Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships

Patricia H. Werhane is the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Chair of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and also hold a joint appointment as the Callista Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, at DePaul University. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College, an Arthur Andersen Fellow at the Judge Institute, Cambridge University, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.  She is the founding editor of Business Ethics Quarterly. Scott P. Kelley is Assistant Vice-President for Vincentian Scholarship in the Office of Mission and Values at DePaul University. He has also served as a research fellow at the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, teaching courses in Business Ethics. He has taught in Tokyo, Japan and Pohnpei, Micronesia. Laura P. Hartman is a Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in the Management Department at DePaul University’s College of Commerce and is also Research Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.  She has served as the Gourlay Professor at the Melbourne Business School/Trinity College at the University of Melbourne (2007-2008), as an invited professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III and at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, among other European universities.  Dennis J. Moberg holds the Gerald F. and Bonita A. Wilkinson Chair of Management and Ethics in the Leavey School of Business and Administration at Santa Clara University. He is also a Scholar in the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at SCU and a Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California (2007-8).

Introduction  1. World Poverty in the 21st Century  2. Failed Strategies in the Alleviation of Poverty  3. Mental Models and Contributing Biases on Global Poverty  4. Narratives of Multinational For-Profit Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility  5. Global Poverty and Moral Imagination  6. Institutional Barriers, Moral Risk and Transformative Business Ventures  7. Public-Private Partnerships and other Hybrid Models for Poverty Alleviation  8. Future Prospects for Profitable Partnerships