After serving as co-director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Business, Prof. Andy Wicks is now the director of the Center.
“I am pleased to announce that Andrew C. Wicks will become the Director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics effective July 1, 2009,” said Darden’s Dean Bob Bruner in an e-mail to the School’s faculty and staff.
An international leader in the field of business ethics, the Olsson Center serves as a resource for executives, scholars, students, and Darden alumni who are faced with the challenges of integrating ethical thinking into business decision-making. It is ranked among the top academic centers for the study of ethics.
“The Center plays an extremely significant role here at Darden,” said Bruner. “Its contributions and accomplishments have helped shape the School and its graduates.”
Bruner listed specific highlights pertaining to the Olsson Center:
- Leadership of Darden’s teaching program in business ethics including the required and elective courses,
- The development of a Ph.D. program in Management with an emphasis on business ethics whose graduates are leading teachers and scholars all over the world,
- Hosting of the nationally recognized Ruffin Lectures which have brought leading academicians and practitioners to Darden to discuss important business ethics issues,
- The publication of hundreds of books, journal articles, and case studies for use by academicians, practitioners, and students,
- Olsson’s leadership was instrumental in the establishment of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics collaboration between the Business Roundtable and top business ethics faculty - which is housed at Darden.
Since 2002, Wicks has been co-director of the Center with Darden Prof. Ed Freeman. Wicks is a faculty member in Darden’s Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics area. He joined the Darden faculty in 2002 after spending the previous ten years teaching business ethics at the University of Washington Graduate Business School.
Wicks has written widely on a variety of topics in business ethics including stakeholder theory, trust, total quality management, accounting ethics, and managed care.
“In this role, Professor Wicks will guide the Olsson Center toward fulfilling its mission to be one of the leading sources of thinking about the role of ethics in business and to enhance the intellectual life of the University of Virginia by contributing to a University wide conversation about the role of ethics in modern society,” said Bruner.
Founded in 1955, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business improves society by developing principled leaders in the world of practical affairs.
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