David Mayer and Fast Company
David Mayer, associate professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business has recently signed on as a monthly contributor to Fast Company, the...
View ArticleIs Political Ideology a Compliance and Ethics Risk?
Cross posted with permission from ES Collaborator Jeffrey Kaplan'sConflict of Interest blogIn a post last week on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Danling...
View ArticleFeatured Collaborator for February: Steven Blader
Interview with Steven Blader, associate professor of Management and Organizations at NYU's Stern School of Business.What are your main areas of research? My primary areas of research focus on the...
View ArticleStrategy and Business Interview: Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business, was interviewed by strategy+business and shares his insight and expertise on ethical...
View ArticleA Lesson for Ethics Professors: Focus on the Positive
Guest post by Adam Waytz, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at NorthwesternAre ethics professors unwittingly encouraging a pessimistic attitude...
View ArticleIEX: Ethical Leadership in Finance
As we at Ethical Systems often state, we believe that integrity in business can be enhanced by leaders who take a systems-approach to the organizations and environments in which they operate.IEX is a...
View ArticleFeatured Collaborator for March: Dorothee Baumann-Pauly
Interview with Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Research Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human RightsWhat are your main areas of research? My work at the NYU Center for Business and Human...
View ArticleProfessionalism and Ethical Leadership From General Counsel’s Suite
Among the active debate among compliance professionals, lawyers, and commentators about the proper role of compliance within a corporate hierarchy, there is an emerging consensus that lawyers have...
View ArticleThe Global Ethics Summit: Culture at the forefront
Last week, I had the pleasure to attend The Global Ethics Summit, put on by The Ethisphere Institute. The event brought together over 400 people with broad perspectives on managing ethics within...
View ArticleInternal Reporting: Praising leaders for identifying issues
Internal reporting is one of the quickest ways employees can alert relevant organizational- and governmental- contacts that something is amiss. While extensive research shows that a major impediment to...
View ArticleFeatured Collaborator for April: Jeffrey Kaplan
Interview with Jeffrey Kaplan, partner in the Kaplan & Walker LLP law firm in Princeton, New Jersey What are your main areas of research /writing? I am principally a practitioner - in the...
View ArticleCombating a Culture of Minimalism with Preet Bharara
What does it mean to have an organizational culture of minimalism? On the surface, it results in doing only the bare minimum to avoid punishment from internal or external groups. The more insidious...
View ArticleLapsed Priorities: New Survey reveals lack of focus on bribery and corruption
If the following survey results are any indication, a betting man would be doubling down on increased FCPA cases in 2016.The study by international law firm Hogan Lovells and reported in the...
View ArticleGuarding Ethics: Azish Filabi's Keynote at Food and Enterprise Summit
What does it mean to eat and shop “local”? While there is no prescribed territory that those in- and in charge of regulating- the food industry can point to, many will generally agree that it is best...
View ArticleTwice as Nice: On ethics teaching
Can people be taught to be more ethical? While some may say teaching ethics is a recipe for continued headaches and an ongoing, almost Sisyphus-like journey to ensure lessons are absorbed, a new study...
View ArticleFeatured Collaborator for May: Robert Bloomfield
Interview with Robert Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management and Professor of Accounting at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management What are your main areas of...
View ArticleNever Black and White: Eugene Soltes Exposes the Gray
White collar criminals typically conjure images of dark boardrooms, wealthy conspirators and syndicated, international crime rings. Yet, in a new book, Eugene Soltes shows white collar crime is less a...
View ArticleRisking Reputation Rarely Rewarded: Lessons From The Lending Club
The recent news about Lending Club is a prime example of the reputational value of business ethics. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported the company’s twisted fate– it went from receiving a...
View ArticleFeatured Collaborators for June: Ethics By Design Speakers
Each month, Ethical Systems publishes an interview with one of our esteemed collaborators covering their research and work in an area relating to ethics and ethical systems design.For June, however, we...
View ArticleUnethical Amnesia: A Term Big Business Cannot Afford to Forget
Time heals all wounds. Time erodes even the mightiest mountain into a pebble. Time also, as a recent study highlighted in Harvard Business Review, enables people to forget their ethical lapses- a fact...
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