Programs in Business Ethics

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is a place where businesspeople, business ethics scholars, and students learn from one another. Through Center partnerships, programs, and conferences, practitioners bring real-world concerns to the attention of faculty and staff, and they, in turn, share the results of their research with the business world.

Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Companies in sectors from information technology to health care join together with distinguished academics and subject matter experts to explore questions, challenges and opportunities faced by organizations in managing their ethics and compliance programs.

Thirteen companies are currently members: Adobe Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Blue Shield of California, Ernst & Young, Flextronics, Hewlett Packard, Morrison & Foerster, Novellus, Premier, Inc., Rambus, StoneTurn Group, Visa
and Wilson Sonsini. Faculty partners come from Santa Clara University, U.C.-Berkeley, U.M.-Kansas City, University of Denver, St. Mary's and Menlo College.

Consulting and Public Speaking
Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson is a well-known commentator on business and organizational ethics. He regularly addresses groups in such industries as financial services, health care, and corporate affairs. Executive-in-Residence James Balassone consults with local firms on developing and implementing business ethics practices and programs.

Staff
Kirk O. Hanson, Center executive director, is SCU's John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics. He is one of the pioneers of the business ethics field and taught business ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for 23 years.
KOHanson@scu.edu

Jim Balassone, executive-in-residence, has held significant leadership positions in sales, marketing, and business development at companies including Hitachi Data Systems and IBM. He has worked with companies on implementing campaigns for improving ethical culture.
JBalassone@scu.edu