Ann Tenbrunsel

Ann E. Tenbrunsel is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision-making, examining why employees, leaders, and students behave unethically despite their best intentions to the contrary.

Tenbrunsel is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books on this topic—including Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do About It (with Max Bazerman), Behavioral Business Ethics: Shaping an Emerging Field (with David De Cremer), and Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research Into Business Ethics (with David Messick)—and more than 50 research articles and chapters. Her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC and National Public Radio, and adaptations, excerptions, and references to her work have appeared in The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Washington Post, and Investor's Business Daily, among other outlets.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Tenbrunsel holds a Ph.D. and MBA from Northwestern University. Prior to entering higher education, she worked as an engineer for S.C. Johnson & Son and as a sales and marketing consultant for ZS Associates.