Joe Holt is Director for Executive Ethics in the Executive Education program, and Concurrent Professor of Management, in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Joe received his B.A. from Boston College and spent 11 years as a Jesuit seminarian and priest working with the disadvantaged at home and abroad (Nicaragua and Nigeria) and earning graduate degrees in Philosophy (Fordham University), Theology (Weston School of Theology), and Biblical Theology (Gregorian University in Rome). While a Jesuit, Joe also taught Philosophy with a specialization in Business Ethics at Canisius College, Boston College, and Loyola University Chicago’s Rome Center.
Upon leaving the Society, Joe worked briefly as a stockbroker and then attended Harvard Law School (Harvard), where he was a teaching fellow in an undergraduate Philosophy course and worked on issues of human rights in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and death row appeal cases. After graduating from law school he worked for more than 5 years as a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions, antitrust matters, and venture capital deals in major Chicago law firms. While working full-time as an attorney, Joe taught A Spirituality of Work in Loyola University Chicago’s MBA program on an adjunct basis.
For two years before joining the Notre Dame faculty in July of 2004, Joe was a Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Law School; the Clinic provides free legal assistance to inner-city, low-income entrepreneurs seeking financial self-sufficiency. At the law school, Joe taught Entrepreneurship and the Law, Negotiation and Mediation, and a seminar on The Ethical Dimensions of Lawyering. From the fall of 2003, Joe also taught the Weave and Business Ethics courses in the University of Notre Dame Chicago EMBA program on an adjunct basis.
He currently writes, consults and speaks on issues including values-based leadership and decision-making, business ethics and spirituality of work. He also teaches Business Ethics, Values Integration, and Legal Issues in Startup Businesses in the EMBA program, and Spirituality and Religion in the Workplace, Values in Decision Making, and Legal Issues for Startup Businesses in the MBA program. Joe also teaches Negotiations and Business Ethics in non-degree executive programs at Notre Dame.
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