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WORK TITLE: The Diplomat in the Corner Office
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https://kelley.iu.edu/facultyglobal/directory/FacultyProfile.cfm?netid=timfort * http://www.corporate-ethics.org/timothy-fort/ * http://www.corporate-ethics.org/pdf/cv-Fort.pdf
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670 __ |a Law and religion, 1987: |b CIP t.p. (Timothy L. Fort) data sheet (b. 8-29-58)
670 __ |a Vision of the firm, its governance, obligations, and aspirations, 2014: |b t.p. (Timothy L. Fort) back cover (Eveleigh chair in business ethics, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University)
670 __ |a The diplomat in the corner office, 2015: |b ECIP title page (Timothy L. Fort) ECIP data view (born 1958; email: timfort@indiana.edu)
670 __ |a Kelley School of Business WWW site, March 16, 2015: |b page of Tim Fort (Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics; downloadable CV lists publications including Law and religion)
670 __ |a Business law, 2015: |b title page (Timothy Fort) page vii (PhD from Northwestern University where he also received his JD; holds M.A. and B.A. from the University of Notre Dame)
PERSONAL
Born August 29, 1958.
EDUCATION:University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1980, M.A., 1984; Northwestern University, J.D., 1983, Ph.D., 1995.
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CAREER
Academic and lawyer. Fort, Fort & Hennenfent, partner, 1984-88; Monmouth College, instructor, 1986-88; Burke, Wilson & McIlvaine, associate, 1988-89; Loyola University Chicago, senior lecturer, 1988-94; University of Michigan Business School, assistant professor, 1994-2001, associate professor, 2001-05; Ross School of Business, professor, 2005; George Washington University, Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics, professor of strategic management and public policy, 2005-2013, associate dean of undergraduate programs and chair of Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, 2011-12, Institute for Corporate Responsibility, executive director, 2006-13; George Washington University Law School, lecturer, 2006-13; Indiana University, Bloomington, Kelley School of Business, Eveleigh Professor in Business Ethics, 2013-.
Also serves as faculty fellow for the Business Roundtable Ethics Institute. Additionally serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, and American Business Law Journal.
AWARDS:Named Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; three Outstanding National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; six Distinguished National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; two Ralphe Bunche Awards for Best International Paper, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; Holmes-Cardozo Award for best overall conference paper, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; Ralph Hoeber Award for Research Excellence, Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
WRITINGS
Contributor to business and academic journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Business & Professional Ethics, Notre Dame Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Cornell International Law Journal, American Business Law Journal, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy.
SIDELIGHTS
Timothy L. Fort, born on August 29, 1958, is an academic and lawyer. Early in his career he worked as partner and associate at two law firms. He became a senior lecturer at Loyola University Chicago in 1988 and then, in 1994, took various positions at the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor. In 2005, Fort took a position at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., as Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics. Then, in 2006, he became a professor at George Washington University Law School and executive director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility at George Washington University Business School. He also worked from 2011 to 2012 as associate dean of undergraduate programs and chair of Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. Fort moved on to Indiana University, Bloomington, and became Eveleigh Professor in Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business in 2013.
In addition to being named an Outstanding Junior Faculty Member by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, he was awarded him three Outstanding National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, six Distinguished National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, two Ralphe Bunche Awards for best International Paper, a Holmes-Cardozo Award for best overall conference paper, and a Ralph Hoeber Award for Research Excellence.
Fort has published academic and business articles in a number of journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Business & Professional Ethics, Notre Dame Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Cornell International Law Journal, American Business Law Journal, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, and American Business Law Journal. Fort published his first book, Law and Religion, in 1987.
In 2001 Fort published Ethics and Governance: Business as Mediating Institution, his second book. With coauthor Cindy A. Schipani, he published The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies in 2004. Business, Integrity, and Peace: Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries was subsequently published in 2007. Fort also published the textbook Vision of the Firm: Its Governance, Obligations, and Aspirations: A Textbook on the Ethics of Organization in 2014.
Prophets, Profits, and Peace
In 2008 Fort published Prophets, Profits, and Peace: The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance. The book proposes that corporations can play a role in creating world peace by promoting religious tolerance. Fort outlines the historical anxiety between business, religion, and attaining peace and presents his argument to those who adhere to virtue-based ethics and communitarian social theory.
Writing in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, R.F. White “recommended” the account, noting that it would be “worthwhile” for libraries to make available a copy. White suggested that the book is “very useful” for instructors of classes in virtue-based ethics, business and society, communitarian social theory, religion, and peace studies. White labeled Prophets, Profits, and Peace as “a well-crafted introduction to a small but growing area of scholarly research.”
The Diplomat in the Corner Office
Fort published The Diplomat in the Corner Office: Corporate Foreign Policy in 2015. Fort takes on corporate social responsibility in this text, approaching it again from the perspective that businesses must play a role in fostering world peace in addition to efforts made by governments and politicians. Fort claims that companies that have a large international footprint need to take a larger share of responsibilities in localized peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building. Fort lists the need to refuse to follow local culture of corruption as a means to support the rule of law. By combining ethics and economics, Fort insists that this practice is merely a continuation of the policies outlined by Friedrich Hayek, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith. The book also comes with a number of case studies of how businesses took specific action to promote peace in their own ways. In a review in Choice, T.R. Gillespie pointed out that the author “offers a new and compelling perspective on” the question of the extent to which a business owes to society at large. Ultimately, Gillespie “highly recommended” The Diplomat in the Corner Office, particularly for academics, researchers, and graduate students.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February 1, 2009, R.F. White, review of Prophets, Profits, and Peace: The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance, p. 1144; April 1, 2016, T.R. Gillespie, review of The Diplomat in the Corner Office: Corporate Foreign Policy, p. 1205.
ONLINE
Corporate Ethics, http://www.corporate-ethics.org/ (March 18, 2017), author profile.
Indiana University Web site, https://www.iu.edu/ (March 18, 2017), author profile.
Tim Fort
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Contact Information
Email
(812) 855-1590
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics
Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics
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Bloomington
Education
PhD, Northwestern University, 1995
JD, Northwestern University, 1983
MA, University of Notre Dame, 1984
BA, University of Notre Dame, 1980
Professional Experience
George Washington University, Professor
University of Michigan, Professor
Business Roundtable Ethics Institute, Faculty Fellow
William Davidson Institute, Faculty Fellow
Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct Professor and Director of Major and Planned Gifts
Monmouth College, Instructor
Burke, Wilson, Associate
Fort, Fort & Hennengent, Partner
Awards, Honors & Certifications
Best Book Award Nomination: Academy of Management (2013)
Peter Vail Award Nominee for Outstanding Doctoral Faculty (2013, 2012, 2011, 2009)
Academy of Management SIM Division Best Book Award (for Business, Integrity, and Peace) (2010)
George Washington University Office of Service Learning Faculty Award (2009)
Outstanding Faculty For George Washington University Executive MBA Program (2007)
Best Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of The Society for Business Ethics (with D. Hess & R. McWhorter) (2005)
Best Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (with N. Shami, N. Bos, and M. Gordon) (2004)
Faculty Pioneer Award for Academic Achievement from the World Resources Institute and The Aspen Institute (2003)
Distinguished Conference Proceedings Award, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (with C. Schipani) (2002)
Holmes-Cardozo Award, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (with E. Callahan, T. Dworkin, and C. Schipani) (2001)
Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Paper in International Business Law, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, International Law Section (with J. Liu) (2001)
Bank One Corporation Assistant Research Professor, University of Michigan Business School (2000)
Outstanding Conference Proceedings Paper, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2000)
Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Paper in International Business Law, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, International Law Section (2000)
Professional Interests
Ethical Decision Making, Building Ethical Corporate Culture, The Impact of Religion on Sustainable Peace, The Intersection of Religion and Business
Background
Timothy Fort holds the Everleigh Chair in Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He previously held the Lindner-Gambal Chair in Business Ethics at the George Washington University School of Business from 2005-2013. There, he founded and served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and was Academic Director for the STAR EMBA Program. While at GW, he also served as Interim Dean for the Undergraduate Program and Department Chair of Strategic Management and Public Policy. From 1994-2005 he was a professor at the University of Michigan where he also held the Bank One Assistant Professorship of Business Administration. His primary research identity pertains to issues of ethical corporate culture and the relationship between ethical business and sustainable peace. He has authored four major books (Oxford University Press, 2001; Cambridge University Press 2003 with Cindy Schipani); a solely authored with Cambridge in 2007, and Yale University Press in 2008). His Business, Integrity and Peace won the Best Book Award from the Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Business Section. He currently is working on fifth book on the topic with Stanford University Press: Diplomat in the Corner Office. He is currently writing two textbooks for West Publishing, one on Business Law with Northwestern University Law School’s Stephen Presser and a solely authored textbook on Business Ethics. Fort holds his PhD from Northwestern University where he also received his JD. His M.A. and B.A. are from the University of Notre Dame. He has received research awards from The Academy of Management, the Society of Business Ethics, and The Academy of Legal Studies of Business and has served on the editorial board of The Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, and The American Business Law Journal. He has authored more than seventy academic articles, book chapters, and reviews.
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Timothy Fort (vitae, pdf)
Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
tim_fort_indiana_universityTimothy L. Fort is Eveleigh Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Business Law and Ethicsat Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and an Academic Advisor for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.
Formerly, Fort was the Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics at George Washington University Business School. Prior to his tenure at George Washington University he served as an Associate Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics at the University of Michigan. In 2003, he was given the Award for Academic Leadership by the Beyond Grey Pinstripes report. This report, constructed by the Aspen Institute and the World Resources Institute is the most prominent ratings initiative for corporate responsibility and Professor Fort was recognized for his leadership in academic research and pedagogy. In addition to this award, he is the former holder of the Bank One Corporation Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. In 1998, he was named the Outstanding Junior Faculty Member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (“ALSB”). The ALSB has awarded him, individually or with co-authors, three Outstanding National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, six Distinguished National Conference Proceeding Paper Awards, two Ralphe Bunche Awards for best International Paper, a Holmes-Cardozo Award for best overall conference paper, and a Ralph Hoeber Award for Research Excellence.
His co-author of the The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. He has authored two other books to be published later this year: 21st Century Corporate Responsibility; Beyond Disciplinary and Geopolitical Boundaries from Cambridge University Press and Profits, Prophets, and Passion: Globalization’s Amplification of the Uneasy Relationship Between Religion and Business from Yale University Press
Oxford University Press published his book, Ethics and Governance: Business as Mediating Institution, in 2001. His work has also appeared in Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Business & Professional Ethics, Notre Dame Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Cornell International Law Journal, American Business Law Journal, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. He serves on the editorial boards of The Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, and American Business Law Journal.
With Professor Cindy Schipani, he launched a Corporate Governance and Peace Initiative through the William Davidson Institute. He formerly served as co-Director of the Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Area of the Davidson Institute and as co-Director of the Michigan Business School’s Center for Corporate Governance and Sustainable Peace. His presentation of his research and business on sustainable peace was used by The World Bank as a video program delivered to participants of the 2003 meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has also facilitated an interactive, Internet-base dialogue and education program concerning the extent to which businesses can contribute to sustainable peace and has offered two programs already with the World Bank on the topic of business and peace.
His work focuses on the legal and ethical frameworks necessary to regularize ethical business behavior with particular attention to how businesses can be constructed as communal “mediating institutions” that match neurobiological human capabilities with communal sizes necessary for enhancing ethical behavior, how a teleological goal of sustainable peace is a realistic contribution for businesses and an orienting mission that requires responsible business behavior, and finally, how commercialization of technology and science raises new sets of challenges for ethical business behavior enhancing even further the need for businesses to be mediating institutions with an ultimate aim of contributing for sustainable global security.
Fort, Timothy L.: The diplomat in the corner office:
corporate foreign policy
T.R. Gillespie
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1205.
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The question of what, if anything, business in general or a business entity in particular owes to society has been debated by those interested in
corporate social responsibility at least since the mid-1970s. Fort (business ethics and law, Indiana Univ.) offers a new and compelling perspective
on this question. He argues that the promotion of peace should not be left solely to politicians. Instead, multinational business enterprises should
take a leadership role in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building in the countries in which they do business. For example, a corporation
should adhere to its contractual obligations and refuse to succumb to local government corruption, thus affirming the rule of law in that country.
This promotes peace because nations that follow the rule of law are less likely to succumb to internal strife and civil war. Fort demonstrates how
this type of "gentle commerce," a marriage of ethics and economics, actually rests on principles expounded by Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek,
Immanuel Kant, and others. Fort includes in the book case studies of specific businesses that have made strategic decisions to promote peace.
Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.--T. R. Gillespie, Northwest University
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Fort, Timothy L.: Prophets, profits, and peace, the positive
role of business in promoting religious tolerance
R. F. White
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Fort, Timothy L. Prophets, profits, and peace, the positive role of business in promoting religious tolerance. Yale, 2008. 206p bibl index afp ISBN
9780300114676, $35.00
Fort (executive director, Institute for Corporate Responsibility; business ethics, George Washington Univ.) argues that corporations can play a
positive role in promoting religious tolerance and, by implication, help foster world peace. Although this thesis sounds profoundly naive, the
author fully acknowledges the historical tensions among religion, business, and peace. Receptivity to his argument will depend on one's
philosophical orientation. Theorists with a penchant for communitarian social theory (especially small group communitarianism) and virtue-based
ethics will be more receptive than those committed to liberalism and duty-based or utilitarian ethics. Most business ethicists will find the issue to
be tangential to their normal teaching content and will be reluctant to assign this rather narrowly specialized work. However, those who teach
more general courses in communitarian social theory, virtue-based ethics, religion, business and society, or peace studies will find it very useful.
A well-crafted introduction to a small but growing area of scholarly research and a worthwhile acquisition for libraries that serve liberal arts
programs hoping to integrate social and political philosophy, religion, and business. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Upper-division
undergraduate through professional collections.--R. F. White, College of Mount St. Joseph
White, R. F.
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