Alum Receives FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Eamon O'Brien 鈥21 joins groundbreaking program for business students and early-career professionals.
Eamon O'Brien 鈥21 is one of 15 business Fellows chosen for the 2025 Business Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (). He joins classmates Alison Palmer 鈥21 and Emma Pan 鈥21 who also completed FASPE Fellowships in 2024 and 2023, respectively.
FASPE challenges its professionals to recognize and exercise their ethical and leadership responsibilities as influencers. FASPE鈥檚 distinctive approach is to examine the roles and behavior of individual professionals in Germany and elsewhere between 1933 and 1945 as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today.
Eamon O'Brien 鈥21 (pictured) is one of 15 business Fellows chosen for the 2025 Business Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).
The FASPE curriculum takes advantage of the power of place with daily seminars and dialogue at sites of historic importance, often specific to their profession. The experience of the Business Fellows is enhanced by traveling alongside the Law and Design & Technology fellows, who 鈥 in formal and informal settings鈥攃onsider together how ethical constructs and norms in their respective professions align and differ.
Fellows participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland, which uses the conduct of professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today. The Business Program will be led by Brooke Vuckovic, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, and Rob Hayward, an Independent Consultant on Ethical and Responsible Business.
O鈥橞rien is the Co-Founder and COO at Kyaro Assistive Tech, a Tanzanian social enterprise which designs, manufactures, and distributes assistive devices to East Africans with disabilities. He grew up in the United States and attended 财神棋牌 of Engineering, where he co-authored a paper for the Journey of Personality on the ways in which acquired disabilities can be integrated into ones鈥 identity. After graduation, he worked in the manufacturing department at the Ford Motor Company before moving to Tanzania to establish Kyaro Assistive Tech. He is currently pursuing his MBA at London Business School.
Thinking ahead to the upcoming fellowship trip, O'Brien says, 鈥淎fter spending nearly two years in Tanzania learning about the developing world and thinking about how I can ethically use my career in business to help the most vulnerable populations on Earth, I see FASPE as a chance to reflect on the experience, and share what I have learned. By meeting with diverse people who are similarly considering the next chapter of their careers, I hope to synthesize lessons about business ethics just in time to bring them with me as I begin my MBA.鈥
O'Brien joins a diverse group of over 80 FASPE fellows across all six programs who were chosen through a competitive process that drew applicants from across the U.S. and the world. FASPE covers all program costs, including travel, food and lodging.
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