Professor Tibor Machan will discuss ethics, business and its implications for European competitiveness. Professor Machan has written numerous articles on this topic, including “Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment;” “Business Ethics in a Free Society;” “Professional Responsibilities of Corporate Managers;” and “Entrepreneurship and Ethics.”

Professor Tibor Machan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Auburn University; Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Professor of Business Ethics, Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University. He has lectured at Timbro (Sweden), the Institute for Economic Studies (Paris); the Univ. of Aix-en-Provence, France; and Franklin College (Switzerland).

Tibor Machan is editor of Business Ethics in the Global Market; the co-author of A Primer on Business Ethics and The Business of Commerce, Examining an Honorable Profession; and the author of Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society. He has coauthored and coedited Political Philosophy, Essential Selections, for Prentice-Hall.

Professor Machan has contributed to numerous scholarly journals, including the American Philosophical Quarterly; the Review of Metaphysics; Business and Professional Ethics Journal; the International Journal of Applied Ethics; and the International Journal of Social Economics. He has written columns for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.

Tibor Machan was smuggled out of Hungary in 1953, when he was 14 years old. After emigrating to the United States in 1956, he served in the U.S. Air Force and then earned B.A. (Claremont McKenna College), M.A. (New York University), and Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Barbara) degrees in philosophy.