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Wharton's PhD program in Ethics and Legal Studies, started in 2003,
is the first doctoral program of its kind in the world, built on Wharton's pioneering work in business
ethics since the early 1990s. It focuses on ethical and legal norms of conduct in management. Students take
core courses in ethics and law in business, plus courses in one additional concentration (e.g., management,
finance, marketing, or accounting).
Learn more...
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Current PhD Candidates and Students |
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Colleen Baker is a fifth-year
doctoral student who received a BA from
the University of Notre Dame, a JD/MBA from the University of
Virginia, and worked in both law and information technology.
While at the Wharton School, she has both taught and been a teaching
assistant for “Negotiations and Dispute Resolution.” Her
teaching interests are in business/commercial law, negotiations, and
business ethics. Colleen’s research interests are in financial
regulation, bankruptcy, sovereign wealth funds, sovereign
bankruptcy, and legal and ethical issues in economically emerging
markets (particularly Latin America). Her dissertation is
entitled Regulating the Invisible: The Case of Over-the-Counter
Derivatives.
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Ryan Burg is a sixth year doctoral student whose work focuses on
the measurement of corporate power and on normative conceptions of
corporate legitimacy. As an undergraduate at Penn, Ryan studied
Philosophy, Politics and Economics and subsequently completed an MA
in political theory. Ryan also helped found the Responsible
Endowment Coalition, a network of students, alumni and faculty who
work on socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI) in
college and university endowments. |
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Gastón de los Reyes is a first-year
doctoral student who, prior to
enrolling, practiced as a corporate attorney in New York, as
a litigator in Massachusetts and as a law clerk with the U.S. Court
of Appeals in Puerto Rico. Gastón has an undergraduate degree
in philosophy from Harvard and a J.D. and M.A. in philosophy from
Boston University. Gastón’s research is focused on the
intersection of business ethics, law and organizational change and
in particular problems relating to conflicts of interest and
disclosure.
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Andrew Hohns is a second year doctoral
student whose work focuses on normative aspects of business ethics,
with a particular focus on promise and trust transactions. At
present, he is applying this framework to analyze the ethics of
credit and lending, formalizing the duties of various transactional
counterparties. Andrew received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University's Wharton School and earned his Master of Liberal Arts from the University's School of Arts and Sciences.
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Tae Wan Kim is a third year doctoral student
whose work focuses
on normative aspects of business ethics: Confucian approach to
business ethics, the moral significance of workplace civility, trust
and reputation, promise and contract, and corporate minds. As
an undergraduate at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, Tae Wan
studied philosophy.
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Livia Levine is a first year doctoral
student who received her B.A. from Penn in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, concentrating on game theory. In addition to her academic life, Livia has acquired a rich background in Judaic studies, focusing on economic and ethical implications of Talmudic law. Livia’s work at Wharton focuses on social dynamics in negotiations.
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Rosemarie Monge
is a fifth year doctoral student who received her B.A. in
International Studies and B.S. in Economics from the University of
Pennsylvania. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked at
a community development venture capital fund in Philadelphia and
volunteered with a micro-entrepreneurship center in rural Peru. Her
research interests are the ethical responsibility of economic actors
(in particular managers), moral dilemmas in the marketplace,
exploitation and questions regarding the role of business in
economic development. Rosemarie has also been a teaching assistant
for and taught LGST 210: Corporate Responsibility and Ethics.
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Former PhD Student(s) |
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Katherina Glac now teaches at the University of St. Thomas. Her
research focuses on investor decision making behind socially responsible investing,
fiduciary responsibility of managers and financial intermediaries,
autonomy in the marketplace, and
integration of normative and empirical research .
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