About IHMA

Dr. Consuelo García de la Torre is a full-time research professor at EGADE Business School Monterrey, member of the SNI National Research System of Mexico (SNI1), and researcher at the Strategic Research Group in Social Innovation. She holds a Ph.D. in Administración from HEC University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and a Master’s Degree in Management at the Lovaina-la- Nueva en Bélgica University.

Dr. Consuelo García de la Torre’s fields of expertise include: Sustainability; Ethics and Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurship; Social Responsibility; Consumer Behaviour; Marketing Strategy and International Marketing; Social Marketing; Global Management; Industrial Psychology; Management and Humanism; Intercultural Negotiations.

Ricardo Aguado holds a BA in Economic and Business Science from the University of Deusto and a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of the Basque Country. He is currently Lecturer and Researcher with PhD at the University of Deusto, where he teaches at the Bilbao campus. He teaches BA courses in Business Administration and Management and Executive MBA Master’s degree courses. Specifically, he teaches the following BA subjects: Spanish and World Economy, Microeconomics and Economics and International Relations, and the following post-graduate subjects: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy. His publications mainly focus on economic, environmental and social sustainability, and sustainability of competitiveness and economic development. He is part of the Business Competitiveness and Economic Development research group (CEDE). Other areas of research interest include Economic Development and Catholic Social Thought.

David M. Wasieleski is the Chair of the Management and Marketing Department and Professor of Management & Business Ethics in the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University. His academic research focuses on natural science approaches to understanding ethical decision-making and the formation of social contracts within organizational contexts. He also studies cognitive biases on decision-making and behavior in workplace environments.

At Duquesne, he teaches business ethics, organizational behavior, and public affairs.He currently serves as Associate Editor for Business and Society and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics Education, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Moral Psychology. As a member of the Academy of Management, he reviews papers for the Organizational Behavior Division, the Social Issues in Management Division, and the Management and Organization Cognition Division. He served as Chair of the Book Award Committee of the SIM Division (2008-2009), and was Chair of the Membership Committee of the SIM Division (2009).

Erica L. Steckler is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Robert J. Manning School of Business (MSB) and Co-Director of the Donahue Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College.

Her recent research focuses on stakeholder perceptions of organizational authenticity within the global domains of sustainability and corporate responsibility. Situated at the intersection of organizational theory, strategic management, and social innovation, this work builds on and extends theories of organizational identity, institutional theory, and social change.

The recipient of the 2015 Best Dissertation Award by the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division, her work has been published in the Journal of Business of Ethics, Business and Society Review, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Humanistic Management Journal, and in edited volumes. She has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Review (AMR) and is currently a Research Fellow at the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. She is the Founding President of the US Humanistic Management Association (US HMA) and sits on the Advisory Board of the International Humanistic Management Association (IHMA).

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Ernestina Giudici is full professor in Economics and Business Management at the Department of Economics and Business Sciences in University of Cagliari. Her research focuses mainly on issues related to business communication, storytelling and digital storytelling, humanistic management, sustainability and neurotourism.

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Dr. Osmar Arandia majored in Business Administration at the Monterrey Campus of ITESM. He graduated in 1993. Subsequently, he earned a Master’s degree in Marketing from the EGADE Business School in 2011. He holds a doctoral degree in Management Sciences from the Business School, which he was awarded in 2012. His specialty is Strategy and Social Responsibility and the title o his thesis is “Humanistic Management: A case study from the Steel industry”. His research interests focus on social responsibility, business ethics, and humanistic management.

As regards his professional trajectory, Osmar has held the positions of Academic Director of Administration at UDEM. He has also been the Director of Strategic Development at the UCC, and the Coordinator for Business graduate degree programs at that institution.

In industry, he has held senior posts in the commercial and marketing areas of several companies, in both the industry and services sectors.

Michael Pirson is a father of three young sons. He is an Associate Professor of Management, Global Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship at Fordham University and Research Fellow at Harvard University. He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is the editor of the Journal of Humanistic Management. Michael is a full member of the Club of Rome, an international think-tank which acts as “a global catalyst for change.”