Lauren Kaufmann

Kaufmann teaches business ethics in Darden’s full-time and part-time MBA formats. She uses normative and empirical methods in her research on business ethics, including in the areas of social and environmental impact, impact investing and gender. Her work has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly and Academy of Management Review.

Prior to joining Darden, Kaufmann completed her Ph.D. in applied economics and managerial science at The Wharton School, where she was recognized as the inaugural doctoral fellow at the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and as an emerging scholar by the Society for Business Ethics.

In addition to her appointment at Darden, she is an affiliated faculty member in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Department at UVA.

B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

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