Nien-hê Hsieh Faculty Profile

Nien-hê Hsieh
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

PhD, Harvard University, 2000; MPhil, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 1994; BA, Swarthmore College, 1992

Research Areas
Ethics; distributive justice; managerial authority; corporate social responsibility; theories of value and choice

Recent Consulting
GlaxoSmithKline, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

Current Projects
The justified exercise of managerial authority; incommensurable values and justified choice; multinational corporations and the ethics of assistance

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2001-present. Previous appointment: Harvard University. Visiting appointments: Australian National University; Harvard University; Oxford University; Wellesley College

Other Positions
Philosophy Department Director, Wharton Ethics Program

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008; Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Fellowship, Harvard University, 2007-2008; Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2004

Representative Publications
“Workplace Democracy, Workplace Republicanism, and Economic Democracy,” Revue de Philosophie Économique (forthcoming). “Justice in Production,” The Journal of Political Philosophy 16: 1 (2008): 72-100. (with Alan Strudler and David Wasserman), “Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism,” Utilitas, 19: 4 (2007): 487-504.