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Edward Freeman    

Professor & Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business

R Edward Freeman is University Professor, Olsson Professor, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award-winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest book is "The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-offs", with Bidhan Parmar and Kirsten Martin, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020. He has received six honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from: Radboud University in the Netherlands; Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain; the Hanken School of Economics, and Tampere University in Finland; Sherbrooke University in Canada; and, Leuphana University in Germany, for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. He is the host of "The Stakeholder Podcast", sponsored by Stakeholder Media, LLC.

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