Role of the Audit Committee in Business Ethics
(View Complete Item Description)Executives discuss how new standards are changing corporate governance
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Role of the CEO in Building an Ethical Organization
(View Complete Item Description)Panel discussion featuring Radha Basu (SupportSoft), Ken Denman (Openwave Systems), Robert Ewald (SGI), Mark Lonergan (Lonergan Partners).
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Role of the CFO in the Ethical Culture of an Organization
(View Complete Item Description)The CFO can become an ambassador for ethics throughout a corporation.
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Sacred Texts in Business Ethics
(View Complete Item Description)Five key texts that provide the foundations of business ethics.
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Safety, Corporate Responsibility, and the Oil Spill
(View Complete Item Description)Lessons from the oil spill on managing corporate behavior.
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The Six Ethical Dilemmas Every Business Professional Faces
(View Complete Item Description)Video of a talk delivered at Bentley University as the Verizon Visiting Professor of Business Ethics address.
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The Sole Remaining Supplier
(View Complete Item Description)What are the ethical questions involved when a company is the only supplier of a high-risk, life-saving product?
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Speaking Truth to Power: A White Paper
(View Complete Item Description)O'Toole, aresearch professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, explores how to encourage candor within organizations.
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Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of the Executive
(View Complete Item Description)James O'Toole argues that great leaders encourage candor.
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A Sustainable China
(View Complete Item Description)Summary of a talk by Baocheng Liu about sustainability and corporate social responsibility in China.
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Toward an Ethical Culture
(View Complete Item Description)“What are the signs that a company is getting it right and addressing the most important dimensions of managing ethics in an organization?” That was the question Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, addressed at a recent meeting of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership. Hanson built his talk on a model he devised in 1984 and has revised over the years. “We have a lot of things to draw on that we didn’t back in 1984,” he said. There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about what the signs are that a company is taking ethics seriously.
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Transformation of Work
(View Complete Item Description)Summary of a presentation by Edward Lawler highlighting findings from his book The New American Workplace.""
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Transforming An Organization's Ethical Culture
(View Complete Item Description)Video interview with Greg Coplans, executive vide president of Hitachi Data Systems.
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Unocal in Burma
(View Complete Item Description)Background to a suit in federal court alleging that members of a minority Burmese group had been subjected to relocation, forced labor, torture, murder, and rape on the Yadana pipeline project
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Vendor as Investor
(View Complete Item Description)Using credit with vendors as an investment in a start-up.
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Western Perspectives on Business Practices in China
(View Complete Item Description)Summary of a panel featuring Chris Cooper, Deloitte; Carson Block, Muddywaters; and David Chen, Microsoft.
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What Really Went Wrong With Enron? A Culture of Evil?
(View Complete Item Description)A panel of Santa Clara University Business Ethicists reflect on the reasons behind the Enron scandal.
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When Good People Do Bad Things at Work
(View Complete Item Description)Rote behavior, distractions, and moral exclusion stymie ethical behavior on the job. Discusses Ford Pinto case.
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When Things Go Wrong in China
(View Complete Item Description)Summary of a panel on the FCPA featuring Chris Forrester, Morrison & Foerster, and Randy Gausman, former CFO of Rae Systems.
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The Whistle-Blower's Quandary: Fairness or Loyalty
(View Complete Item Description)Different values motivate workers who blow the whistle and those who don't.
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