Al gini biography

Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the School of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago.
Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.
Al Gini, PhD. Professor, School of Peppered with real voices from workers and employers across America, and with references from psychology to history.

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Alhadeff, Gini 1951-

PERSONAL: Born September 7, 1951, in Alexandria, Egypt; daughter of Carlo and Nora (Pinto) Alhadeff. Education: Attended Harrow School of Art, Harrow, England; Pratt Institute, graduated.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY; Strada, Chianti, Italy. Agent—Wylie Agency, 250 W. 57th St., Ste. 2114, New York, NY 10107.

CAREER: Journalist. Worked at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; worked for a designer in Milan, Italy; freelance writer, New York, NY, until c. 1985; Normal (literary magazine), founder; XXIst Century (literary magazine), Miami, FL, founder; Travel and Leisure, New York, NY; contributing editor.

WRITINGS:

The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family (memoir), Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1997.

Diary of a Djinn (novel), Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor of reviews and articles to journals, including Architectural Digest, House and Garden, Library Journal, New York Times Magazine, Town and Country Monthly, Travel and Leisure, and Vogue.

SIDELIGHTS: Gini Alhadeff was born in Egypt to a wealthy family

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Al Gini, PhD

Professor, School of Business

The 7 Deadly Sins Sample

The Great Books Foundation: 2007

(ISBN: 978-1-880323-19-9)

Synopsis:

Why does it often feel good to do something bad? In a world where we are encouraged to indulge, splurge, live a little visit Sin City has the ancient religious concept of sin lost its sway over the moral imagination?

The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler, a new collection of stories published by the Great Books Foundation, allows readers to peer into the hidden recesses of sinful thought and behavior. Without moralizing, the authors in this book Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and D. H. Lawrence, to name a few use fiction to explore our all too human thirst for transgressive pleasure.

For readers who know that good and evil isn't simply a matter of black and white, this collection will provoke lively conversation and sober contemplation. The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler comes with discussion questions for both book group and classroom use, as well as a foreword by Al Gini that explains the history of the seven

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Al Gini

Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the co-founder and long-time Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For over twenty-six years he has been the Resident Philosopher on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM, and he regularly lectures to community and professional organizations on issues of business and ethics. His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations (Routledge, 2003); Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2006); Seeking The Truth of Things (ACTA, 2010); The Ethics of Business with Alexei Marcoux (Rowan & Littlefield, 2012); 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders with Ronald M. Green (Wiley & Blackwell, 2013).

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