J. Brooke Hamilton III, Ph.D.

Brooke Hamilton is an Associate Professor, Department of Management, B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and his Ph. D. degree in Philosophy from Emory University in 1972, with a concentration in Ethics and the History of Philosophy.  In 1970 he joined the faculty of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama, where he taught for seven years, was promoted to Associate Professor, and served as head of the Department of Philosophy for five years.  In 1977, Dr. Hamilton returned to Lafayette, Louisiana to join Elks Concrete Products, Inc., his family's concrete block manufacturing business.  Currently he serves as President of the Board of Directors for the company.

Having completed his M.B.A. at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1990, he was invited to return to academe as a member of the Department of Management and director of the ethics program for the School of Business.  He teaches courses in the Business and Society, Management of Behavior and Organizations, and Behavioral Processes, and teaches a multi-section course on Professional Ethics in the Department of Philosophy.

His research concentrates on developing practical ethical standards for use in the daily workings of business, on organizational ethics, on issues of honesty in both business and academia, and on teaching excellence.  He is also involved in research and teaching in clinical and biomedical ethics, holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor in the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board of University Medical Center in Lafayette.  He is a clinical ethics consultant for other hospitals in the region.

During the 2008-2009 academic year, Dr. Hamilton is on sabbatical working on a book, Effective Ethics for Managers: How to Think and Speak Ethics Clearly in Your Workplace, and continuing research on the parameters of an ethical relationship between investment advisors and clients.  He will be a scholar in residence at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University for the fall, and at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University for the spring. For information, visit his faculty page and click on the information boxes under the picture.
 
 
Dr. Hamilton is married to Susan S. Hamilton, a retired high school librarian and has two children and three grandchildren.  He can be reached at the Department of Management, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-3570.  Phone 377-482-6427 (O).  E-mail to hamilton@louisiana.edu.