Debbie Haski-Leventhal is an author and public speaker and professor of Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. She is a scholar of corporate social responsibility (CSR), responsible management education (RME) and volunteerism and is the editor-in-chief of Society and Business Review (Emerald Publishing).

Early life and career

Debbie Haski-Leventhal was born in Tel-Aviv. She grew up in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family but became secular at the age of 19. She then moved to Jerusalem to study philosophy at the Hebrew University where she also studied a Master’s in Management of not-for-profits and a PhD. She migrated to Sydney, Australia in 2008, worked at the Centre for Social Impact and in 2011 moved to Macquarie University.^[1]

Research work

Haski-Leventhal has published over 60 academic papers on CSR,^[2] RME, volunteering and social entrepreneurship in Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, MIT Sloan Management Review, NVSQ and other journals. Her work was covered many times by the media, including the New York Times^[3] and Financial Review.^[4] She is a TED speaker.^[5]

Publications

Books

• Haski-Leventhal, D. (2023). Make it Meaningful: How to find purpose in life and work. Sydney: Simon & Schuster.
• Haski-Leventhal, D. (2020). The Purpose Driven University. London: Emerald Publishing.
• Haski-Leventhal, D., Roza, L., & Brammer, S. (2020). CSR and Employee Engagement. Edited book. London: SAGE Publications.^[6]
• Haski-Leventhal, D. (2018). Strategic corporate social responsibility: tools & theories for responsible management. London: SAGE Publications.

Most-cited publications

• Haski-Leventhal, D., & Bargal, D. (2008). The volunteer stages and transitions model: organizational socialization of volunteers. Human Relations, 61 (1), 67-102.
• Handy F, Cnaan RA, Hustinx L, Kang C, Brudney JL, Haski-Leventhal D, Holmes K, Meijs LC, Pessi AB, Ranade B, Yamauchi N. A cross-cultural examination of student volunteering: Is it all about résumé building?. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 2010 Jun;39(3):498-523.
• Haski-Leventhal, D. (2009). Altruism and volunteerism: The perceptions of altruism in four disciplines and their impact on the study of volunteerism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 39 (3), 271-299.
• Haski-Leventhal, D., Meijs, L., & Hustinx, L. (2010). The third-party model: Enhancing volunteering through governments, corporations and educational institutes. Journal of Social Policy, 39 (1), 139-158.