Texas A&M Honors Treviño

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 30, 2007) – Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named an Outstanding Doctoral Alumna by her Ph.D. alma mater, the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.

Treviño, who joined the Smeal faculty in 1987 after earning her Ph.D. in management from Mays, was honored at a ceremony earlier this month for her outstanding achievements in the field of corporate ethics management.

At Smeal, Treviño directs the college's Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics and is a professor of organizational behavior. She is an expert in the management of ethical conduct in organizations and has published more than 60 journal articles.

She is co-author of the textbook Managing Business Ethics; Straight Talk about How to Do It Right, which is being used to teach undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in the United States and abroad, and is in its fourth edition. Another book, Managing Ethics in Business Organizations; Social Scientific Perspectives, was published in 2003 by Stanford University Press.

Treviño has taught undergraduates, MBA students, executive MBA students, Ph.D. candidates, and executives. She has also consulted with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and has led research projects for the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program, where she is chair of the Invited Academic Fellows.

Her recent research includes work on ethical leadership, values-based leadership, voice in organizations, and moral disengagement processes. She also studies academic integrity issues including the impact of honor codes on college students' cheating behavior.