Thomas Donaldson

Education

• PhD, University of Kansas, 1976; BS, University of Kansas, 1967

Recent Consulting

• KPMG; Goldman Sachs; Ernst & Young. Areas: Ethics, leadership, and corporate governance

Career and Professional Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award, The Society for Business Ethics, 2019; Sumner Marcus Award, 2016 (Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management); Aspen Institute’s Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2009; “Most influential ‘thought leader’” in Ethisphere Magazine’s ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics; Outstanding Book of 2005, SIM Division of the Academy of Management (Given for Ties that Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics, Harvard Business School Press, coauthored with Thomas W. Dunfee.); Outstanding Book of 1998, SIM Division of the Academy of Management (Given for Ethics in International Business, Oxford University Press). Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award: 2019, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009; Outstanding Teacher of the Year award, 2005 (The Class of 1984 MBA Teaching Award); Rapaport Family Teaching Award, 2014, Undergraduate. Wharton Outstanding Teacher of the Year award, 1998 (The Class of 1984 MBA Teaching Award); Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1991, Georgetown University Graduate School of Business.; Distinguished Researcher of the Year, Georgetown University School of Business, 1995.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1996-present (named Mark O. Winkelman Professor, 1996). Previous appointments: The John Connolly Professor, Georgetown University 1990-1996; The C. Stewart Sheppard Professor , Darden School, University of Virginia 1988-89; The Henry J. Wirtenberger Professor of Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago; 1984-88; Asst. and Assoc. Professor, Loyola University of Chicago, 1976-1984.

Professional Leadership

Associate Editor, Academy of Management Review, 2003-2007; Associate Editor, Business Ethics Quarterly, 2015-2020; Chair, Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2008; Director, Wharton PhD Program in Ethics and Legal Studies, 2002-2008; Co-founder and past president of the Society for Business Ethics.

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership

Appointed member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA (formerly the NASD) (2004-2009). Trustee, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (1992-2018); Chair, FTSE4Good US Committee (2002-2018)

Awards and Honors

• Teaching Awards, 1995-2011
• Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA Core Curriculum, 2011
• Aspen Institute’s Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2009
• Most influential “thought leader” by Ethisphere Magazine’s ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics., 2009
• Excellence in Teaching, 2009
• Excellence in Teaching, 2007
• Excellence in Teaching, 2006
• Class of 1984 Award, 2005
• Excellence in Teaching, 2005
• Excellence in Teaching, 2002
• Excellence in Teaching, 2001
• Excellence in Teaching, 1999
• Award for Outstanding Book, SIM Division of the Academy of Management (Given for Ethics in International Business, Oxford University Press), 1998
• Class of 1984 Award, 1998
• Excellence in Teaching, 1998
• Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1997
• Distinguished Researcher of the Year, Georgetown University School of Business, 1995