Ellen Susanna Cahn
Biography
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
Dr. Cahn is Professor of Management and Management Science in the Lubin School of Business. She regularly teaches Business Analytics, Business and Society, as well as other quantitative analysis courses.
Her research covers business ethics and decision models, including multicriteria dilemmas and algorithmic choices. Her publications range from the business applications of quantitative decision models to the development of codes of ethics and pedagogy of business ethics education.
Dr. Cahn made a presentation sharing her expertise on Assessment of Quantitative Analysis Skills at the Northeast Business and Economics Association Conference. She also presented her research on Multicriteria Decision Dilemmas and AI at the IIMA meeting at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. She has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics and has participated in the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research Works-in-Progress Workshop at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Education
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
BS, Columbia University, New York, NY
Applied Physics
Publications and Presentations
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Cahn, E., Glass, V. (2023). Privacy and Digital Mosaics: Lessons from Pollution Control. Journal of Business and Economic Studies. 27(2), 64-80.
Cahn, E. (2022). Business and/or Ethics? A Framework for Resolving Multicriteria Decision Dilemmas. Communications of the International Information Management Association Conference (IIMA). 20(1), Article 2.
Glass, Z., Cahn, E. (2022). Codes of Ethics: Extending Classification Techniques with Natural Language Processing. Journal of Values-Based Leadership. 15(1), Article 11.
Cahn, E. (2021). Responsible Design — Lessons from Biblical Privacy Ethics . AI and Faith.
Glass, Z., E. (2019). Classifying Ethics Codes Using Natural Language Processing. In Annie Bartoli, Jose-Luis Guerrero, Philippe Hermel (Ed.), Responsible Organizations in the Global Context, Current Challenges and Forward-Thinking Perspectives. (pp. 79-96). Palgrave MacMillan.
Cahn, E.S., Glass, V. (2018). The Effect of Age and Size on Reputation of Business Ethics Journals. Business And Society. 57(7), 1465-1480.
Cahn, E. (2018). Ethics in the Classroom - A Ten Year Retrospective. Journal of Educators Online. 15(2).
Winch, J.K., Cahn, E.S., (2015). Improving Student Performance in a Management Science Course With Supplemental Tutorial Videos. Journal of Education for Business. 90(7), 402-409.
Cahn, E.S. (2014). Measures of Corporate Social Performance and Ethical Business Decisions: A Review and Critique. Southern Journal of Business and Ethics. 6142-151.
Cahn, E.S., Glass, V. (2011). Teaching Business Ethics with Cases: The Effect of Personal Experience. Journal of Business Ethics Education. 87-12.
Cahn, E.S., Pastore, J.M. (2003). Decision Modeling: An Objective Approach to Moral Reasoning. Teaching Business Ethics. 7(4), 329-340.