Michelle Rene Darnell
Clinical Professor, Director of Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Director of Honor and Integrity
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 211D Business
Phone Number
814-867-1845
Email Address
mzd560@psu.edu
Michelle Rene Darnell
Clinical Professor, Director of Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Director of Honor and Integrity
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 211D Business
Phone Number
814-867-1845
Email Address
mzd560@psu.edu
Dr. Michelle R. Darnell is Director of the newly endowed Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, where she also serves as the college’s Honor and Integrity Director and teaches courses in her role as a Clinical Professor in Management. Dr. Darnell’s primary focus is on creating and sustaining practical initiatives that actively engage and bring together University stakeholders with the intent of supporting responsible business activity.
With more than 20 years of experience working in higher education, Dr. Darnell has extensive experience teaching courses on Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Organizational Behavior, as well as creating and implementing co-curricular experiential learning activities for students to develop ethical leadership skills.
In addition to her work at various universities, Dr. Darnell also has worked as an independent consultant for business and government entities that are looking to resolve ethical issues or provide employee centered workshops on ethical decision making and building ethical organizational cultures.
Education
PDBP, Management, University of Florida, 2008
Ph D, Philosophy, Purdue University, 2004
MA, Philosophy, Purdue University, 2001
BA, Biology and Philosophy, The University of San Diego, 1998
Courses Taught
MGMT 497 – Special Topics (Variable)
MGMT 451 – Business, Ethics, and Society (3)
Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, and economic responsibilities of those who must make and execute challenging business decisions and manage others who do. The course focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a leader in business must have in order to navigate the intersection of business, ethics and society. This includes prescriptive frameworks for ethical decision making, an understanding of how people actually make ethical and unethical decisions, strategies for creating and sustaining ethical cultures, and practice addressing real and hypothetical challenges to responsible leadership in business.
MGMT 451W – Bus Eth and Soc (3)
Advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, economic, equity, environmental, public policy, and political influences on managerial DECISIONS AND STRATEGIES. MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society (3) Focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a manager must have in order to deal with the social, legal, ethical, and political demands in society. Ecological, ethical, and public policy dimensions of various managerial decisions are examined.
MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (2)
MGMT 496 – Indep Studies (Variable)
Selected Publications
Themed issue on Societal Impact: Preparing Purpose-Driven Leaders.