laura hartman

Laura Pincus Hartman co-founded and currently serves as Executive Director of a trailblazing trilingual elementary school in Haiti, the School of Choice / l’Ecole de Choix, which provides high quality leadership development education to children living in the most extreme conditions of poverty. She was also instrumental in the hands-on design and implementation of a micro-development, finance and education system for people living in poverty in Haiti, Zafèn.
Informed by her background in law, with a focus on human rights, her expertise includes the following sectors:  ·       Education leadership, administration, strategy and infrastructure·       Project management, construction and implementation in education and social ventures ·       Disaster relief and recovery·       Strategy, communication & management·       Compliance, business ethics and corporate social responsibility·       Assessment, metrics, monitoring and evaluation·       Human resources, administrative & development responsibilities From 2015 - 2017, Hartman was the inaugural Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy and Clinical Professor of Business Ethics in the department of Organizational Behavior at Boston University Questrom School of Business.  From 1990 - 2018, she was Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business (now Professor Emerita).  She was honored to serve in a number of roles at DePaul, including Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She also served as an Associated Professor at the Kedge Business School (Marseille, France) and has taught at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, the University of Toulouse, and at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business.  From 2009-2012, Hartman was Director of External Partnerships for Zynga.Org, through which Zynga players of FarmVille, Words with Friends and other online games have contributed nearly $20 million toward both domestic and international social causes. Hartman’s work, integrated throughout these endeavors and published in more than 80 articles, cases and books, demonstrates the potential for innovative and profitable partnerships to alleviate poverty while providing measurable value to all stakeholders involved.  Winner of the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions (2015), named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business (2014), as well as to its “League of Extraordinary Women,” and one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (2014), Hartman has served as an advisor to a number of start-ups and has consulted with multinational for-profits, non-profits and educational institutions. Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She splits her time between Haiti and Sint Maarten.