
Nicole Zwieg Daly, J.D, Ed.D, CPPM
Executive Director & Adjunct Professor of Ethics & Business Law
Our mission: To manifest the lessons that the liberal arts have for principled business leadership; cultivate careers for the common good among students and other stakeholders; and, promote a purpose of business that prioritizes equitable human flourishing over private gain.
The Principled Leadership Research Fellows Program supports faculty members already engaged in original research projects to further amplify their potential to impact business practice as well as academic research and pedagogy.
Research projects across academic units, disciplines and methodologies will include topics related to the Opus College of Business’ Research Mission and Thought Leadership Aspiration on responsible and responsive business: The college aspires to be a leading voice in “responsible and responsive business” – a research agenda that explores the responsibility of business to its internal and external stakeholders and that addresses the active, responsive engagement of business in social issues and modern forces impacting society.
Chad Brinsfield, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Associate Professor
Management
Research project title:
What hinders manager voice endorsement: The role of voice type, manager dominance tendency, and manager perceived status threat.
Ameeta Jaiswal-Dale, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Associate Professor
Finance
Research project title:
Challenges and potential for community value creation through sustainable food entrepreneurship.
Shinwon Noh, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Assistant Professor
Entrpreneurship
Research project title:
Rise of Cultural Industries from Emerging Markets: Case of K-Pop 2.
The 2022 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee(s) will be announced January 2023! Stay tuned!
The Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Award was established in 2021 to honor Ken Melrose, namesake of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership and fervent champion of ethics and servant leadership as well as promote an aspirational vision of responsible and responsive leadership in practice.
The three inaugural awardees represent differing areas of ongoing service in a professional setting yet share a common commitment to purposefully and positively impacting the Twin Cities community. The awardees’ individual unique areas of focus help further illuminate business’s role in society not only as an economic driver but as a creator and enduring mechanism with the power to ensure a just, equitable, healthy society.
Please take a moment to view the video and listen to the podcast episode to learn more about each worthy awardee, their incredible passion and service to the common good.
Learn more about the 2021 awardees on the Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee Video and Podcast.
Under development. Coming Fall 2023.
The Principled Leadership Research Fellows Program supports faculty members already engaged in original research projects to further amplify their potential to impact business practice as well as academic research and pedagogy.
Research projects across academic units, disciplines and methodologies will include topics related to the Opus College of Business’ Research Mission and Thought Leadership Aspiration on responsible and responsive business: The college aspires to be a leading voice in “responsible and responsive business” – a research agenda that explores the responsibility of business to its internal and external stakeholders and that addresses the active, responsive engagement of business in social issues and modern forces impacting society.
Chad Brinsfield, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Associate Professor
Management
Research project title:
What hinders manager voice endorsement: The role of voice type, manager dominance tendency, and manager perceived status threat.
Ameeta Jaiswal-Dale, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Associate Professor
Finance
Research project title:
Challenges and potential for community value creation through sustainable food entrepreneurship.
Shinwon Noh, Ph.D
Opus College of Business Assistant Professor
Entrpreneurship
Research project title:
Rise of Cultural Industries from Emerging Markets: Case of K-Pop 2.
The 2022 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee(s) will be announced January 2023! Stay tuned!
The Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Award was established in 2021 to honor Ken Melrose, namesake of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership and fervent champion of ethics and servant leadership as well as promote an aspirational vision of responsible and responsive leadership in practice.
The three inaugural awardees represent differing areas of ongoing service in a professional setting yet share a common commitment to purposefully and positively impacting the Twin Cities community. The awardees’ individual unique areas of focus help further illuminate business’s role in society not only as an economic driver but as a creator and enduring mechanism with the power to ensure a just, equitable, healthy society.
Please take a moment to view the video and listen to the podcast episode to learn more about each worthy awardee, their incredible passion and service to the common good.
Learn more about the 2021 awardees on the Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee Video and Podcast.
Under development. Coming Fall 2023.
As co-editors for the Books (& More) Review section of the Journal of Business Ethics, Michaelson and Zwieg Daly accepted their first reviews published in Winter 2021. Unique to academic convention, these reviews, which are ordinarily available only to academic subscribers, will be freely available to the business community and general public for eight weeks in an effort to continue bridging the academic and practitioner communities.
The Journal of Business Ethics publishes reviews of scholarly books as well as relevant nonfiction, fiction, documentaries, films, plays, television shows, art exhibits, and so on that advance dialogue between scholars and the public about business ethics and society. In addition to answering the question, "Is this book/film, etc. worth reading/viewing?", these reviews should answer the question, "What ideas or questions will this book/film, etc. illuminate for anyone with an interest in business ethics?"
Previous reviews:
Mejia, S., Nikolaidis, D. Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. J Bus Ethics 178, 303–306 (2022).
Filabi, A. Review of Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar. J Bus Ethics 173, 229–231 (2021).
Du, S. Reimagining the Future of Technology: “The Social Dilemma” Review. J Bus Ethics 177, 213–215 (2022).
Kim, T.W. Flawed Like Us and the Starry Moral Law: Review of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. J Bus Ethics 170, 875–879 (2021).
The Center's podcast, Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have time to think, and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like “a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Listen below:
Episode 13: Klara and the Sun: A conversation about the nature of intelligence and the costs (and benefits) of progress. Our second season kicks off with host Michaelson and two guests: The book reviewer, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business Assistant Professor, Santiago Meija, and University of St. Thomas Associate Professor of Marketing & Academic Director of Business in a Digital World, Lisa Abendroth. Michaelson, Meija and Abendroth discuss the book Klara and the Sun written by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. Klara and the Sun is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF), with incredible observational qualities of humans and humanity; designed to learn and subsequently imitate human behavior, Klara is bought, sold, and tossed into serving as a friend for a girl. While discussing the book's plot, Michaelson, Meija and Abendroth examine its underlying themes including the nature of intelligence, the cost of progress, and the identification and value of "real" relationships.
Episode 12: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part three. Michaelson and Van Buren are joined by Joanne Ciulla, Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School, and Doug Lepisto, Associate Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy at Western Michigan University Haworth College of Business, to discuss how to distinguish essential from non-essential workers in an intersected global economy as well as how businesses should attract and retain workers during and after the Great Resignation. (July 2022).
Episode 11: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part two. Michaelson and Van Buren are joined by MayKao Y. Hang, University of St. Thomas Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Founding Dean Morrison Family College of Health, to discuss how businesses can support or harm public health as well as better understand the tensions healthcare businesses face simultaneously advancing profitability and increasing access to care. (July 2022).
Episode 10: What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part one. Michaelson and Harry Van Buren, III, Barbara & David A. Koch Endowed Chair of Business Ethics, are joined by Alison Taylor, Executive Director Ethical Systems at NYU Stern School of Business, and Ed Freeman, University of Virgina Darden School of Business Elis & Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society, to discuss profit and price-gouging during the pandemic and to what extent the cost of doing business has been externalized onto stakeholders. (July 2022).
Episode 9: What is the purpose of work? A discussion with Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO & author of The Heart of Business (June 2022).
Episode 8: 2021 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardees (January 2022).
Episode 7: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A conversation about finding redemption at work and in life with Guthrie Theater Artistic Director, Joe Haj, and playwright Lavina Jadhwani (November 2021).
Episode 6: Twenty years after 9/11 Part Three: A conversation with Jackie Zins & Stacy Pervall, former representatives of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (September 2021).
Episode 5: Twenty years after 9/11 Part Two: A conversation with Fred Price, managing director at Piper Sandler (September 2021).
Episode 4: Twenty years after 9/11 Part One: A conversation about meaningful work with Jen Tosti-Kharas (September 2021).
Episode 3: Who is Capitalism? A conversation about Homeland Elegies with Ayad Akhtar and Azish Filabi (August, 2021).
Episode 2: What is the Dilemma in the Social Dilemma? A conversation about Netflix's Popular Documentary with Shuili Du and Lisa Abendroth (June, 2021).
Episode 1: All About AI Ethics: A conversation about Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me with Tae Wan Kim (April, 2021).
Please find below academic and popular press publications by the Center team as well as members of the Opus College of Business Principled Leadership Working Group.
Building upon its forty-year foundation as the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership (renamed in 2020) honors the legacy of former CEO of The Toro Company Ken Melrose thanks to the generous financial commitments of The Toro Company and The Hoffman Family Foundation.
Melrose was a fervent champion for ethics and servant leadership. He served as chairman of the center's advisory board, held the university's Holloran Endowed Professorship and was a popular lecturer on business ethics and leadership.
Laura Dunham, Dean of the Opus College of Business
Peter Frosch, President & Chief Executive Officer Greater MSP
Maija Garcia, Director of Education & Professional Training Guthrie Theater and Director of Organic Magnetics
Michael Garrison, Senior Associate Dean Opus College of Business and Professor of Ethics & Business Law
MayKao Hang, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Founding Dean of the Morrison Family College of Health
Tony Heredia, Senior Vice President Compliance & Ethics Target Corporation and Bush Foundation Board Chair
Mike Hoffman, retired Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of The Toro Company
Katie Lawler, Senior Vice President & Global Chief Ethics Officer US Bank
Karyn McCoy, Associate Vice President Alumni, Career & Corporate Engagement
Judson McNeil, President of The Toro Company Foundation
Theresa Ricke-Kiely, Executive Director Center for the Common Good
Hank Shea, Senior Distinguished Fellow St. Thomas School of Law
John Sullivan, Executive Vice President & General Counsel Carlson, Inc. and Minneapolis Foundation Board Chair
Executive Director & Adjunct Professor of Ethics & Business Law
Academic Director & Professor of Ethics & Business Law
Dr. Christopher MichaelsonExecutive Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Ethics & Business Law
Dr. Susan Supina