Ethical Leadership in the Global Economy, Boston University, 2016
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Professional Responsibility, NYU Stern, 2017
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Salon: Can Evolutionary Thinking Help Companies Foster More Ethical Cultures?
David Sloan Wilson, co-author of Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups had a conversation with special guests: Erika Cheung, Founder of Ethics in Entrepreneurship Toby Shannan, Shopify’s Chief Support Officer David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity. […]
Caterina Bulgarella Dispels the False Meme that Culture Is Intangible
Featured Interview: Caterina Bulgarella PhD, Culture Architect and Ethics Expert
What are your current areas of work and research?
Both my work and research focus on organizational culture. Over time, this work has become one and the same with building ethics in organizations, consistent with the evolution companies have been going through over the past 10-15 years. Ethical behavior underlines a powerful cocktail of ingredients (e.g., self-regulation, moral awareness, ability to ‘self-organize’ in the face of missing information, etc.). These human qualities and behaviors are also what organizations need to master the unprecedented level of complexity and change they face today.
Ethics By Design: How to Use Nudges, Norms and Laws to Improve Business Ethics
Videos, Presentations, Media and Photos from Our Conference Introduction to Ethical Systems How can ethical systems design make companies more profitable, productive and positive? Jonathan Haidt opens Ethics By Design discussing the mission of Ethical Systems and the central advantages of ethical systems design for businesses today. Speaker Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical […]
Ethics Pays
Is good ethics good for business? Crime and sleazy behavior sometimes pay off handsomely. People would not do such things if they didn’t think they were more profitable than the alternatives. But let us make two distinctions right up front. First, let us contrast individual employees with companies. Of course, it can benefit individual employees […]
Decision Making
It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. (Buddha, the Dhammapada) Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but […]
Teaching Ethics
After each major business scandal, a chorus of voices calls for business schools to work harder to instill ethics into their students. But what exactly should they doOn this page we focus on what business schools can do that may lead to stroner ethical systems in the corporate world. Some common changes business schools have […]
Personality & Personnel
Psychologists have identified a series of characteristics that predict patterns of unethical behavior by employees. At the same time, some people may behave honestly and with great integrity in their dealings with friends and family, but be duplicitous and self-serving at work. What can be done to shift their actions in a more ethical direction? […]