Andrew C. Wicks

Andrew C. Wicks, Ruffin Professor of Business Administration; Director, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics; Director, Doctoral Program

  • BA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; MA, PhD, University of Virginia
Office: FOB 286
Phone: +1-434-243-8739
E-mail: WicksA@darden.virginia.edu

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    MBA Coursess

    First Year Ethics
    Leadership, Values, and Ethics
    Faith, Religion and Responsible Management Decision-Making
    Global Business Experience (GBE): Cairo, Egypt

    Executive Education Courses

    Business Ethics

    Biography

    Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at Darden. He is director of the Olsson Center for Ethics, director of the doctoral program, academic advisor for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and an adjunct professor in the Religious Studies department at UVA.

    Wicks is co-author of three books including Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation and Success, published in 2007 by Yale University Press; Business Ethics: A Managerial Approach, published in 2010 by Prentice Hall; and Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art, published by Cambridge University Press in early 2010. He has published over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in a wide variety of journals in business ethics, management and the humanities.

    His research interests include stakeholder responsibility, stakeholder theory, trust, health care ethics, total quality management and ethics and entrepreneurship. He works with MBA students, executives and corporations in the United States and abroad. Wicks is actively working with Ethics-LX, an entrepreneurial venture, to create a series of web-based simulations that incorporate ethics into the functional areas of business. He has received awards for both his research and teaching.

    Wicks joined the Darden faculty in 2002 after teaching for 10 years at the University of Washington Graduate Business School. 

    Wicks Vitae

    Expertise

    Business Ethics
    Corporate Social Responsibility

    Featured Video

    Stakeholder Responsibility

    Andrew C. Wicks of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia gives insights into "Stakeholder Responsibility." This video is part of the Masters Seminars in Business Ethics video series. The series features thought leaders in business ethics addressing topics in their particular fields of expertise, including their approach to teaching business ethics. The purpose of the series is to make the best thinking in business ethics globally available free of charge for educators, students and managers interested in embedding ethics into business practice. This series is a partnership between the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.