PROF. MICHAEL A. SANTORO
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Michael A. Santoro is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Business Environment Department at the Rutgers Business School in Newark, NJ, and a faculty member of the Rutgers Center for Global Change and Governance. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, a J.D. from New York University, and an A.B. from Oberlin College.
TEACHING
Prof. Santoro teaches MBA courses on the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Global Business, the Ethical and Legal Aspects of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Business Ethics, Business Law, and an undergraduate course on Business, Government and Society. In the 2001-02 academic year, he served as a GE Teaching Fellow. Prof. Santoro was an Adjunct Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he taught courses in ethics and economics.
FORTHCOMING BOOK ON THE PHAMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Prof. Santoro is the editor of
Ethics and the Pharmaceutical
Industry: Business, Government, Professional and Advocacy Perspectives
(Cambridge 2005), a forthcoming
book on ethical and public policy issues in the
pharmaceutical industry. His co-editor is Dr. Thomas M. Gorrie,
Corporate
Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy at Johnson & Johnson. The
book attempts to grapple with controversial social issues such as clinical research ethics, the
global aids crisis, and drug marketing and pricing. The chapters are
written by leading figures from NGOs, industry, government, the medical
community, and academia. Contributors include Martin Delaney of Project
Inform, Dr. Delon Human of the World Medical Association, Dr.
Juhana E. Idänpään-Heikkilä of the
Council for
International
Organizations of Medical Sciences, Dr.
William Foege of the Gates Foundation, Dr. Valentine Burroughs of the
National Medical Association, Dr. Greg Koski of Harvard Medical School, and
Congressman Rush Holt.
PUBLICATIONS
Prof. Santoro’s book Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China (Cornell 2000) has been praised in The New York Times Book Review , Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. His writings have appeared, among other places, in Business Ethics Quarterly, the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Human Rights Quarterly, Current History, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, Business & the Contemporary World, the Harvard Journal of World Affairs, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change. As a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, he wrote or co-authored nearly thirty case studies and teaching notes on ethical and legal topics such as global protection of intellectual property, insider trading, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. He is a member of the Society for Business Ethics and was an invited speaker at the American Bar Association Conference on Professionalism in the 21st Century. He was the recipient of research grant from the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business.
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CHINA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Prof.
Santoro
testified before the United States Senate Finance Committee on the human rights
implications of
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. He has also
been a featured
speaker on human rights at Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, and Tufts Universities, as well
as at the Brookings
Institution, the Economic Strategy Institute,
the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Asia Society.
He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hong
Kong during the 1993-94 academic year and he travels frequently to Asia.
In the summers, he has taught executive MBA
courses in Shanghai and Beijing.
ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY
Prof. Santoro consults and lectures about ethics for numerous non-governmental organizations, global companies, and corporate law firms. Prior to entering academe, Prof. Santoro practiced law. He is am member of the Rutgers University Sustainability Committee, a faculty-student-administrative initiative to develop criteria and public reporting procedures so that the University can responsibly account for and improve its effects on human rights, the environment, the urban community, and other social concerns. During law school he was a clerk at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. He was summer associate at Shearman & Sterling and an associate at Webster & Sheffield. He has been the General Counsel of BioTechnica International in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first publicly-held biotechnology companies, and of Finevest (now Interlaken Capital) in Greenwich, Connecticut, a privately held venture firm.
Contact Info
Rutgers Business School, 111 Washington St., Newark, NJ 07102
973-353-5121
msantoro@andromeda.rutgers.edu
