at generating discussion around the nature of responsible leadership. Attending the first session as a shadow facilitator, I was struck by the following…
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