Author Note: Laura Hartman was most recently at DePaul University.  She also currently serves as executive director of a trailblazing trilingual elementary school in Haiti, the School of Choice/l'Ecole de Choix. She is also cofounded an online micro-development, finance, and education system for people living in poverty in Haiti, called Zafen. Previously, Hartman served as director of external partnerships for Zynga.org, the charitable arm of the social game developer Zynga. She has written many other books including Rising above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Challenges.
Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility 4e provides a comprehensive, accessible, and practical introduction to the ethical issues arising in business.  Hartman et al., focuses on real-world ethical decision making at both the personal and policy levels and provides students with a decision-making process that can be used in any situation. 
Practical applications throughout the text show how theories relate to the real world. The 4th edition features thoroughly updated statistics and coverage of timely issues and dilemmas throughout the text.
Laura Hartman earned her B.S. in social psychology at Tufts University and her J.D. at the University of Chicago. She is the director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy and clinical professor of business ethics in the Department of Organizational Behavior. She also serves as associate professor at the Kedge Business School in Marseille, France. She has been executive director and board chair of an elementary school in Haiti that provides leadership education to children living in poverty. A winner of the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions, Professor Hartman also was named one of one of Ethispheres 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and one of Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business. In addition, she continues to serve as an advisor to a number of startup companies.
Joe DesJardins is Professor in the philosophy department formed jointly by the College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University in Minnesota. He presently serves as the Executive Director of the Society for Business Ethics. Among his publications are: An Introduction to Business Ethics (McGraw-Hill), Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth), Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, co-editor, with John McCall, (Wadsworth) , and the forthcoming Business, Ethics, and Sustainability: Ethics for the Next Industrial Revolution (Prentice Hall). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and taught for many years at Villanova University before moving to Minnesota.
Chris MacDonald of Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada, is an associate professor and director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre and teaches in the Rogers School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics. His peer-reviewed publications range across business ethics, professional ethics, bioethics, the ethics of technology, and moral philosophy, and he is coauthor of the best-selling textbook, The Power of Critical Thinking. He is cofounder and coeditor of the Business Ethics Journal Review and the news and commentary aggregator site Business Ethics Highlights. He is perhaps best known for his highly respected blog, The Business Ethics Blog.
