Associate Professor of Management

Room 255B COBA
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-5761/6072
Email: Oliver.F.Williams.80@nd.edu

Rev. Oliver Williams, C.S.C. (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1974) is Academic-Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business. He is especially interested in understanding how the ethics of virtue might inform the ethical conduct of managers. His research and writing also focus on the problem of South African apartheid. His publications include The Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World (Notre Dame 1997), Catholic Social Thought and the New World Order: Building On One Hundred Years, co-edited with John Houck (Notre Dame 1993), and The Apartheid Crisis: How Can We Do Justice in a Land of Violence (Harper & Row 1986). He has published articles on business ethics in journals including Theology Today, Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Horizons. He is chair of the Board of Directors of the United States-South Africa Leadership Development Program (USSALEP), which is dedicated to the development of black leadership in all sections of South Africa. Each May-June he teaches a graduate course in Cape Town, South Africa. He has been a fellow of the Kroc Institute since 1998.

Recent Publications by Rev. Oliver Williams, C.S.C.

With S. Prakesh Sethi, Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business: The South African Experience and International Codes Today (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) (Published in hardbound in 2000 by Kluwer Academic Press, Cambridge, MA) [Abstract]

 

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