Once again (for the 2nd year in a row) I’ve been recognized for my work on this blog by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.”
I am humbled, but gratified to know that my blog is seen as having an impact.
Here’s the listing: 2009’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN BUSINESS ETHICS.
Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is an educator, speaker, and consultant in the realm of business ethics. He teaches at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he is Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre.
Chris is former Interim Director of the Ted Rogers MBA at Ryerson.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics.
MacDonald is also co-author of the (free, online) Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
He is a "Most Viewed Writer" on Quora, for the topics Business Ethics, CSR, and Ethical Dilemmas.
Chris has three times been declared one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior", and has several times been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.
He is also co-founder of Choice Point Solutions, Inc., a small consultancy offering custom text-based simulations to help organizations train employees for better decision-making.
He has been writing The Business Ethics Blog since November of 2005.
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Congratulations Chris, you jumped from 81 to 61, way to go! I can still remember researching the seven sin industries for you. I enjoyed reading your blog then, as I do now, it’s nice to see you are getting recognition for it.
Garrett
congratulations Chris!! Well deserved. I read your blog with interest and enjoy your insights!
elaine
http://www.csr-reporting.blogspot.com
congrats chris! this now makes the prize that I have earned from your contest even more valuable 🙂
it’s always been though-provoking fun to read your posts!
Murat Sen
Congratulations! Well-deserved.
Hi Chris –
Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. As someone whose focus is on health system ethics, I’ve found your writings VERY useful and illuminating. Keep up the great work!
Best
Jim
Well deserved, Chris, for balanced and humble viewpoints that get us all thinking.
Thank you all for your kind words. The support and encouragement of folks like you is sincerely gratifying.
Best,
Chris.
Hi Professor MacDonald,
Hat tip to Mrs. M for pointing this story out on page C7 of today’s Chronicle-Herald. I’m delighted (and a little dismayed, 4 years of back posts to go through?) to discover a fellow battle-hardened blogger at St Mary’s. I’ve occasionally touched on business ethics myself, notably in this quite old effort, Moral Hazard & MBS (02 Oct 2006).
Way back before that there was this effort to perpetrate a bit of innovation on some Phama types, not to mention a comedy of errors that went from walking off with Prof Marshall’s coat after the ’09 Hsia’s awards to haranguing Chairman MacKinnon on the possibility of applying convolution to aesthetic supervenience. So Stanley Milgram would hardly need to take off his shoe to connect the dots between me and thee 😉
… all of which likely violates your house rule on concision and topicality, but if your patience is not yet exhausted perhaps I can offer to buy you a coffee at the new Atrium to make up for that and we could swap old war stories on the delights of blogging.
John McLeod, Halifax
Kudos Chris!
Congratulations, Chris… I always enjoy visiting your blog and noting its contents, including the feedback.
Maxwell Pinto, Business Author.