Cynthia E. Clark, Ph.D. is the John W. Poduska Professor of Governance at Bentley University. She primarily teaches Business & Society and Corporate Governance in the Undergraduate, MBA and PhD programs. She has worked with multiple CEOs, c-suite executives and boards of directors on various business and society issues. Recently published work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization & Environment, and Business & Society. Professor Clark serves on the editorial board of two journals: Business & Society and Academy of Management Perspectives. She is also the author of Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom (2021). Additionally, she is a governance fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), is a member of the Society for Governance Professionals, the Society for Corporate Compliance & Ethics, the Private Directors Association (PDA) and is active in 50/50 Women on Boards; she presents regularly at all. She has been widely cited in the media including The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, The Boston Globe, CNN, Forbes and Reuters and has appeared on multiple podcasts as a noted expert. Prior to joining Bentley, Clark was a member of the faculty at Boston University, following a career in the banking and securities industry. She holds a PhD from the honors program at Boston University, a master’s degree from Northwestern University, and a BA from Boston College.
Kabrina K. Chang is an Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a clinical associate professor of business law and ethics in the Markets, Public Policy, and Law Department at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business . She teaches Introduction to Business Law, Employment Law, and Business, Justice, and Responsibility in the undergraduate program and Business Law and Discrimination, and Employment Law in the MBA program. Professor Chang also developed and co-coordinated Business, Society, and Ethics, a gateway course for all Questrom School of Business students. Professor Chang’s research focuses on employment matters, in particular social media, and how that impacts employment and management decisions and also on corporate social advocacy. Her work has been published in academic journals and news outlets such at the New York Times, Quartz.com, Bloomberg, and the Boston Globe as well as in magazines such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Professor Chang has won several awards for her teaching and writing. Before her academic career, Professor Chang was a trial lawyer in private practice.
Sean P. Melvin is an Associate Professor of Business Law and has taught at E-town since 2000. Dr. Melvin is the author of five books (including two textbooks), has contributed over two dozen scholarly and professional articles and case studies to various publications, and is a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. His most recent textbook, The Legal Environment of Business: A Managerial Approach as published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin in October 2010 and is in use at over one hundred colleges and universities. His recent article Case Study of a Coffee War: Starbuck v. Charbucks won “Best Case Study” and “Distinguished Proceedings” at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and was published in the Spring 2012 volume of Journal of Legal Studies Education. Before his academic career, Professor Melvin was a corporate lawyer in a large Philadelphia-based law firm and went on to become vice-president and general counsel at a publicly-traded technology company in King of Prussia, PA. Melvin earned his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Law School where he was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Business Organizations.
