Kirk Hanson

Kirk Hanson is Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he taught in the executive and MBA programs for 23 years, and retired University Professor at Santa Clara University where he headed the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics for 17 years. He is the author of a twice-monthly free newsletter "Ethics Megatrends" and has worked in the field of corporate responsibility and business ethics since 1967. He has written on the corporate management of social, environmental, and ethical initiatives and most recently on the history of business responsibility. He has advised more than 100 businesses, non-profits, and government organizations on responsible management and ethics initiatives and spent 17 years on the board of the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He has received two honorary degrees and has been honored by the Aspen Institute's Business & Society Program. He lives in Silicon Valley in California.