Fr. Cavanagh was a devoted Jesuit and priest who ministered at Detroit Mercy for more than four decades. Fr. Cavanagh served the University as a professor of business management; academic vice-president and provost; the Charles Fisher Chair of Business Ethics; and the interim dean of the College of Business Administration. Fr. Cavanagh co-authored the first scholarly article to discuss ethical norms in organizations and went on to chair the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management and its Task Force on Ethics. His classic textbook, American Business Values, has been required reading at business schools around the nation and was included in Harvard’s list of essential business reading. Fr. Cavanagh is credited as one of the 12 original founders of the field of business ethics.
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