Dr. Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.B.A. Northwestern University; B.S.I.O.E. University of Michigan) is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics in the College of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame.

Ann teaches at the executive, MBA, and undergraduate levels. Her research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision making, examining why employees, leaders and students behave unethically, despite their best intentions to behave to the contrary.

Ann is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books on this topic—including Blind Spots (with Max Bazerman), Behavioral Ethics: Shaping an Emerging Field (with David De Cremer), and Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics (with David Messick)—and numerous research articles and chapters.

She was recognized as Ethisphere Top 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC, PBS and National Public Radio, and covered in many publications including The New York Times, US News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes, Psychology Today and Freakonomics.

Prior to entering academics, Ann worked as an engineer for S.C. Johnson & Son and as a sales and marketing consultant for ZS Associates.