Kenneth Goodpaster earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his A.M. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan.

His research has spanned a wide range of topics, from conceptual studies of ethical reasoning to empirical studies of the social implications of management decision making. This work led to three books:  Perspectives on Morality (1976), Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century (1979), and Regulation, Values and the Public Interest (1980).

He has published articles in a wide variety of professional journals, including the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Business Ethics, Thought, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Harvard Business Review.

Goodpaster taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy at the University of Notre Dame throughout the 1970s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. At Harvard, he taught both MBA candidates and executives and developed the second-year elective course, Ethical Aspects of Corporate Policy, as well as the first-year required module, Managerial Decision Making and Ethical Values (1989). He also authored two textbooks, Ethics in Management (1984) and Policies and Persons: A Casebook in Business Ethics (First Edition 1985, Second Edition 1991, Third Edition 1998). The new Fourth Edition, entitled Business Ethics: Policies and Persons, along with the Instructor’s Manual on CD Rom, is available from McGraw-Hill (2006). 

In the fall of 1989, Goodpaster accepted the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, while continuing as Visiting Professor at Harvard through June of 1990. At St. Thomas, he teaches in undergraduate, MBA and executive educational programs including a Great Books Seminar for graduate students in business. He has also developed and taught an interactive online course in business ethics for MBA students. His newest book, Conscience and Corporate Culture (Blackwell Publishers, 2007) was released during the summer of 2006.

Goodpaster sits on the editorial boards of numerous journals in the field of business ethics, and has been active with the Caux Round Table, the Minneapolis-based Center for Ethical Business Cultures, the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE) and the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

Goodpaster's wife Harriet is a software engineer. They have three children (ages 36, 34, and 20) and live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

For more information, please contact:

Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Ph.D.
Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics
Opus College of Business
University of St. Thomas
1000 LaSalle Avenue, TMH331
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2005
USA

Phone: (651) 962-4211
Fax: (651) 962-4208
E-mail: kegoodpaster@stthomas.edu 
Website: www.stthomas.edu/ethics