Biography of Joseph Badaracco

Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA and a DBA.  He now teaches a second-year elective, The Moral Leader, and the first-year course Competition and Strategy.  Badaracco is also Faculty Chair for the MBA Elective Curriculum and the past chairman of the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility.

Professor Badaracco has taught in executive programs in the United States, Japan, and several other countries.  He is a director of Excelon Corporation and faculty chair of the Nomura School of Advanced Management in Tokyo.

In his first book, Loading the Dice, Badaracco compared business-government relations in five countries.  His next book was a study of ethics and business leadership, entitled Leadership and the Quest for Integrity.  Badaracco's subsequent research focused on international strategic alliances, and his findings were reported in The Knowledge Link, which Fortune magazine selected as one of the outstanding management books of 1991.  His most recent books are Business Ethics: Roles and Responsibilities and Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right. These books have been translated into nine languages.  His latest book, published in February 2002, is Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing.