About Mary

Mary C. Gentile

MARY C. GENTILE, Ph.D. is the creator and director of Giving Voice to Values, and consults on management education and values-driven leadership for academic, business, government and non-governmental organizations. She served as Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at University of Virginia-Darden School of Business from 2016-2022. She was also faculty at Babson College from 2009-2015. In her ten-year tenure at Harvard Business School (1985-1995), she developed and taught the school’s first course on managing diversity, and helped design and teach its first required module on ethical decision-making. Mary’s books include Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right and several titles on ethics and diversity. She is editor of the Giving Voice to Values book series published by Routledge, and also edited eight books in the Business Ethics and Corporate Citizenship Collection from Business Expert Press. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine and Risk Management. She lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts.

Awards & Commendations

  • Mary C. Gentile appointed Advisory Board Member to the Carnegie Council Next Generation Leadership Initiative from Nov 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2025 by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
  • Mary C. Gentile named as 2024-25 Practitioner in Residence by the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, Notre Dame University, July 2024.
  • Mary C. Gentile has joined the advisory team of the NSHM Journal of Management Research and Applications (NJMRA), published by the NSHM Business School (Kolkata, India), January 2024.
  • Mary C. Gentile has joined the Education Committee of the Lahey Clinic Foundation Board of Trustees, an advisory committee to the board of the Lahey Clinic Foundation, January 2024.
  • “Giving Voice to Values: The “How” of Values-Driven Leadership Development” was shortlisted for the Nurturing Values and Ethics Award by the QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference, October 24, 2023.
  • Gentile was named the 2023 Andy Eder FASPE Business Faculty Member by FASPE (Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), April 17, 2023.
  • “Giving Voice to Values: The ‘How’ of Effective Antitrust Compliance” by Anny Tubbs and Mary C. Gentile, in Perspectives on Antitrust Compliance edited by Anne Riley, Andreas Stephan, Anny Tubbs, was shortlisted for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards, March, 2023.
  • Gentile received the Values-Driven Leadership Award from the Center for Values-Driven Leadership Cohort 5 at the Daniel L. Goodwin College of Business at Benedictine University, May 13, 2022.  
  • Gentile was named to the Advisory Board for EthicsIndia, a Legasis Group company, which strives to uphold the vision of and to create an ecosystem for the Compliance & Ethics Academy, 2022-2024.
  • Gentile inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, September 2021.
  • Gentile was a Delegate to the Values20 (V20), a global platform of values experts and practitioners preparing policy chapters and recommendations for the G20, Fall 2021.
  • Gentile appointed to Advisory Board for the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance, Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law, July 2021
  • Gentile appointed to Board of Directors for Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance, June 2021.
  • Gentile named to Advisory Board for Journal of Human Values, Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, June 2021.
  • Gentile was named Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, June 2021.
  • Gentile named as a Fellow to the Caux Roundtable for Moral Capitalism, 2021.
  • Gentile named to International Advisory Board, Journal of Business Ethics and Society, 2021.
  • GVV shortlisted for the Reimagine Education Awards, December 2020.
  • Mary C. Gentile named Advisory Board Member, ComplianceWeek, 2020.
  • Mary C. Gentile shortlisted for the Thinkers50 “Ideas into Practice” Award, July 2019.
  • Giving Voice to Values named “One of the Most Important Business Books” by TheReadingLists.com, March 2018.
  • GVV received the “Bronze Award for Ethical Leadership” from Reimagine Education, December 2017.
  • Mary C. Gentile shortlisted for the Thinkers50 “Ideas into Practice” Award, July 2017.
  • Mary C. Gentile named a “Top Mind 2017” in Governance, Risk, Ethics and Compliance by Compliance Week, May 2017.
  • Mary C. Gentile named Professor of Practice at University of Virginia Darden School of Business, September 2016.
  • Mary C. Gentile named in “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics 2016” by Ethisphere, January 2016.
  • GVV named Strategic Partner to GEC Risk Advisory, April 2015.
  • Mary C. Gentile named in “Top Thought Leaders in Trust: Lifetime Achievement Award Winners 2015” by Trust Across America, January 2015.
  • Mary C. Gentile named in “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2014” by Trust Across America, January 2014.
  • Mary C. Gentile named in “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2013” by Trust Across America, December 2013.
  • Mary C. Gentile received the Leadership in Humanistic Management Award from the Humanistic Management Network at the Academy of Management Conference in Orlando, Florida, August 12, 2013.
  • GVV named partner to the United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Initiative, June 2013.
  • Mary C. Gentile named for “21st Century Leadership” on list of “Women Who Are Changing the World: 25 Dynamic Leaders Actively Creating a Better World Through Work and Business” by Good Business New York Leading Women for 2021, Ethical Markets, September 18, 2012.
  • GVV featured in new Business Ethics Curriculum in Russian, launched by the International Business Leaders Forum, September 2012.
  • Mary C. Gentile named First Beideman Visiting Scholar for the Oskin Leadership Institute at Widener University, July 2012.
  • GVV named a “Featured Benchmark” at 50 + 20: Management Education for the World, June 2012.
  • Mary C. Gentile named one of North America’s “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2012” by Trust Across America, January 11, 2012.
  • GVV named a Gold Medal Winner in Business Ethics by the Axiom Business Book Awards, April 2011.
  • Mary C. Gentile named among the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2011” by Trust Across America, January 2011
  • GVV selected by the IBM Competitive Edge Book Club, October 6, 2010.

Other Writings by Mary

Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence Through Diversity by Mary C. Gentile. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press Inc., 2000.

Managerial Excellence Through Diversity: Text and Cases edited by Mary C. Gentile. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press Inc., 2000

Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School by Thomas R. Piper, Mary C. Gentile and Sharon Daloz Parks. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 1993.