Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics seeks to advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life. With a focus on practical ethics, the Center seeks to help meet the growing need for teachers, scholars, and leaders who address questions of moral choice across many of the professions and in public life more generally, and promotes a perspective on ethics informed by both theory and practice. The Center explores the connection between the problems that professionals confront and the social and political structures in which they act. It addresses the ethical issues that all citizens face as they make the choices that profoundly affect the present and future of their societies in our increasingly interdependent world. Its Research Lab has focused since 2010 on the problem of institutional corruption; the Center has also co-sponsored a 2013 research symposium, available online, on “Companies’ Global Health ‘Footprint’…Reporting for Global Health at Harvard.”