Kenneth E. Goodpaster

Kenneth Goodpaster earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his A.M. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan.

He has published in a wide variety of professional journals, including the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Business Ethics, Thought, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Harvard Business Review.

Goodpaster taught moral philosophy at the University of Notre Dame throughout the 1970s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. At Harvard, he developed the second-year elective course, Ethical Aspects of Corporate Policy, and the first-year module, Managerial Decision Making and Ethical Values (1989). He also co-authored Policies and Persons: A Casebook in Business Ethics (McGraw-Hill, Fourth Edition, 2006).

In 1990, Goodpaster accepted the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas (MN), where he teaches MBAs and executives, including a Great Books Seminar for business students and law students. His book, Conscience and Corporate Culture, has received generous praise from reviewers (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). Recently released was the much-anticipated history Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience for which Goodpaster served as Executive Editor (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is currently collaborating with his business ethics colleagues at St. Thomas on the 3rd edition of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management volume on Business Ethics.