The New Yorker investigates Wall Street corruption
In “A Dirty Business” in the June 27th issue of The New Yorker, staff writer George Packer reports on the trial of hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted last month in the largest...
View ArticleDon’t kid yourself
In the book Blind Spot: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, Notre Dame business ethics professor Ann Tenbrunsel and Harvard business professor Max Bazerman examine why people behave...
View ArticleNew dean takes over at HBS
Leadership and organizational professor Nitin Nohria has taken over as Dean of Harvard Business School, and he says he wants to restore nobility to the business profession.
View ArticleBurson-Marsteller and Facebook: Lessons learned again
In this post, originally published on the Arthur W. Page Society Blog, Josephson Institute board member Tom Martin comments on the news (reported by The Daily Beast last May) that Facebook hired top PR...
View ArticleManagement Insight: Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow...
Remember: what you allow you encourage. It is sometimes a challenge to be supportive of, loyal to and caring toward employees and still acknowledge that your higher duty is to your clients and...
View ArticleRespecting Employees Can Boost Productivity
As an employer, what do you do if an employee admits to a project’s failure in front of your staff? Do you harshly scold them to set an example, or do you take a more forgiving approach? Teresa Amabile...
View ArticleEthics as Culture in Public Relations
Josephson Institute recently completed a multi-year assignment with FleishmanHillard, a global public relations and marketing firm. Seeking to make its ethics program the best in the industry, the firm...
View ArticleWHAT IS ETHICS? When people are affected, when interests collide and choices...
There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics applied by people in business to situations that arise in business. That does not mean, however, that ethics is not important in...
View ArticleNine Rules for Making Good Decisions
Josephson Institute’s Making Ethical Decisions booklet presents a decision-making model and examines what leads to good choices (and what steers us off course). Here is a list of rules that will help...
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