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Week That Was in Ethical Systems, 3/31/14-4/6/14

The Morning Risk Report: Investment Experts Can’t Spot Liars, And Worse, Think They Can, in The Wall Street Journal A recent study on lies in the financial industry found that although investment professionals "are just a little better…
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Distance, Dehumanization, and Ethical Disengagement

Being mindful of the variety of ways we humans misunderstand each other is instrumental in promoting ethical systems. Salon.com recently featured an article titled The Psychology of Hate: How We Deny Human Beings Their Humanity from Ethical…
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Meet “Homo Duplex” – a new ethics super-hero?

[This essay was originally posted on The Conflict of Interest Blog.] In “Behavioral Ethics for Homo Economicus, Homo Heuristicus and Homo Duplex” – which is published in the March 2004 issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision…
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Exemplary Ethical Recoveries

[This essay was originally posted on The Conflict of Interest Blog.] F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives,” but in the C&E world the second act may count for more than the first – for better…
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Sidetracked

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Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan by Francesca Gino Harvard Business Review Press (2013) (public library) Summarized by Jennifer Fang Overview The adage “the best laid plans of mice and men often…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior

[This essay was originally posted on contributor Dan Ariely's personal blog.] You make decisions all the time. What should you eat for breakfast? Which route should you take to work? How much are you willing to pay for local, pasture-raised…
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Too close to the line: a convergence of culture, law and behavioral ethics

[This essay was originally posted at The Conflict of Interest Blog.] Image via Wikimedia Commons. To “walk the line” means something very different to those who prosecute business crime cases than it did to Johnny Cash. For instance,…
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Week That Was in Ethical Systems, 2/3-2/9

Survey: Workplace Misconduct at Historic Low, from the Ethics Resource Center In case you missed our previous blog post, the 2013 National Business Ethics Survey came out last week, with fairly encouraging results. Sampling over 6,400…
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Good News: Workplace Misconduct is Declining Steadily

On February 4 the Ethics Resource Center released the latest National Business Ethics Survey (NBES). Sampling over 6,400 workers across the country, the report found that 41% of those surveyed said they have observed misconduct on the job,…
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Week That Was in Ethical Systems, 1/20-1/26

The Value of Corporate Culture, in The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation The authors discuss their recent NBER working paper, in which they find that "high levels of perceived integrity are positively…