About The Applied Ethics Group, LLC
The Applied Ethics Group draws on a corps of associate consultants who are specialists in various aspects of applied ethics, from business ethics to medical ethics. Depending on the needs of the client, Æ will assemble a team best suited to respond to the particular needs of that assignment. Some of the key team members are as follows:
Robert E. McNulty is the president and founder of The Applied Ethics Group, LLC.
Dr. McNulty is the director of programs at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, in Waltham, MA. He also teaches philosophy at Bentley. He holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and a Ph. D. in philosophy and education, also from Columbia. He worked for many years as an international business consultant specializing in applying communications programs to assist countries in their economic development efforts. He has also served as a consultant to many Fortune 500 and foreign based firms. For the last decade and a half, the focus of his work has been ethics, both in its theoretical and applied forms.
W. Michael Hoffman, Associate Consultant at The Applied Ethics Group, LLC, is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, a 30-year-old research and consulting institute and an educational forum on business ethics.
He is the Hieken Professor of Business and Professional Ethics at Bentley College and was Chair of the Department of Philosophy for 17 years. He has authored or edited 16 books, including Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality (now in its 4th edition) and Ethics Matters: How to Implement Values-Driven Management (2000) and published over 70 articles on business ethics and related topics.
Dr. Hoffman has consulted on business ethics for numerous corporations, universities and government agencies. He is on the board of editors of many business ethics journals, was a founding member and President of the Society for Business Ethics, and served on the advisory board of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He was the founding Executive Director of the Ethics Officer Association.
Dr. Hoffman received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1972 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Will O’Brien is executive with over 40 years experience in: service business management, change management, marketing, education, project management, Internet operations and management consulting.
He has managed dozens of successful consulting engagements and projects with national and global corporations. Since 2002, he has been teaching at Bentley College, McCallum Graduate School of Business and the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University such courses as: eSupport, Operations Management, Project Management, Management Decision-Making and Change Mangement.
Most recently, Will developed a graduate course for Bentley on “Business Sustainability”. As part of the course, student teams work with non-profits and municipalities to help them to “go green”. As the instructor, Will’s role is that of a coach with the objective of developing future business leaders to be environmental stewards.
He holds an BS in Mathematics from LeMoyne College, an MBA from State University of NY, a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.
Will’s mission now is to leverage his extensive experience to develop and help implement practical solutions for improving sustainability of corporate business practices.
Mark Rowe leverages his consulting expertise in business ethics and corporate responsibility (CR) with the insight gained from more than 10 years’ practice as a commercial lawyer.
He has advised major companies such as Eaton, El Paso Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble and Tyson Foods. He has helped numerous organizations enhance their ethics and compliance programs and corporate cultures, through improvements to codes of conduct, infrastructure, communications and training, and changes to corporate governance provisions. He has also advised on a range of CR issues, in Europe and the United States.
Originally from the U.K., Mr. Rowe came to the U.S. for research and consulting opportunities at the Center for Business Ethics (CBE) at Bentley College, where he is Senior Research Associate. He holds a law degree from the University of Exeter and a Graduate Certificate in Business Ethics from Bentley.
Mr. Rowe has provided analysis and comment for broadcast media and the press. He speaks regularly at conferences, has contributed to business ethics encyclopedias and published articles in a number of leading refereed journals and practitioner periodicals.