Jeffrey L. Seglin is an editor-at-large at Inc. magazine where he writes a business ethics column called Black & White. For the 1998-1999 academic year, he was a fellow in residence at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard University. He writes the monthly "Right Thing" column on business and workplace ethics for the Sunday New York Times. And he is also an assistant professor in the graduate department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

At Inc., he was founding editor for the launch of Inc. Technology, a quarterly management and technology magazine to which he contributes a column called "Road Warrior." He also served as the inaugural editor of the first two issues of "The State of Small Business," an annual publication from Inc. that explores the small business economy.

In addition to his work at Inc., Seglin is the author and coauthor of more than a dozen books on small business, marketing, and banking. And he has written articles for a variety of publications.

He holds a master's degree in theology and literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in English from Bethany College in West Virginia. He has two grown children, both of whom are teachers. He lives in Boston with his wife, Nancy. Seglin can be contacted via e-mail at jseglin@post.harvard.edu.