Steve Salbu is an American academic. He served as the Cecil B. Day Chair in Business Ethics and dean emeritus of the

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at the

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Early life

Salbu was born in New York. He graduated from

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, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree. He earned a master of arts degree from

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and a JD from the

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. He subsequently earned another master's degree followed by a PhD from the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

Career

Salbu joined the

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at the

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in 1990. He became the Bobbie and Coulter R. Sublett Centennial Endowed Professor in 2000 and subsequently served as the associate dean for graduate programs. At UT Austin, one of Salbu's students was Brian Cruver, the author of ''

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''. Salbu was appointed as the Stephen P. Zelnak chair and dean of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. As dean, he accepted a $50 million donation from Ernest Scheller Jr. Salbu was also one of first openly gay business school deans. In a 2012 op-ed in ''The New York Times'', Salbu opined that mayors and aldermen should not prevent

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from opening branches in their cities in spite of

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's anti-gay marriage remarks; instead, customers should choose whether to eat there or not. Salbu retired as dean in 2014 and became the Cecil B. Day Chair in Business Ethics.

References

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