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Michael A. Santoro is a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. His teaching, research, and public work focus on business ethics, corporate governance, professional responsibility, and the human rights implications of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

Santoro’s recent scholarship examines how AI and data-driven systems shape equity, accountability, and institutional decision-making, particularly in health care and other high-stakes domains.

His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

He who exercises power by means of his virtue may be compared to the north star, which keeps its place while all the other stars revolve around it. — Confucius