Elaine Sternberg

Elaine Sternberg was born and brought up in New York City, where she graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. Having gone to London on a Fulbright Fellowship, she earned her doctorate in philosophy at the London School of Economics as Michael Oakeshott's last PhD student.. After teaching at the LSE, and at Imperial College (University of London) and Westminster University, she left academia to complete the Chase Manhattan Bank training program. At Chase, Dr Sternberg helped to establish...See more

Elaine Sternberg was born and brought up in New York City, where she graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. Having gone to London on a Fulbright Fellowship, she earned her doctorate in philosophy at the London School of Economics as Michael Oakeshott's last PhD student.. After teaching at the LSE, and at Imperial College (University of London) and Westminster University, she left academia to complete the Chase Manhattan Bank training program. At Chase, Dr Sternberg helped to establish Chase Manhattan Ltd in NYC and London. She then moved to an English merchant bank, Hill Samuel & Co. Limited, where she specialised in international corporate finance. Staying in the City, she worked next for the merchant bank of the National Westminster Bank. At County Bank Ltd, Elaine was part of a three member group that established County's post 'Big Bang' international equity broker/dealer business. She also created and ran County Securities' profitable business of underwriting and syndicating new issues of international equity, the first such operation in Britain. Elaine also established and ran the second such business in Britain, for Drexel Burnham Lambert Ltd. which head-hunted her to be its head of International Equity Syndicate. Concerned by what she saw in the firm made famous by its dominance of the junk bond market, Elaine left Drexel a year before Mike Milken was indicted for securities fraud. Her experience at Drexel supplemented what she had learned by considering CountyNatWest's involvement in the Blue Arrow scandal. Reflecting on what was commonly deemed unethical about the conduct of those firms, Elaine was struck by how mistaken most commentators were about the nature of both business and ethics. Just Business: Business Ethics in Action is her analysis of what business genuinely needs to do to be ethical. Dr Sternberg has applied the analysis of Just Business as principal of an international consulting firm. Analytical Solutions specialises in applying critical intelligence to solving business and organisational problems, especially those that cut across traditional professional boundaries and require financial sophistication and analytical rigor. Analytical Solutions also designs and provides customized courses on business ethics and corporate governance for businesses and academic users. In addition to giving guest lectures at many university in the UK and the US, Dr Sternberg has held a variety of Visiting Fellow positions. As a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, she helped its Centre for Business and Professional Ethics develop the world's first MA in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. She continues to be an Honorary Fellow of Leeds IDEA-CETL: Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She also remains a Senior Visiting Fellow of the University of Buckingham, as well as the Philosophy and Corporate Governance Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and an advisor of Public Concern at Work (the UK's "whistleblowers' charity"). In the US, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center (at Bowling Green University), a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Tulane University's Murphy Institute Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida (Gainesville), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami (FL). Dr Sternberg's many publications besides Just Business include Corporate Governance: Accountability in the Marketplace, Mind Your Own Business! Establishing a market for corporate control, The Stakeholder Concept: A Mistaken Doctrine, and many articles on business ethics, corporate governance, ethics, and... See less