Norman E. Bowie is the Elmer L Andersen Chair in
Corporate Responsibility at the University of
Minnesota where he holds a joint appointment in
the departments of strategic management and
philosophy. He is an Academic Advisor with the
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate
Ethics. His most recent books are Guide to
Business Ethics (2002) and Business Ethics: A
Kantian Perspective (1999). His most recent
book, Management Ethics, will be published in
the fall of 2004. In addition his text Ethical
Theory and Business (with Tom Beauchamp) went
into its seventh edition in 2003.
Professor Bowie has been a
Fellow at Harvard’s Program for Ethics and the
Professions and has served as Dixons Professor
of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at
the London Business School. He is past president
of The Society for Business Ethics, The American
Society of Value Inquiry and former Executive
Director of the American Philosophical
Association. He serves on the editorial boards
of Business Ethics Quarterly and Business and
Professional Ethics Journal and is a senior
contributing editor of the new Journal of
Business Ethics Education. He teaches the
required business ethics course in the Minnesota
Carlson Executive MBA course as well as sections
in the regular MBA program. In 2003 he initiated
an international business ethics course that
takes MBA students to Europe. He teaches the
required ethics course in Minnesota’s joint MBA
with the Warsaw School of Economics.
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