Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., is Director of the business curriculum, Giving Voice to Values; Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; and an independent consultant based in Arlington, MA.

Previously Gentile was a faculty member, researcher, and administrator at the Harvard Business School. As an independent consultant (1995-present), Gentile works with corporate, non-profit and academic institutions on curriculum development, executive coaching, issue definition and strategy related to leadership development, social impact management, ethics, business education and diversity. Clients have included: Harvard Business School, Columbia University Business School, Pfizer Corporation, Dana Corporation, The United Nations Global Compact Learning Forum, University of Texas-Austin Business School, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, the Ford Foundation, the Aspen Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Business Executive Education, Duke University Fuqua School of Management, Notre Dame Business School, Washington State University Business School, International Women's Forum, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bentley College School of Business, Graduate Schoolof Management at Simmons College, Arthur Andersen, Harvard Divinity School, among others.

While at Harvard Business School (1985-95), Gentile developed the School's first and very highly rated course on managing diversity. She served as Vice Chair of the School's Diversity Task Force and was a member of the core design and planning committees for Harvard's MBA Leadership and Learning, a comprehensive review and revisioning of the MBA program. She offered numerous faculty development workshops and presentations to faculty assemblies on issues related to diversity, pedagogy, and business ethics. She ran the case development program, responsible of hiring, training, and managing a staff of 60 plus research associates.

Also while at Harvard Business School, Gentile was one of the principal architects of the innovative educational program, Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, which served to integrate Business Ethics into the Harvard graduate management curriculum. From the inception of this program, Gentile was centrally involved with its planning, faculty and curriculum development, research, teaching, and institutional development. The effort eventually produced a three week module required of over 900 incoming Harvard MBA students annually; a series of elective courses; an innovative program of faculty and curriculum development; and a series of extra-curricular offerings. Gentile coauthored a book detailing the history, philosophy and implementation of this ethics initiative, Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School (co-authored with Thomas R. Piper and Sharon Parks, Harvard Business School Press, 1993, translated into Japanese and Hungarian).

Her other publications include Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity (Harvard Business School Press, 1994; paper 1996; reissued by Waveland Press 2000); Managing Diversity: Making Differences Work (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1995); Managerial Excellence Through Diversity: Text and Cases (Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1995; reissued by Waveland Press, 1998), as well as numerous articles, cases, and book reviews in publications such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Harvard Business Review, Risk Management, CFO, The Journal of Human Values, New Academy Review, BizEd, Strategy+Business, etc.

Gentile also served as the Content Expert for the award-winning multi-media interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (Harvard Business School Publishing New Media Group, 1996). This corporate training tool has been adopted by numerous major corporations as a core component in their professional development initiatives.