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Five Key Features of a Good Ethics and Compliance Program

There's a lot of momentum in the corporate world for creating real and effective ethics and compliance programs (spurred on by the incentives in laws such as the Federal Sentencing Guidelines). There's a lot of wisdom on how to create effective…
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Teaching Business Ethics Through Fiction

Harvard Business School professor Joseph Badaracco teaches a course titled "The Moral Leader," in which he has defined leadership as "a struggle by a flawed human being to make some important human values real and effective in the world as it…
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Week That Was in Ethical Systems, 4/28/14-5/4/14

Is Ethics Winning in Business? Chart Points to That Trend, in The Wall Street Journal The Dow Jones Risk & Compliance annual anti-corruption survey indicates a decrease in the number of companies reporting they lost business to an…
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#EthSys Insights 4: Robert Frank

#EthSys Insights is a video series where we have experts answer questions about ethical systems design. For our fourth installment, we had the pleasure of asking our Cheating & Honesty contributor, Robert Frank, to clear up contemporary misconceptions…
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#EthSys Insights 3: Amy Wrzesniewski

#EthSys Insights is a video series where we have experts answer questions about ethical systems design. For our third installment, we were fortunate to have a visit from Amy Wrzesniewski,  Associate Professor of Organization Behavior,…
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Behavioral ethics and compliance: what the board of directors should ask

[This essay was originally posted on the Conflict of Interest Blog.] In “Behavioral Ethics: Can It Help Lawyers (and Others) Be Their Best Selves?” – a preliminary draft of a paper which has been accepted for publication by the Notre…
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Week That Was in Ethical Systems, 4/14/14-4/27/14

Today we have a roundup of articles from the past two weeks: Making Use of Non-Financial Disclosures, in The Wall Street Journal A recent survey found that 9 out of 10 investment professionals said non-financial disclosures (e.g.,…
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#EthSys Insights 2: Marc Hodak

#EthSys Insights is a video series where we have experts answer questions about ethical systems design. For our second installment, we turn to Corporate Governance contributor Marc Hodak, adjunct professor at NYU-Stern. Marc answered the…
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(Dis)honesty – The Truth About Lies

The film’s director, Yael Melamede, and Dan Ariely, ready for the lies Yesterday, EthicalSystems.org collaborator Dan Ariely, came to New York to participate in the 11th annual Games for Change Festival. In addition to speaking at…
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Raising a Moral Company

Ethical Systems contributor Adam Grant wrote in the New York Times last week about how to raise a moral child. Drawing insights from several psychological studies, he came away with three primary suggestions: Praise good character,…