MICHAEL A. SANTORO, J.D., Ph.D
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Michael A. Santoro is a world renowned business ethics teacher, scholar and consultant.  Among Prof. Santoro's areas of expertise are  ethical leadership, business ethics, corporate governance, pharmaceutical industry ethics, and corporate social responsibility in China.  He lives in New York City and teaches at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey.

CNN Video of Prof. Santoro on China

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2010 Best Paper in Ethics Award 

American Accounting Association

Prof. Santoro and Rutgers PhD student Ronald J. Strauss received the ‘Best Paper in Ethics Award’ at the American Accounting Association. The article, entitled ‘Cash-Based Executive Compensation and Net Earnings – Ethical Analysis in Light of the Financial Crisis of 2008,’ analyzes cash-based executive incentive compensation, a compensation practice susceptible to particular forms of moral hazard and conflict of interest.

Media Appearences


NY Times Article About Drug Safety

NY Times Article About China 2020

Huffington Post Blog "Bush/Obama China Policy: Friends Without Benefits"

Huffington Post Blog--"Hillary in China"

Interview in New York Times about Merck's Vioxx

Africa: Fighting Malaria and Promoting Corporate Integrity

Prof. Santoro played an integral role in developing the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's transparency and good governance certification program for the Malaria Bed Net Industry.  This Bed Net Initiative is one of the first global programs to address corporate responsibility for anti-corruption. 

Tanzania: Designing 
Code of Conduct for
African-Based Global Company

Early in 2010, Prof. Santoro traveled to Tanzania where he helped to design and implement one of the first business ethics codes of conduct to be adopted by a sub Saharan African company.  For more on A to Z see the following video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpN9UZoKXNQ

Highlights Prof. Santoro's Design of Corporate Governance Reforms for Merck in Settlement of Vioxx Claims



Praise for China 2020



"In this great book, Michael A. Santoro adds in significant and important ways to the dialogue over the economic reforms in China and how these reforms give rise to many complexities in the areas of politics and human rights."

Doug Guthrie, Stern School of Business, New York University
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