About Lanark Press
Lanark Press was launched in 2020 by two professors at major American business schools, Marc J. Epstein (Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, Rice) and Kirk O. Hanson (Stanford, Santa Clara) as a place to publish their continuing work on ethics and social responsibility in business and the broader society. Works by other authors will be considered if they address the same purpose.
The purpose of Lanark Press is to promote the ethical character of global society through publishing books and other works dedicated to this purpose. Lanark Press believes that society is shaped by individuals, institutions and the broader environmental context. A portion of the profits generated by these efforts are contributed to institutions promoting environmental responsibility.
Marc J. Epstein
Marc J. Epstein was, until recently, Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Rice, Dr. Epstein was a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration).
With extensive academic research and practice experience in the implementation of corporate strategies and the development of performance metrics for use in them, Marc is considered one of the global leaders in the areas of innovation, governance, performance measurement, and accountability in both corporations and not-for-profit organizations.
Marc has written extensively on corporate and nonprofit board governance, the role of boards of directors, organizational trust, and corporate accountability. He is the author of twenty books and well over two hundred professional papers that have won numerous academic, professional, and business awards. He also provides seminars, executive courses, consulting and presentations to senior managerial audiences throughout the world.
Kirk O. Hanson
Kirk O. Hanson was, until recently, Executive Director of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, one of the leading global centers for the study of applied ethics, and held the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Professorship in Social Ethics there for 17 years. Kirk taught business ethics at the Stanford Business School for 23 years before going to Santa Clara and is recognized as one of the founders of the academic field of business ethics. He has been an emeritus faculty member at Stanford since 2001.
Hanson writes and has published widely on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations and their leaders. His current research interests include the design of corporate ethics programs and the responsibilities of boards for the ethical culture of organizations. Hanson has consulted with more than 125 corporations, nonprofit organizations, health care entitles, and government bodies on the design of ethics programs and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.
Hanson was the founding president of The Business Enterprise Trust, a national organization created by leaders in business, labor, media, and academia to promote exemplary behavior in business organizations. He currently serves on several foundation and non-profit boards, has been honored by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Ethics and the American Leadership Forum, and received honorary doctorates from Santa Clara University and the University of Portland for his work on corporate ethics.
Epstein and Hanson previously co-edited a four-volume series released in 2006 entitled The Accountable Corporation, from Praeger Publishers.