Professor of Leadership and Ethics

PRESS RELEASE

Ann K. Buchholtz, Ph.D., has been selected as the new Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Rutgers Business School (RBS). She will also serve as Research Director of the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership, developing courses and programs to fulfill the organization’s mission of promoting and strengthening ethical leadership among current and future business leaders.

"I am honored to join these prestigious institutions," states Buchholtz. "The need for ethical leadership and responsible business has never been more acute, and so I am very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the important work RBS and Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership are accomplishing."

As a member of the Department of Management and Global Business, Dr. Buchholtz will develop and teach courses on leadership and ethics from a value-based perspective in the undergraduate and MBA programs. "The Department of Management and Global Business is delighted that Professor Ann Buchholtz will join the RBS faculty," remarks Department Chair, Nancy DiTomaso, PhD.

"Her collaborative skills, her mentorship of doctoral students, and her visibility and leadership in the profession all make her an ideal fit for the leadership role she will play at Rutgers Business School. Ann has been consistently productive with an ongoing program of research that is both coherent and important as well as success working at the interface of several important areas of research: strategy, ethics, and social responsibility. The topic areas that she has developed as specialties are growing in relevance to the practice of business and for the field of management. They are especially important for the strategic goals of Rutgers Business School, said DiTomaso."

"As a member of the search committee that interviewed Ann, we were particularly attracted to her profound interest in the goals of the Institute and of the mission of Rutgers Newark to improve the social fabric of the city," observes James Abruzzo, Co-Founder of the Institute. "Businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, students, faculty and practitioners will all benefit from Ann's presence."

"Rutgers and the Institute for Ethical Leadership are exceptionally fortunate to have attracted Ann Buchholtz to our faculty and the Institute's leadership team," said Alex J. Plinio, Co-Founder of the Institute. "She is well known in her field for her research, teaching and consulting skill and ability. After all, she has written the key book used in classrooms across our country that focus on business, society, ethics and leadership. Ann will be making a major contribution to the mission of the Institute as we help both students and leaders in business, government and non profit organizations to navigate through today’s complex issues and to make decisions that enhance our civil society."

Buchholtz received her Ph.D. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored numerous articles that examine the intersection of business ethics, social issues and corporate governance. Her work has been published in Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Studies, Corporate Governance an International Review, among others, and presented in numerous national and international conferences.

She serves on the editorial boards of Business & Society and Business Ethics Quarterly. Buchholtz is the chairperson of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, where she was a member of the ethics task force that designed a Code of Ethics for the Academy, and she served as the inaugural chairperson of the Academy’s Ethics Adjudication Committee. In teaching, Buchholtz was awarded the "Trailblazer Advocate of the Year" award for her service learning programs, which taught business students to use their skills to effect positive changes in society. She is the recipient of many other teaching awards including Profound Effect on a Student Leader and various Outstanding Teaching Awards.