Wharton Business Ethics Scholar To Deliver 1997 Shoemaker Lecture

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University Park, Pa. -- Thomas Donaldson, holder of the Mark O. Winkelman endowed professorship at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, will deliver the 1997 G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Business Ethics at the Nittany Lion Inn at University Park on April 8.

Titled "Making Every Value Count," Donaldson's talk is the ninth in a series made possible in 1986 through the generosity of G. Albert Shoemaker, the late coal industry executive, and his wife, Mercedes. The Shoemaker Lecture is a program of Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration.

Donaldson was the John F. Connelly professor of business ethics at Georgetown University for six years before he joined the faculty at Wharton. While at Georgetown, he was voted Distinguished Professor of the Year by MBA students and Distinguished Researcher of the Year by fellow members of the business school faculty.

Donaldson has written broadly in the area of business values and professional ethics. Books that he has either written or edited include: "Ethics in International Business," "Ethical Issues in Business" (fifth edition), "Issues in Moral Philosophy," "Case Studies in Business Ethics" (fourth edition), and "Corporations and Morality." He is a senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Ethics at the University of Virginia's Darden School, and he is a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics.

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