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

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; Oxford University; Wellesley College

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

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Book Notes Editor, Business Ethics Quarterly

Representative Publications
“Justice in Production.” The Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming).

“Maximization, Incomparability, and Managerial Choice.” Business Ethics Quarterly (forthcoming).

“Is Incomparability a Problem for Anyone?" Economics and Philosophy 23.1: 65-80 (2007).

(with Alan Strudler and David Wasserman)
“The Numbers Problem.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 34.4: 352-372 (2006).