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Laura P. Hartman holds the Grainger Chair of Business Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Hartman is the past Director of DePaul University's Institute for Business & Professional Ethics, held the Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics, and was an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Ethics at DePauVs Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, where she won the University's Excellence in Teaching award and was chair of the University's Public Service Council. Hartman has also served as an adjunct pro fessor at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Hartman's teaching responsibilities have included Business Ethics, Employment Law, Human Resource Management, Business Law, Antitrust Law, and Corporate Communication and Crisis Management, among other courses. We have chosen our title words wisely, or so it seems. "The Business Ethics Journey." Consider the implications: The journey of business ethics learning and application from the universities to the marketplace is "the travel home from a long distance," "the distance traveled without violating the law," and the making of a "good [hu]man" (modification of original). The conference for which the papers in this volume were originally prepared annually sought to identify the para meters of this journey "home," with a vision of a more ethical world as a result. This first of these annual conferences was held in 1994 at DePaul University, conceived as a natural extension of the basic mission of the three