Ethics Articles
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- The Cost of Dying and Moral Choices at the End of Life
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- Podcast of a talk on the ethics of end-of-life decision making
Lisa Krieger
- The New Digital Divide
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- In this brief video, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and innovator Kim Polese addresses the new digital divide--between those who have high-speed wired broadband access to the Internet in their homes, and those who don't.
Kim Polese
- Facebook's Mobile Home Ignores Context
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- The ubiquity of Facebook's "home" feature may draw attention to itself when it's most disruptive and least appropriate
Irina Raicu
- Who Can Deliver the Journalism We Need in the Digital Public Square?
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- A historical review of media independence and the impact of digital technology on journalism
Todd Gitlin
- The Future of Digital Journalism in the Public Square
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- The head of Google News looks at how the openness of new media present opportunities for a better informed public
Richard Gingras
- What is Journalism's Mission in the Public Square?
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- An analysis of San Diego?s three primary news outlets
Lorie Hearn
- When "Truth" Seems a Matter of Debate, Should Journalists Advocate Critical Thinking and News Litera
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- Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation argues that new media do a better job than old of protecting journalistic values such as accuracy, objectivity, and depth
Sue Gardner
- Cultivating Diversity Across Race, Class, Gender, Generation, and Geography
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- Media diversity must include race, class, gender, generation, and geography.
Martin Reynolds
- Curating and Promoting News Important to Civil Society
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- The director of Editorial Operations at Yahoo! explores what readers want to know and what they need to know
Anthony Moor
- Can Technical Solutions Protect Free and Informed Debate in the Public Square?
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- The chief knowledge officer of the MIT Media Lab demonstrates projects addressing media literacy, crowd-sourced and database journalism.
Henry Holzman
- Cyber Security and the Obligations of Companies
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- Ken Baylor, an expert on IT security and regulatory compliance, addresses the reality of cyber security in 2013.
Margaret Steen
- Privacy and Innovation
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- Travis LeBlanc, special assistant attorney general of California, and Irina Raicu, Internet Ethics Program Manager at the Ethics Center discuss whether privacy concerns must stifle innovation.
Margaret Steen
- It's Not About You
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- Center executive director addresses the 2013 graduates of University of Portland.
Kirk Hanson
- Mobile Technology and Social Media - Ethical Implications
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- In emerging markets in particular, mobile devices and social media have become ?life tools??used for telemedicine, banking, education, communication, and more. These developments give rise to new ethical challenges.
Radha Basu
- A Legacy in Ethics
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- Kristi Markkula Bowers reflects on her family's connection to the Ethics Center.
Miriam Schulman
- Insta-Interruption
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- Beth and Katie, two friends, go out to lunch. During their get-together, they are constantly interrupted by each other's social media use.
Chloe Wilson
- The Influence of Partisan Politics on Government
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- The Public Sector Roundtable hosts former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards
- The Ethical Dilemma of BYOD
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- As people increasingly bring their own (mostly mobile) devices into the workplace, and use them for both personal and professional activities, new challenges arise--for the employees as well as their employers. Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of VMware, discusses some of the implications of BYOD for data security and personal privacy.
Pat Gelsiger
- The Disconnect: Accountability and Consequences Online
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- A discussion of the breakdown among responsibility, accountability, and consequences in the online world, as demonstrated by some digital media coverage.
Stephen Luczo
- Catholicism and Conscience
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- Historical background plus a focus on 4 areas: contraception, health care, politics, and war
Brian Patrick Green
- A Tale of Two Cheaters
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- Two college students at the same school face very different consequences for plagiarizing. Is this fair?
Chloe Wilson
- Internet Access Is a Privilege
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- What would our lives be like if we no longer had access to the Internet? How much good would we lose? How much harm would we be spared? In this brief video, one of Apple's co-founders argues that Internet use is a privilege and considers ways to minimize some of the harms associated with it, while fully appreciating its benefits.
A. C. "Mike" Markkula Jr.
- Sacred Texts in Business Ethics
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- Five key texts that provide the foundations of business ethics
Kirk O. Hanson
- Protecting Privacy and Society
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- Consumer and business data is increasingly moving to the "cloud," and people are clamoring for protection of that data. However, "maximum privacy" is really anonymity, and some people use it as a shield for illegal and unethical behavior. How should cloud service providers deal with this dilemma?
Steve Bennett
- The Need for Accuracy Online
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- There's a gap between what Internet users expect to receive (i.e. factual and accurate information) and what they too often get instead. Is it the user's responsibility to judge which sources to access on the Web? Do the publishers have a duty to strive to be accurate?
Charles "Chuck" Geschke
- Time is of the Essence
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- Stephanie, a college student, must make a difficult decision about whether or not to be honest with a future employer in order to be hired.
Chloe Wilson
- Privacy Tradeoffs Online
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- NetApp's Executive Chairman Dan Warmenhoven discusses the development of GPS-tracking technology and the ethical issues associated with the aggregation of GPS data into large databases.
Dan Warmenhoven
- The Right to Be Forgotten
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- Reputation.com co-founder Own Tripp discusses the long life of information online and its repercussions. Response by Evan Selinger, associate professor of philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Owen Tripp
- Two Classes of Common Stock: Qui Bono (video)
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- Does having two classes of common stock, which places control of the Board in the hands of the founders and not the investors, benefit the investors or just entrench Management?
Jim Balassone, Katie Martin
- Can You Keep a Secret?
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- Scott, an SCU student, discovers an entry about him on a Facebook "confessions" page. He tries to decide if sites like this are funny or simply hurtful.
Chloe Wilson
- On Designing a More Ethical Internet
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- What does it mean to live well by means of the Internet? In what ways can the Internet help us live well, or make it more difficult to live well? In this brief video, Santa Clara University Assistant Professor Shannon Vallor looks at the Internet through a philosopher's lens.
Shannon Vallor
- Catholic School Standards and Character Education
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- Lorraine Ozar, director of the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness, outlines the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools
Miriam Schulman
- Picking Up the Slack
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- Greg, a college senior, struggles to decide whether or not he should give an apathetic groupmate an honest evaluation.
Chloe Wilson
- Do Honor Codes Work?
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- Gary Pavela, director of academic integrity at Syracuse University, explores the evidence.
Miriam Schulman
- View From Sacramento
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- Materials from a meeting of the Public Sector Roundtable on how state and local government can work together
- Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Government Service
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- Questions that public officials should ask before making a decision
Joe Simitian and Judy Nadler
- How the State Legislature Impacts Local Government
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- How empathy can help state and local legislators work together more effectively
Joe Simitian and Judy Nadler
- Forgive and Forget
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- Two college students could be deeply affected by the passing of a new student loan forgiveness act, the FSSA.
Chloe Wilson
- How the State Legislature Impacts Local Government
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- California politician Joe Simitian talks about how different levels of state and local government can work together.
Miriam Schulman
- Character Education in Bering Straits
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- Bering Straits School District in Alaska uses the Center's Character Based Literacy Curriculum
Leah Stanek
- The Dhaka Factory Fire: Who Is Responsible?
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- Is the Bangladeshi government or the factory owner more at fault for a fire that killed 112 people?
Saayeli Mukherji and Noah Rickling
- Instagram and the Ethics of Privacy
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- Is it wrong for an Internet company to share users' information with third-parties and advertisers?
Alexis Babb and Amanda Nelson
- Caught in the Middle
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- Ben sees his friend, Tyler, cheating on his girlfriend. He feels caught in the middle.. What should he do?
Chloe Wilson
- Privacy by Design: An Engineering Ethics Perspective
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- Video of a panel discussion one "baking privacy into" products
Ben Adida,Brian Kennish,Arvind Narayanan,Irina Rai
- History and Role of the Delaware Court of Chancery
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- Sam Glasscock, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, explains why Delaware corporate law has become a U.S. Standard.
- Nexus of the Law and Ethics
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- Joseph Grundfest, professor of law and business at the Stanford Law School, a key to ethical decision making is determining what is smart.
- Legitimate Role of Whistleblowers in an Organization
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- Video of a conversation with Hank Shea, former federal prosecutor and professor of law at St. Thomas University
Hank Shea
- How to Navigate Your Way Out of No Man's Land With Ethics
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- Using your moral compass to improve your company's performance
Dan Crawford
- Sister, Can You Spare a Dime?
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- College students struggle with a decision about how to help a man who is homeless.
Miriam Schulman
- Why do candidates lie?
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- How citizens can hold candidates to higher standards of honesty
Judy Nadler
- It Would Be an Honor
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- Does your school have an Honor Code? Do you think it works? Why or why not?
Chloe Wilson
- Boys Will Be Boys
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- A college student in a relationship is challenged by her significant other's use of pornography.
Chloe Wilson
- Government Ethics Articles
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- Materials on transparency, gifts and bribes, conflicts of interest, campaigns, and other topics in government ethics.
- Talking Turkey: A Case Study on Government Ethics
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- When a mayor participates in soliciting donations for a local foodbank, is he giving merchants the impression that they can't say no?
Judy Nadler
- Transparency, Trust, and Campaign Finance
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- FPPC Chair Ann Ravel explores the impact of Citizens United on campaign finance in California
Miriam Schulman
- Members Only
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- Two students at UC Hastings disagree about the school's basis for club funding. Based on the Supreme Court case "Christian Legal Society v. Martinez."
Chloe Wilson
- Proposition 34: The Ethical Issues in Capital Punishment
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- A dialog on the death penalty between Ellen Kreitzberg, SCU professor of law, and Lawrence Nelson, SCU associate professor of philosophy
Miriam Schulman
- Corporate Board Independence and Conflicts of Interest
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- Four videos on identifying and addressing possible conflicts of interest for members of corporate boards
Daniel Cooperman and Kirk O. Hanson
- Students Rule the School
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- Hackworth Fellow Satre-Meloy discusses the creation of an honor code at Santa Clara University.
Aven Sartre-Meloy
- Ethical Decision Making App Contest
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- Contest open to SCU students
- Chinese Perspectives on Doing Business in China
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- Summary of a panel featuring Liu Baocheng, director of the Center for International Business Ethics
Margaret Steen
- Western Perspectives on Business Practices in China
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- Summary of a panel featuring Chris Cooper, Deloitte; Carson Block, Muddywaters; and David Chen, Microsoft.
Margaret Steen
- Building an Ethical Business Culture in China
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- Summary of a panel featuring Sheridan Tatsuno, Dreamscape Capital; Stanley Kwong, professor, USF; and Jacqueline Fan, Ernst & Young.
Margaret Steen
- When Things Go Wrong in China
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- Summary of a panel on the FCPA featuring Chris Forrester, Morrison & Foerster, and Randy Gausman, former CFO of Rae Systems
Margaret Steen
- Lessons on Ethics and Compliance in China
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- Five takeaways from a meeting on Business Ethics in China
Margaret Steen
- Apps and Privacy ? A Case Study
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- Should apps be able to collect a user's contacts without permission?
Irina Raicu
- Rock the Vote
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- A college student tries to decide if one moral issue is enough to prevent her from voting for a political candidate.
Chloe Wilson
- What "Wood" You Do? A Government Ethics Case
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- The fire chief takes wood from city trees for his personal use.
Judy Nadler
- Ethics in High Pressure Campaigns
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- Podcast of a Commonwealth Club discussion featuring Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson
Kirk Hanson
- Ethical Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: A Toolkit
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- Practical ethical issues for public health agencies in dealing with a severe pandemic
Margaret R. McLean
- Ethical Issues in Dealing With Influenza
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- Resources for considering the ethical ramifications of seasonal and pandemic flu
- The Pre-Game
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- Two college students, Ari and Daniel, face difficult decisions about what to do on a night out. An interactive video illustrates the possible outcomes!
Miriam Schulman
- Claustrophobic
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- A college freshman, Derek, tries to figure out how to deal with a clingy roommate.
Chloe Wilson
- Rushing Into Things
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- Katie, a college freshman, decides whether or not to rush for a sorority.
Chloe Wilson
- Five Ethical Choices You Will Need to Make in College
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- Based on news stories of the past year, ethical issues that students will need to face
Miriam Schulman
- Religion, Ethics, and the 2012 Election
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- Thomas Reese, SJ, looks at the impact of religion on the election with special attention to the contraceptive mandate.
Miriam Schullman
- Passion or Practicality?
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- Mark must decide whether to please his parents and be relieved of his tuition costs or follow his passions and accrue substantial debt.
Chloe Wilson
- Who Should Pay for College?
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- Are parents or students responsible for college costs?
Miriam Schulman
- How Ethics Can Help You Land a Job
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- Hiring managers look for respect, responsibility, honesty
Miriam Schulman
- When Someone You Care About Is Depressed
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- Ethical duties of friends toward the mentally ill.
Miriam Schulman
- Sports Ethics: Mapping the Issues
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- An outline of key issues in professional, college, and youth sports
Kirk O. Hanson, Matt Savage
- What Role Does Ethics Play in Sports?
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- Distinguishing between gamesmanship and sportsmanship
Kirk O. Hanson, Matt Savage
- Ethics in Professional Sports
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- An exploration of issues such as cheating, health and safety, and being a role model
Kirk O. Hanson ,Matt Savage
- Ethics in College Sports
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- Are college sports compatible with the goals of higher education?
Kirk O. Hanson, Matt Savage
- Ethics in Youth Sports
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- Ethical issues for players, coaches, and parents
Kirk O. Hanson, Matt Savage
- Internet Ethics
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- Resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics on privacy, hacking, videogaming, databases, etc.
Keywords: internet, ethics, privacy, hacking, databases, videogames
- Ethics in a Post RDA California
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- Public Sector Roundtable meeting on the end of redevelopment agencies
- California Without Redevelopment Monies: The Ethical Issues
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- Successes and missteps of redevelopment agencies and what their demise will mean
Miriam Schulman
- San Jose Moving Ahead Without Redevelopment Money
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- Richard Keit, managing director of the San Jose Redevelopment Successor Agency, talks with Judy Nadler, senior fellow in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the end of Redevelopment Agencies. Keit argues that California has lost its single best tool for redevelopment. He describes working with the oversight boards. which are in charge of dissolving the agencies. Keit also discusses how cities must make difficult choices between good projects now that redevelopment monies are exhausted.
Richard Keit
- Impact of Redevelopment on Downtown San Jose
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- Bert Robinson, managing director for content of the Bay Area News Group, talks with Markkula Center Senior Fellow in Government Ethics Judy Nadler about the role of redevelopment in bringing San Jose "back from the dead." They discuss the fall-out from the dissolution of redevelopment agencies in California and whether the state discontinued the agencies solely to save money.
Bert Robinson
- Patterns of Fraud in the Chinese Market
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk Hanson talks with Jacqueline Fan, a partner at Ernst & Young, about corruption, bribery, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She identifies supply chain problems, financial statement fraud, and the rapid transition in the economy as ethical challenges when doing business in China.
Jacqueline Fan
- U.S. and China: Are Their Values Really Different?
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- David Chen, vice president for China Legal and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft, and Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, discuss differing perspectives on intellectual property, piracy, and creating value.
David Chen
- Identifying Fraudulent Companies in China
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- Carson Block, research director of Muddywaters, talks with Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics about ethical issues such as fraud, conflicts of interest, executive pay, and cozy relations with auditors and how these problems manifest in China.
Carson Block
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Case Study
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- Randall Gausman, former CFO of Rae Systems, talks with Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the steps he took when he became aware of FCPA violations in a joint venture with China.
Randall Gausman
- Petty Theft
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- A college student sees her best friend stealing from her roommate, and is forced to make a difficult decision.
Chloe Wilson
- Corporate Governance: Board Members Reflect
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- Video series with three corporate directors on the board's role in promoting ethical behavior
Robert Finocchio, Richard Levy, Michael Hackworth
- Once a Cheater...
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- An undergrad has to decide if he can still trust his friend when he sees the friend cheating in class.
Jake Teeny
- Your Privacy Online
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- Teaching module on Internet privacy
Irina Raicu
- Defining Privacy
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- A definition of privacy as a right
Irina Raicu
- Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?
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- Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?
Irina Raicu
- Privacy Protection: A Quiz
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- How much do you know about privacy? Try this quiz.
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
- Are Attitudes About Privacy Changing?
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- Multi-generational approaches to privacy
Irina Raicu
- Girls Around Me
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- Case study on Internet Privacy
Irina Raicu
- Information About You = $
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- How Internet companies provide personal data to advertisers
Irina Raicu
- How To Protect Your Online Privacy
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- Tips and links
Irina Raicu
- Ethics of Online Privacy
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- Balancing benefits and harms of Internet privacy
Irina Raicu
- Privacy and Security in a Wireless World
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- Access to material from a panel on ethical issues raised by large wireless systems.
- Information Privacy: A Case Study and Commentary
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- A proposal for a National AIDS registry raises concerns about privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- What is Privacy?
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- Definitions of privacy and informational privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Why We Care About Privacy
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- The importance of privacy for human dignity, autonomy, and relationships
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Human Cost of Computer Errors
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- Inaccurate databases harm consumers
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Ethical Implications of Data Aggregation
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- The ability to amass enormous quantities of data on individuals impacts privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Unauthorized Transmission and Use of Personal Data
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- Ethical problems with using data for purposes other than the original
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Data Matching: Some Ethical Considerations
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- Lack of due process and consent raise problems
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy and Balancing Institutional Power With Individual Freedom
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- Monitoring of citizens by government and employees by employers threatens individual rights
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy and the Law
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- A review of common law privacy protection, the Constitutional right to privacy, and privacy legislation
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy Norms
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- Guidelines on protecting individual privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Cheat Sheet
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- Shelby must decide whether to report to her professor that one of her friends was cheating on a curved exam.
Jake Teeny
- Sustainable Design in Ghana: An Ethical Reflection
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- Report on a student project to
design an affordable, durable, sustainable, and socially acceptable house for Ghana
Nathan Rogers, SCU '12, and Matt Jensen, SCU '12
- Citizen Journalists And How They Are Changing The News Process
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- What ethical issues arise when non-professionals are co-creators of the news media?
Christopher Mora
- Investigation: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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- Against the background of financial scandals and the recent economic collapse, companies are under increasing scrutiny and are facing real risks in terms of regulatory action that can impair their ability to conduct business, according to Craig Martin, a partner at Morrison & Forester. Martin and Catherine Madrid, a partner at Ernst & Young, talk with Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson about the role of internal investigations as one of the affirmative steps companies can take to make sure they are in compliances with the law.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Occidental Engineering: An Ethics Case Study and Commentary
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- A case study and analysis of an ethical dilemma facing a software engineer
Michael McFarland, S.J
- Engineering Ethics (Video)
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- Why ethics is important for engineers.
Michael McFarland S.J, Irina Raicu
- Ethical Issues in Dealing With Seasonal Influenza
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- Ethical Issues in Dealing With Seasonal Influenza
Sarah Ludwig
- Influenza Vaccine Shortage: The Ethics of Rationing
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- Influenza Vaccine Shortage: The Ethics of Rationing
Sarah Ludwig
- Seasonal Influenza: The Ethics of Staying Home
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- Seasonal Influenza: The Ethics of Staying Home
Sarah Ludwig
- Online Hyperlocal News Sites
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- Implications of online hyperlocal sites for quality and integrity of the news.
Casey Moore
- Digital First Media
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- Instant reporting from social sites and a personalized Web experience represent major changes in how consumers receive the news.
Caitlin Millar
- Multigenerational News Room
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- Changing technologies create a generational divide among reporters.
Lucia Gonzalez
- Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality
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- The role of corporate counsel in the company's ethical culture
Miriam Schulman
- Tyler Clementi Case - What Punishment Is Justifiable?
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- Dharun Ravi has been convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering, and hindering arrest. What should be his punishment?
Jake Teeny
- Protesting Commencement
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- A student contemplates the most ethical way to register objections to the University's choice of commencement speaker.
Jacob Teeny
- Ethical Meltdown: Red Flags for Boards of Directors
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- Ethical Meltdown: Red Flags for Boards of Directors
Jim Balassone
- The Dream Act
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- Should those who reside in the U.S. illegally still be allowed to attain a U.S. education and what constitutes this eligibility?
Ethics Center Media
- Ethics for Corporate Boards
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- Video conversations between former federal prosecutor Hank Shea and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson on corporate governance
- Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration
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- Ethical issues in a market for human organs
Miriam Schulman
- Ethical Challenges in the City Manager/City Councilmember Relationship
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- Three scenarios depicting typical ethical issues that arise between councilmembers and managers
Frank Benest
- Effective Council/Manager Relations
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- Materials from a meeting of the Pubic Sector Roundtable
city manager, city council
- Do's and Don'ts for City Managers and City Councilmembers
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- Advice for new city officials from an advisor to the International City/County Management Association
Frank Benest
- Ten New Rules for Elected Officials in Times of Economic Meltdown
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- Senior adviser to the International City/County Management Association advises public servants to focus on the core.
Frank Benest
- Paying For College ? Who Should Take Responsibility?
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- Should a college student's parents be burdened with paying expensive college tuition?
Jake Teeny
- Role of the Corporate Board
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- Three video conversations with Chair of the Board of Varian Richard Levy
Richard Levy
- What is Business Ethics? A Video Introduction
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- Markkula Ethics Center Director covers basic concepts in business ethics
Kirk O. Hanson
- Football, Concussions, and Character (podcast)
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- Fox Sports analyst Pereira explores whether the rules have caught up with the game of football
Mike Pereira
- Internet Ethics Program Manager
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- Sexual Assault on College Campuses
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- A review of effective sexual assault policies with Michael McFarland, former president of College of the Holy Cross
Miriam Schulman
- Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (video)
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- Talk by the author of "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Lori Andrews
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Hacking
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- Justice, common good, utilitarian, rights, and virtue approaches to hacking
hacking, ethics
Irina Raicu
- Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas for Non-Profits
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- Brief case studies of ethical conflicts in fundraising
ethics, fundraising, non-profit
Kirk O. Hanson and Peter Gielniak
- Football, Concussions, and Character
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- Fox Sports analyst Mike Pereira comments on changing the culture of football to prevent injuries
Miriam Schulman
- Role And Responsibilities of Ethics and Compliance Officers
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Patrick Gnazzo and Kirk Hanson- Ethical Collapse: Signs and Cases in Point
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Marianne Jennings and Kirk Hanson- Firing the CEO: Lessons boards should learn
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Richard Moran and Kirk Hanson- Role of the Corporate Board (video)
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- Chairman of the Varian Board Richard Levy reflects on the elements of good corporate governance
Richard Levy and James Balassone
- Role And Responsibilities of Ethics and Compliance Officers
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- Differences between ethics and compliance and best practices for executives
Patrick Gnazzo and Kirk Hanson
- Ethical Collapse: Signs and Cases in Point
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- The "Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse" in business organizations
Marianne Jennings and Kirk Hanson
- Firing the CEO: Lessons Boards Should Learn
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- Ethical issues boards should consider when they need to fire the CEO
Richard Moran and Kirk Hanson
- A Good Sport? Do College Athletics Build Character
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- Nathan seems to have different values on and off the basketball court in this case study.
Jake Teeny
- Do Sports Build Character? (video)
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- Panel discussion on the role of sports in moral formation.
Matthew Savage, Christopher Kulp, and Zoe Kranzler
- Making the Grade
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- Should Alejandro take an easy A or a challenging course in his major?
Miriam Schulman
- Resume Inflation
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- Should a graduating senior stretch the truth on her resume?
Jake Teeny
- Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Ethical Challenges for Local Government
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- Cities debate the best way to deal with medical marijuana
Miriam Schulman
- Corporate Governance and Ethics: Conversations with the Delaware Court
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- Video interviews with justices from the Delaware Court of Chancery and Supreme Court
- Survival Guide for Thinking Catholics
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- A talk on conscience and the Roman Catholic life
Thomas Reese, S.J., Miriam Schulman
- Spark of Conscience Inflames Debate: Conscientious Refusals in Health Care
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- A conference held at Santa Clara University November 2011exploring conscientious refusals in health care
no author
- A Case of Conscientious Refusal: Rights and Responsibilities
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- A Pharmacist Refuses to Fill a Prescription for Contraception.
Margaret R. McLean
- Bishops' conscience model makes light of practical reason
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- Analysis of the role of conscience in political life by Center Campus Ethics Director David DeCosse, in the National Catholic Reporter
David DeCosse
- SF Bishop Robert McElroy Reflects on Conscience
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- What is the role of conscience in Catholic moral theology and what role does it play in making political decisions?
Miriam Schulman
- Body Image in Sports: What No One Seems to be Talking About
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- The problem of eating disorders for college athletes
Matt Savage
- Down So Long: Helping a Friend With Depression
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- Megan struggles to deal with her friend and college roommate's depression.
Jake Teeny
- Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas for Digital Journalists
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- Challenges for online media in the areas of newsgathering, accountability, transparency, metrics, and inclusion
Sally Lehrman
- Digital Journalism Ethics
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- Videos and other materials from a roundtable on ethical issues for online media
- Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Ethical Challenges for Cities
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- Ethical questions for municipal officials on allowing, siting, and monitoring medical marijuana dispensaries
- Ethical Responsibilities of Hospital Trustees
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- Presentation to 2012 annual member Governance Conference of Premier Inc.,
one the two largest health care group purchasing organizations in the country.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Ethics and Venture Capital
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- Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, co-founder of Asset Management, reflects on ethical challenges for start-ups and venture funds
Miriam Schulman
- Pay Attention: Using Study Drugs
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- Offered some Adderall by a friend with a prescription, a freshman weighs whether using study drugs is the right thing to do.
Jake Teeny
- Keeping Track of Mom
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- Ethical challenges in using motion sensor-based technology to monitor the elderly
Courtenay Bruce
- Sleeping Around
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- A case examining the ethics of casual sex
Jake Teeny
- The First Report
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- A college president must decide how to respond to a report of a faculty member's sexual misconduct
Kirk O. Hanson
- Too Close for Comfort
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- Conflicts of interest for a nonprofit organization
Kirk O. Hanson
- Four Ethical Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Sex
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- Issues for college students to consider about the place of sex in their lives
Miriam Schulman
- Coming to Grips with Guilt
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- A white collar felon describes how arrogance, greed, and resentment led to his crime.
Mark Faris, Hank Shea, Kirk O. Hanson
- Effective Boards
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- A three-part video conversation on corporate governance
Bob Finnochio and Lon Allan
- Social Media Create Ethical Dilemma
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- Former fraternity brother "Derek" asks "Mike" for a recommendation. Should Mike mention the exploits chronicled on Derek's Facebook page?
Judy Nadler
- LittleBrother is Watching You
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- New technologies allow employers to check whether employees are wasting time at recreational Web sites or sending unprofessional e-mails. But when do an employer's legitimate business interests become an unacceptable invasion of worker privacy?
Miriam Schulman
- Corporate Ethics, Governance and Social Responsibility
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- A study comparing European business practices to those in the United States conducted for the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Nathan E. Hurst
- E-mania: Ethical Approaches to E-mail Overload
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- E-mail behavior raises questions about how we treat each other and how we treat common resources.
Miriam Schulman
- Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Ethics of Product Usage
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- SCU Dirksen Professor in Ethics Manuel Velasquez discusses expanding notions of corporate responsibility for personal injury.
Anne Federwisch
- Ethical Risk Assessment: Crisis-prone or Crisis-prepared
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- Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson and SCU Assistant Professor of Management Shawn Berman describe a risk-assessment tool.
Anne Federwisch
- Present and Future of Social Networking
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- A panel exploring the ethical and social implications of social networking technology.
John Squires, Kaitlin Thompson, Shannon Vallor, Ma
- Sustaining Ernst & Young's Ethical Culture
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- Susan Sweet describes EYs process developing their Americas ethics program for more than 35,000 employees in North, Central and South America, Mexico, Israel, and Canada.
Anne Federwisch
- Reconstituting the Ethical Culture at Hewlett Packard
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- Summary of a presentation by Hewlett-Packard Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Jon Hoak on steps the company took to renew their commitment to ethics after the pretexting scandal.
Miriam Schulman
- Power and Ethics in the Executive Suite
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- A review of recent research on the effects of power and applications to the business world
Miriam Schulman
- Role of the CEO in Building an Ethical Organization
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- Panel discussion featuring Radha Basu (SupportSoft), Ken Denman (Openwave Systems), Robert Ewald (SGI), Mark Lonergan (Lonergan Partners)
Miriam Schulman
- Business Ethics, Fiduciary Responsibilities, and the Law
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- A conversation with J. Travis Laster, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, about the fiduciary duties of corporations. Interviewed by Ethics Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson, Laster discusses the role of incorporation in regulating business, whether fiduciary responsibilities extend beyond the shareholders, and how the law can chart a middle course between managers and shareholders.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Board Oversight of Compliance and Business Conduct Programs
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- Three different perspectives on setting the ethical tone of a company from the board level
W. Swenson, B. Finocchio, Jr., A. Muller, C.S. Par
- Building a High Performance Team: Creating an Ethical Culture (ppt)
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- Founder and CEO of Ariba uses that company as a case study for defining key principles in building an organization
Keith Krach
- Insolvency, Bankruptcy, and the Board
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- Practical suggestions for corporate board members on the ethical aspects of insolvency and bankruptcy
Tim Harris, partner, Morrison & Foerster
- Ethical Challenges in Developing Markets
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- Description of Nokia Siemens efforts to create a culture of ethics in international operations
Robert Weisberg
- Toward Stronger Ethics in Government Relations
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- The senior counselor to the chairman at Hill & Knowlton discusses lobbying.
Tom Hoog
- Taking Your Code to China
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- Why it is so difficult to apply Western companies' codes of conduct in China, and what the most successful companies are doing to make it work.
Kirk O. Hanson and Stephan Rothlin
- On the Front Lines of the War Against Corruption
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- Looks at global issues of bribery
Rob Weisberg, Global Ethics Officer, Nokia Siemens
- Risk Oversight: A View From the Audit Committee
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- Video and PowerPoint slides from a presentation on risk
Robert Finocchio, Jim Balassone, et al
- General Counsel's Role in Building an Ethical Organization (video)
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- Retired Agilent Technologies General Counsel Nordlund talks with Center Director Kirk Hanson
Craig Nordlund
- Role of the CFO in the Ethical Culture of an Organization
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- The CFO can become an ambassador for ethics throughout a corporation.
Miriam Schulman
- Internal Audit, Partner in Ethics
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- Chief legal officer of Millennium Management discusses making internal audit an integral part of an organization's ethical culture
Kirk Hanson, Simon Lorne
- Fiduciary Duty vs. Shareholder Empowerment
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- A three part video interview on corporate governance issues with Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court Myron Steele
Myron Steele, Kirk Hanson
- When a Physician Refuses to Transfer a Patient to Hospice
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- A Q&A about recourse for a patient whose doctor does not wish to facilitate hospice care.
Margaret R. McLean
- When Is a Contribution a Bribe?
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- A popular local businesswoman and philanthropist is found guilty of "pay to play" contributions to the mayor's reelection campaign. Should charities still accept her contributions?
Judy Nadler
- The Value of Giving
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- After all her Christmas gifts are purchased, Jessica wonders whether to get something for herself or give the rest of her money to charity.
Jake Teeny
- Leadership in Government Ethics (video)
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- Senior Fellow in Government Ethics speaks on leadership around values at a national conference at SMU.
Judy Nadler
- A Recycling Dilemma
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- Steve and his housemates have thrown a big party. When he gets up the next morning, he finds that his friends have bagged up all the trash without recycling. What should he do?
Callie Tepper, Jared Pizzo, Andrw Kells, Kyle Dand
- Entrepreneurship and Microfinance (video)
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- Matt Flannery, CEO and cofounder of the microfinance organization Kiva, spoke in the 2011-12 High Tech Ethics and Law series.
Matt Flannery
- What's in a Name?
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- The (fictional) town of Berkshire has named a plaza after its long-time mayor. Now the mayor has been convicted of taking kickbacks. Should the city change the plaza name?
Judy Nadler
- Sexting
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- Mary's boyfriend asks her to text him a nude photo of herself. Is there anything wrong with that?
Jacob Teeny
- Ethics Codes and Other Resources for Journalists
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- Bibliography of online resources
- Mayor Becomes an Undercover Citizen Journalist
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- Mayor Mike Winderof West Valley City, Utah, assumed an adopted identity to write the "good news" about his city in the local newspaper.
Judy Nadler
- Friendly Advice or Quid pro Quo
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- An employee of the Planning Department "recommends" particular contractors who offer him kickbacks.
Judy Nadler
- Unavoidable Dilemmas in Bioscience
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- Center Bioethics Director McLean raises top ethical problems facing scientists and offers a framework for addressing them.
Margaret R. McLean
- Should College Athletes Be Paid? (Case Study)
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- Jordan, who plays football for a big university, is having trouble making ends meet. Should he be compensated for the revenue he helps generate for his university?
Jacob Teeny
- Should College Athletes Be Paid? Savage on Sports Blog
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- Student athlete and blogger Matt Savage reflects on whether players should receive pay or benefits beyond tuition, room, and board.
Matt Savage
- Fairness and the California Redistricting Process
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- Redistricting Commissioner Angelo Ancheta and SCU Professor of Political Science Janet Flammang discuss the evolution of the new California plan.
Miriam Schulman
- Brief History of Redistricting in California Since 1970
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- SCU Professor of Political Science Janet Flammang traces the often contentious process of drawing new district lines.
Janet Flammang
- Fairness in Redistricting: Interview With a California Commissioner (video)
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- Center Senior Fellow in Government Ethics Nadler discusses the challenges that faced the California Citizens Redistricting Commission with Commissioner Ancheta
Judy Nadler and Angelo Ancheta
- Beyond Compliance: Globalization Demands More Effective Programs
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- Management of values in a business organization
Kirk O. Hanson
- Republic Lost (podcast)
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- An analysis of the corrupting power of money in American politics
Lawrence Lessig
- Blog, Tweet, and Post: Proceed With Caution
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- Social media tools can pose ethical problems for lawmakers
Judy Nadler
- Old Guard vs. New Guard
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- A dynamic new city manager comes into conflict with the previous city manager, now elected to the city council. One policy they disagree about: the need for a city code of ethics and values.
Judy Nadler
- The Drinking Age
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- David, a freshman, is re-evaluating his previous decision not to drink until he turns 21.
Jake Teeny
- Let Me See Your Grades
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- Juliana's parents expect her to show them her grades in college. Isn't it time for them to treat her as an adult?
Rebecca Bivona-Gutadauro
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: An Analysis of Ethics, Deepsea Drilling, and Risk
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- A Silicon Valley Engineer and SCU graduate student looks at the implications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Erich Eminhizer
- Land Use Decisions and Community Values
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- In this case study, city council must decide whether to allow a restaurant that features "scantily clad" waitresses to occupy a vacant storefront.
Judy Nadler
- Ethics at Noon: AIG Bonuses, Contractual Obligations, and Executive Compensation: Are There Ethical
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- ow do you determine what's a fair wage or salary? And how do you determine what's a fair distribution of wages and salaries? The recent controversy over the payment of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives of AIG raised these questions in sharp new ways. The controversy also occurred against the backdrop of the vast divide in recent years between the salaries of top American earners and the pay of all the rest. This panel discussion will explore this ethical issue, while also paying attention to its contractual and economic dimensions.
- Why Am I at College?
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- An incoming freshman questions whether she is ready for college in this video case.
- Oh, the Cleaners Will Get That
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- Whose responsibility is it to keep college common areas clean--the students who use them or the custodial staff?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- The Dealer in the Next Room
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- A student must decide what to do when he realizes his roommate is dealing drugs from their apartment.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- State Auditor's Report: Waste and Fraud or Checks and Balances?
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- Audit intended to identify and correct problems.
Judy Nadler
- Budgeting in Tough Economic Times
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- The August 2011 meeting of the Public Sector Roundtable focused on ethics and budgeting for city officials
- Budgeting in a Time of Fiscal Crisis
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- San Jose City Councilmember Sam Liccardo lays out the ethical issues for public officials when they must make difficult budget decisions.
Miriam Schulman
- Budgeting Is About Values
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- John Ellwood, professor of public policy at UC-Berkeley, discusses the difficulty in reaching consensus about values
Miriam Schulman
- Integrity and Ethical Leadership
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- General Anthony M. Taguba, US Army retired, author of an internal U.S. Army report on abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, talks with Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
Kirk Hanson
- I Want to Remain a Virgin
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- Katherine's boyfriend Max wants to express their growing love for each other sexually. Katherine has valued her virginity. What should she do?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Facebook Gossip or Cyberbullying
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- When Paige expresses her annoyance at her roommate in her Facebook status, is she cyberbullying?
Miriam Schulman
- Living Situation
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- Should Mo decide to live in an ethnically grouped dorm building?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Workplace Faith - Pitfalls and Possibilities?
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David W. Miller, Director, Princeton University Fa- Risks of Multi-tasking - Governance, Integrity, and Effectiveness
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F. Daniel Siciliano, Stanford School of Law and Di- Subdued by What We Conquered
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- An analysis of the green theology of Pope Benedict XVIs encyclical Caritas in Veritate (in the National Catholic Reporter)
David DeCosse
- Handling Council Critics
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- Does incivility violate a city's code of ethics?
Jason Wu
- Dangerous Curves: A Case on Cheating
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- Francesca sees friends cheating on a test, where the grades will be curved. Should she tell?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Rush
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- A look at the ethical questions in rushing a fraternity
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Should I Call the EMTs?
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- A student must decide whether to call for help when a friend passes out from drinking.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Major Decision
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- Do parents have the right to decide on their child's college major?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Inattention Is an Ethical Problem
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- Report on a talk on multi-tasking by Daniel Siciliano and Katharine Martin
Miriam Schulman
- Sexiled
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- Freshmen Brad and Wilson have to work out a fair way to share their room.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Party!
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- A pre-law student tries to balance his academic and social life.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Navigating the Minefield of Social Media
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- Sr. Mary Angela Shaughnessy explores cyberbullying, friending, and other social media topics for teachers.
Miriam Schulman
- The Slowdown Hits Home
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- When her family's financial situation changes, Kayla must decide whether to go to her first-choice, expensive college and allow her parents to dip into their retirement.
Rebecca Bivona Guttadauro
- What's OK in a Campaign Blog
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- Vitriolic posts from a hostile blogger lead a candidate's supporters to counter-attack.
Judy Nadler
- New Design for Haiti
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- SCU engineering students develop potential solution to housing problems
- 10 Milligrams (video)
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- Prize winning video on the use of study drugs on college campuses. From The Big Q contest for films on student ethics
Nicole Grazioli, Tara Khalilnaji, Jen LaPonte
- Adderall=Cheating?
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- The ethics of taking study drugs. Entry in The Big Q contest for films on student ethics
Robyn Louie
- Media's Effects on Body Image (video)
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- Commercials, movies, impact body image for students. Entry in The Big Q contest for films on student ethics
Kathryn Klein, Caitlin Whalen, Kristina Woodcock
- Student Debt and the Importance of College: An Ethics Case
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- A student reflects on whether taking out a tuition loan is responsible
Meghan Skarzynski
- Hook-Up Culture (video)
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- A look into how, as a result of changing technology, the world of dating has become more and more informal, leading to the hook-up culture we know today that is perpetuated by frequent drinking on and off campus.
Sara Phillips, Melissa Martin, Jenny Nicholson, Ke
- Exposed! (video)
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- An interesting take on the implications of revealing personal information online.
Sara Phillips, Misa Mascovich, Melissa Martin
- Workplace Faith--Synergy and Conflict (video)
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- Does faith have a role in business? An interview with the director of the Faith and Work Initiative at Princeton
David Miller
- Top Ten Ethical Issues for College Freshmen
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- From "Why Am I Here?" to "What About Cheating?" a list of typical ethical dilemmas for new students.
Miriam Schulman
- World of Warren
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- Warren is so involved in WoW that he rarely leaves his computer except to go to class. Is there anything ethically wrong with what he's doing?
Miriam Schulman
- Ethics and Your First Job in Business (video)
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- Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, talks with Meghan Skarzinski, a senior finance major at Santa Clara University and a Hackworth Fellow at the Ethics Center, about how to put values to work in business.
Kirk O. Hanson and Meghan Skarzynski
- Biotechnology and Ethics Class (video)
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- Students learn the science, social impact, and ethics behind advances in biotechnology
- Job Search Dilemma
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- A job applicant is offered a job that is not his first choice. Should he take it and continue looking?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics and the Economy
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- A bibliography and resources
- Ethics, Gifts, and Public Officials
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- A video conversation on gifts to public officials and public agencies.
Roman Porter, Michael Martello, Melinda Hamilton,
- My Life as an Engineer: The Search for Integrity
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- Adobe co-founder Charles (Chuck) Geschke reflects on the influence of Jesuit education and ethics on the continuing journey of his life.
Charles (Chuck) Geschke
- I Can't Get a C
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- A pre-med student considers copying the homework in Art History.
Miriam Schulman
- Evolving Vaccine Trials: Adaptive Informed Consent in the Global Context
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- Challenges of insuring that participants in the developing world understand clinical trials and consent freely
Brenda Everling
- Group Project
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- One member of a group project team is failing to carry her weight. What is the fair way to deal with members who don't do their fair share?
Miriam Schulman
- Ethics and the Wild
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- Reflections on Jack London's "Call of the Wild," and what it has to teach us about the environment
David DeCosse and Emily Hawley
- Value of Life: Is It Ethical to Consider the Cost of Treatment in Medical Decision Making?
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- The role of financial burden in ethical decision making
Margaret R. McLean
- Delinquency or Mental Health Problem? Reflection
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- Psychologist and professor Thomas Plante discusses the case of Pablo Sanchez
Thomas Plante
- Delinquency or Mental Health Problem? The Case of Pablo Sancez
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- Providing culturally competent mental health care
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Not Hungry
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- A college student must decide what to do when her roommate shows signs of having anorexia.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- Theme Party
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- A "Fresh off the Boat" party pokes fun at Asians.
- Friends With Benefits
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- When alcohol and sex mix, two students wake up angry. Who is responsible?
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- New Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas for Elected Officials
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- The use of social media and new forms of conflicts of interest top the update of ethical issues facing locally elected public servants.
- Poster Wars: When Is Speech Offensive?
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- Dorm floormates come into conflict over a political poster.
Rebecca Bivona-Guttadauro
- The Case of the Reference Request
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- A manager is asked to fudge on a reference for a former employee
Jim Balassone
- Start-up Ethics
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- Nearbuy Systems CEO and CFO talk about the particular ethical challenges in starting a company.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- How to Fire Your Mother
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- When a company must downsize, management faces tough decisions. Nearbuy Systems CEO Byran Wargo and CFO Kevin Beals talk about the painful choices they faced, including the need to let go of the CEO's mother.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Diane Ravitch Discusses Dangers of Corporate Education Reform
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- Education historian and policy analyst Diane Ravitch looks at charter schools, merit pay, and other proposals for education reform.
Miriam Schulman
- 'Fair' is in the eye of the beholder
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- The public pension reform debate hinges of different definitions of the concept of fairness.
Judy Nadler
- Video Games and the Future
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- Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal talks about how to harness games to solve real-world problems
Jane McGonigal interviewed by Chad Raphael
- Critics Miss Deeper Truth of a Fully Human Jesus Christ
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- An exploration of the controversyat the Smithsonian over the withdrawal from an exhibit of a video featuring ants crawling on a crucifix.
David Decosse
- Business and Human Rights
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- A discussion of the UN's "Protect-Respect-Remedy Framework" for companies and governments addressing human rights issues.
- Five Ways to Think Ethically
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson reviews five classic approaches to ethics: the greatest good; rights and duties; fairness; virtue; and the common good.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Four Strategies for Managing Ethics
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson performs a comparative analysis of strategies companies use to manage ethics: relying on employee values, compliance, ethics exhortation, and managing values.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Am I Responsible?
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson offers five tests for business people to determine whether, in any particular case, they are responsible for acting.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Creating an Ethical Business Culture: The Role of the Board
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- Two introductory videos on what boards of directors must to to foster an ethical culture in their organizations
Michael L. Hackworth
- Hackworth Grant Winners Winter 2011
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- What is Business Ethics?
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- An introduction to ethical concepts and how they can be applied in a business context.
Kirk O. Hanson
- What Works to Stop Bullying
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- Practical steps for schools
Steve Johnson
- Thinking Ethically About MRSA
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- A set of materials on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus for high school and college coaches, trainers, and athletic directors
- MRSA: Best Ethical Practices (pdf)
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- Core ethical concerns for prevention and management of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Margaret R. McLean
- Doing Business in Asia: The Ethical Challenges
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- Remarks from the seminar, "Worlds in Collision? East Meets West: Doing Business and Investing in Asia"
Kirk O. Hanson
- Global Humanitarian Crises and the Role of Catholic Universities
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- The director of campus ethics at the Center looks at the many ways--from service to grappling with profound questions like How can a good God permit such suffering?
David DeCosse
- Easy on the Wallet or Easy on the Earth: A Case About Ethics in Sourcing
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- A company must decide whether to order cheap shirts from China or expensive shirts from a local eco-friendly manufacturer.
Meghan Skarzynski
- Privacy: Rights, Responsibilities, and Threats
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- A look at Hewlett Packard's privacy strategy
Scott Taylor
- Towards an Ethical Culture
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- Identifying key elements of an effective ethics and compliance program
Kirk O. Hanson
- An Ethics Case About Managing MRSA: Stage 1
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- The ethical issues at various stages of an outbreak of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Jack Penner
- Ethics for Undergraduates; Resources for Parents
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- Information for Santa Clara University parents on the University's ethics programs
- How the Laws of California Are Really Made: Sponsored Legislation
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- More Than I Could Ever Describe: Gender, Culture, India
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- An SCU student spends a year living in an orphanage in India
Sarah Bradley
- Creating an Ethical Business Culture: The Role of the Board
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- Two introductory videos on what boards of directors must to to foster an ethical culture in their organizations
Michael L. Hackworth
- IPS Stem Cells: New Ethical Quandaries
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- Induced pluripotent stem cells raise questions about cloning, privacy, and informed consent
Sally Lehrman
- Principles for Handling Ethics Crises
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- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and University Professor of Organizations and Society, shares his observations about Leadership and Corporate Governance.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Global Ethics in Corporations
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- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and University Professor of Organizations and Society, shares his observations about Leadership and Corporate Governance.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Success Factors for Corporate Ethics Programs
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- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and University Professor of Organizations and Society, shares his observations about Leadership and Corporate Governance.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Importance of a CEO Who Cares
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- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and University Professor of Organizations and Society, shares his observations about Leadership and Corporate Governance.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Response to Friedman's View on Business
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- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and University Professor of Organizations and Society, shares his observations about the Public's Trust in Business.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Corporate Governance
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- Three perspectives on governance from the Center conference, "The Accountable Corporation."
Tom McCoy, Katharine Martin, Stephen F. Diamond
- Perspectives on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board of Directors for Corporate Culture
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- A report on the best board practices delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Meeting
Vail Leadership Institute
- Board Governance and Culture Research Report
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- A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Partnership Meeting
Vail Leadership Institute
- Ethics and Brand Value: Strategic Differentiation
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- A PowerPoint presentation given at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Meeting
John Paluszek
- Business Ethics in China
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- Stephan Rothlin, general secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing, discusses Chinese approaches to corruption.
Miriam Schulman
- Sarbanes Oxley After Three Years
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- A Powerpoint presentation by a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate practice
Mark Bertelsen
- Character Mentoring
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- A PowerPoint presentation on character formation in a business context
keywords, business ethics, character, role model
Dennis Moberg
- Understanding Rule Bending
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- A PowerPoint presentation on the Devaluation of compliance in the DOD
Leslie Sekerka
- 24/7 Workplace Connectivity: A Hidden Ethical Dilemma
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- An exploration of the effect of digital technology on workers' health and relationships
Charles F. Piazza
- Speaking Truth to Power: A White Paper
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- O'Toole, aresearch professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, explores how to encourage candor within organizations.
James O'Toole
- Managing Moral Responsibility for Product Use
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- Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics Manuel Velasquez asks the question, Is a company responsible for the uses to which customers put its products?
Miriam Schulman
- Making the case that your program works (ppt)
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- The Editor of Ethikos magazine talks about what makes a credible ethics and compliance program
Joe Murphy, CCEP
- Zimbardo's Theories Applied to Business
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- Psychologist Philip Zimbardo proposed 10 traps that organizations inadvertently create to ensnare good people in bad behavior.
Cameron Bilger
- Ethics and Lobbying in Washington and at the State Level
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- The vice president for government affairs at Applied Materials outlines an agenda for ethical and effective lobbying.
Gary Fazzino
- Giving Wise Advice
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- Results of an empirical study on wisdom and ethics
Dennis Moberg
- Twitter: An Insider's View
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- A talk by Twitter general counsel.
Alexander Macgillivray
- Twitter: An Insider's View
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- Twitter General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray headlines the first event in the 2010-2011 IT, Ethics, and Law Forum, now in its fifth year. The series is a collaboration between the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the High Tech Law Institute, and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.
- Ethics at Noon: Ethics, Lobbying, and How the Laws of California Are Really Made
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- Karen de Sa, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, and Judy Nadler, senior fellow in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, discuss the influence of lobbyists on lawmaking in California. Nadler is the former mayor of Santa Clara, Calif. De Sa is the author of a Mercury News series on Sponsored Bills in Sacramento. Participants will include members of the Center's Public Sector Roundtable.
- Thinking Ethically about MRSA
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- Combatting MRSA, a virulent, antibiotic-resistant staph infection, is a serious medical challenge for coaches and trainers. Spread mostly by skin-to-skin contact, the bacteria can easily be passed from one player to another on the field or in the locker room. But implementing best practices for preventing the infection also has an ethical side: It takes moral courage to bench a star player because he or she is infected.
- Difficulty of Being Good: Business Ethics and the Subtle Art of Dharma
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- A talk by Gurcharan Das, author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (Penguin 2009). His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC. He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and other papers and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. Das was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning).
- Sustainability Initiative at Santa Clara
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- As part of the Sustainability Initative at Santa Clara, Professor Shrader-Frechette will offer a lecture on Environmental Injustice and Catholic Social Ethics: The Reality of the Issues and the Scope of our Response. Dr. Shrader-Frechette will also offer the keynote presentation for Western Conversations 2010: Sustainability and Environmental Justice on Jesuit Campuses,hosted by Santa Clara University.
- Ethics at Noon: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Precautionary Principle
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- A discussion of ethics and risk in the aftermath of a disaster. Panelists will be:
Kenneth Manaster, Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good, SCU Law
Michael Meyer, Professor, SCU Philosophy
Keith Warner, Professor, SCU Religious Studies and Center for Science, Technology, and Society
- Ethics at Noon
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- Taking My Company's Business Ethics to China: Challenges and Opportunities
- Oil Spill (podcast)
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- Managing possibly catastrophic risk
Emerging Issues Group
- Law and the Catholic School
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- Review of a talk on Catholic schools and the law by Mary Angela Shaughnessy, SCN, presented at the 2010 Catholic Principals Institute
Miriam Schulman
- War Against Corruption
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- Ethical challenges for companies doing business abroad. Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, interviews Rob Weisberg, Global Ethics Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks.
- Conscious Capitalism
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- There is a form of capitalism that actually is virtuous. Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, interviews James O'Toole, Professor of Ethics at Daniels School of Business on conscious capitalism.
- Privacy: Rights, Responsibilities, and Threats
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- Stewarding customer information and providing consumers with meaningful choice are business responsibilities. Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, interviews Scott Taylor, chief privacy officer, Hewlett-Packard, on privacy
- Ethical Challenges of Doing Business in China
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- Kirk Hanson interviews Stephan Rothlin on the challenges of doing business in China
- Fraud in Financial Reporting - Causes and Solutions
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- Preventing fraud through encouraging finance professionals to express concerns to superiors. Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, interviews David Price, audit partner with Ernst & Young
- Role of Internal Audit in Creating an Ethical Culture
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- Internal Audit, as an extension of a board Audit Committee can help set the ethical tone of the organization. Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, interviews Mark Orton, vice president for internal audit, Agilent
- Is the Common Good Still Possible?
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- Podcast of a May 12, 2010, talk by Peter Schrag, former editorial page editor and columnist, The Sacramento Bee
Peter Schrag
- Taking my Business to China
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- Podcast of a May 17, 2010, talk by Stephan Rothlin, S.J.
Stephan Rothlin, S.J.
- Oil Spill: Managing Risk Ethically
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- Podcast of an Emerging Issues Group Meeting on the Oil Spill.
Emerging Issues Group
- Clergy Sexual Abuse
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- Podcast on an Emerging Issues Group Meeting on Clergy Sexual Abuse.
Emerging Issues Group
- August 6, 2010 Roundtable: Government Pensions
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- Summary of a Public Sector Roundtable Meeting on Government Pensions
- Citizens United: The Supreme Court and Campaign Finances
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- Podcast of an Emerging Issues Group Meeting on The Supreme Court and Campaign Finances.
Emerging Issues Group
- End of Life IT Management
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- Managing the reuse and disposal of outdated computer equipment is the subject of this video from Cisco, featuring Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson .
Cisco News
- Thinking Ethically About Government Pensions
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- Various ethical approaches are used to raise pertinent questions about the best way to accomplish public pension reform
Miriam Schulman
- Tomando una decision etica
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- Metodologia para la toma decisiones eticas del Centro de Eticas Aplicadas Markkula.
- Ethics of Business: Where and Why It Can Go Wrong
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- Video interview of Center Executive Director Kirk Hanson about cycles of ethical crises in business and what business schools can do to promote ethical behavior in students. From the Cranfield School of Management
Kirk Hanson interviewed by Frank Horwitz
- Public Trust in Business
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- Center Director Kirk Hanson gives a seminar for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics on Public Trust in Business.
Kirk Hanson
- HIV Vaccine Development: A Call for Justice
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- The case for vaccine development as the best approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Erin Cleveland
- Outbreak: Discussion Module
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- Materials on developing pharmaceuticals for the Developing World, based on the case, The Outbreak, on this Web site.
Kari Kjos
- Taking Stock of Neglected Diseases
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- Only 10 percent of global health research is dedicated to conditions responsible for 90 percent of the worldwide burden of disease.
Kari Kjos
- Developing a Code of Ethics for Student Government: How-to guide
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- This How-To Guide outlines strategies to effectively develop and implement a code of ethics and values for your student government.
Daniel Solomon
- Whistle Blowing: The Good, the Bad, and...
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- Michael Winston describes his experience as a whistle blower at Countrywide in an interview with Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson
Kirk Hanson
- Insider Trading Enforcement
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- A definition of insider trading and tips on preventing the problem
Miriam Schulman
- The Case of the Million Dollar Decision
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- A company is planning to expand in a country where bribery is a normal part of doing business.
Michael Hackworth, Thomas Shanks
- Stopping Corporate Fraud
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- Joseph Grundfest, former SEC commissioner, addresses the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership.
Miriam Schulman
- Criminologists Needed
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- A criminologist's look at financial scandals.
William K. Black
- Keeping the SEC on a Starvation Diet
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- Insufficient funding for SEC contributes to corporate scandals.
William K. Black
- Where are honest business leaders when this country needs them?
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- Can Americans really count on the ethics of the nation's business leaders to protect the average investor?
Rob Elder
- What Really Went Wrong With Enron? A Culture of Evil?
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- A panel of Santa Clara University Business Ethicists reflect on the reasons behind the Enron scandal.
Business Ethicists Panel
- Lessons from the Enron Scandal
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- An interview with Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Enron: What Ever Happened to Going Down with the Ship?
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- The responsibility of executives for company failures.
Miriam Schulman
- WorldCom
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- What went wrong at WorldComm? Sweetheart loans to executives and a growth-through-acquisitions strategy are suggested as contributors to this business scandal.
Dennis Moberg and Edward Romar
- Repeating the Past
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- Learning the wrong lessons from the Savings & Loan crisis.
William K. Black
- Enron: We Slept Through Class
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- Lessons on ethics from the S&L debacle of the 1980s are being relearned--painfully--in recent financial scandals.
William K. Black
- Link Between Moral and Market Values
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- Market value accounting and fraud.
William K. Black
- Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations
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- How can businesses encourage employees to report ethical lapses?
Lilanthi Ravishankar
- Surviving a Federal Criminal Investigation
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- PowerPoint presentation on FBI investigations of white collar crime.
Jeffrey Bornstein, Tamara Neiman
- Curbing Corruption Around the Globe
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- Summary of a presentation by Glenn Ware, chief investigative counselor for the World Bank, on the bank's Department of Institutional Integrity
Anne Federwisch
- Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing (And More!)
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- An update on how organizations can set up mechanisms to identify wrongdoing
Carl R. Oliver and Francis J. Daly
- Control Fraud at Rite Aid
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- The executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention discusses what went wrong at Rite Aid (pdf)
William Black
- Exploring Ethical Lapses During the Rite Aid Crisis
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- Former Rite Aid COO and interim CEO Timothy Noonan gives a frank account of an ethical lapse that he wished he had avoided
Anne Federwisch
- Crisis at Sunrise Medical
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- Former Sunrise CEO describes a 1994-95 accounting fraud in one of the companys divisions, exploring the impact, causes, and lessons learned (podcast).
Richard Chandler
- Identifying and Investigating Fraud and Corruption
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- A presentation on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other international anti-corruption laws
Bob Mattson and Craig Martin, Partners, Morrison &
- Insider Trading: Law, Trust, and Prevention
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- A definition of and scenarios about insider training, plus suggestions about what businesses can do to discourage it
- Embellishing The Details
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- A student journalist considers whether to fabricate to make a point.
Jake Teeny
- Board's Role in Ensuring an Ethical Corporate Culture (video)
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- What role should the Board have in assessing, maintaining and even improving the corporations ethical culture? And exactly what is ethical culture ? between ethical culture and performance?
Michael Hackworth
- Safety, Corporate Responsibility, and the Oil Spill
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- Lessons from the oil spill on managing corporate behavior
Kirk O. Hanson
- Deep Pockets
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- Materials on how local governments weigh whether or not to defend against litigation
- Deep Pockets in the Public Sector
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- When should a city defend against litigation, and when should it settle? A look at the ethical issues.
Miriam Schulman
- Public Sector Roundtable Ethics Hot Spots, May 2010
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- Challenges facing public officials
- Associated Student Government Code of Ethics and Values
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- Basic standards of ethical behavior for personal and professional life signed by all members of the SCU student government
Daniel Solomon
- Business Ethics in China: Resources
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- Collection of materials on business ethics in China from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Catholic Social Teaching and White Privilege in the Age of Obama
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- Podcast of a talk January 7, 2010 by
Alex Mikulich, Research Fellow, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University, New Orleans.
Alex Mikulich
- Haiti, Chile, and the Challenge of Humanitarian Disasters: A Hands-On View From Catholic Relief Serv
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- Podcast of a May 6, 2010, talk by Paul Miller of Catholic Relief Services
Paul Miller
- Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Hierarchy: Theological Perspectives
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- Podcast of a presentation April 28, 2010, by the Jesuit Community Professor of Religious Studies at SCU
Paul Crowley, SJ
- MBA Oath
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- Podcast discussion of the effort by MBA students to promote a pledge to create value ethically and responsibly
Center Emerging Issues Group
- Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Hierarchy: Organizational Perspectives
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- Podcast of a presentation April 29, 2010, by the executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Kirk O. Hanson
- Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Hierarchy: Pastoral Perspectives
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- Podcast of a talk April 28 by the Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of San Jose
Linda Bearie
- Consumer Protection Reform
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- Podcast of a discussion on informed consent in the context of consumer protection reform
Emerging Issues Group
- Health Care Reform and Social Justice
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- Blue Shield of California CEO Bruce Bodaken discusses the ethical issues in various proposals for health care reform
Bruce Bodaken
- Searching for Whitopia: White Enclaves in America and the Problem of the Common Good
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- Talk given on October 27, 2009.
Rich Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Demos Institute, and Author: "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America" (October 2009).
- Astrobiology, Exploration, and Ethics
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- Talk given on October 29, 2009
Dr. Christopher McKay, Planetary Scientist, Space Science Division, NASA Ames; Dr. Margaret McLean, Director, Health Care and Biotechnology Program, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Dr. Margaret Race, Principal Scientist, SETI Institute
- Health Care Reform and Social Justice
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- Talk given on November 5 2009
Bruce Bodaken, Chairman, President, and CEO, Blue Shield of California, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Should the United States Promote Democracy Throughout the World?
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- Talk given on November 19, 2009.
Professor Cynthia Boaz, Political Science, Sonoma State; Professor Jane Curry, SCU Political Science; Professor Farid Senzai, SCU Political Science
- California: A State of Turmoil
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- Talk given on February 3, 2010.
Dan Walters, Political Columnist, Sacramento Bee.
- 'Charity in Truth': Implications of an Encyclical for Business, Higher Education, and the Public
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- Talk given on February 17, 2010.
Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and University Professor of Organizations and Society; Professor Kristin Heyer, SCU Religious Studies; James Stormes, S.J., Lo Schiavo Chair in Catholic Studies and Social Thought, University of San Francisco
- Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships: Reflections on Markets and the Bottom Billion
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- Talk given on February 24, 2010.
Professor Dennis Moberg, Wilkinson Professor of Management and Ethics, SCU Management, and Nicholas Santos, S.J., Visiting Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Value of an Independent Catholic Press: A Perspective From the National Catholic Reporter
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- Talk given on March 8, 2010.
Tom Fox, Editor, National Catholic Reporter
- Ethical Dimensions of Informed Consent
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- Talk given on April 5, 2010.
Robert Audi, Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame
- Civility in a Fractured Society
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- Talk given on April 6, 2010.
James Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities and former Republican Congressman from Iowa
- Ethical Dimensions of Informed Consent
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- A talk by Robert Audi.
April 5, 2010
- Civility in a Fractured Society
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- A talk by Jim Leach.
April 6, 2010
- What the Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization Means for Law and Policy
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- A Talk by Professor Paul Ohm.
April 7, 2010.
- Obama Administration's Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership Initiative
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- Alexia Kelley, director of the federal Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, speaks on faith-based initiatives.
April 29, 2010
- Fair Trade Health: Access to Essential Drugs for the Poor
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- A talk by Nicole Hassoun.
May 4, 2010
- Is the Common Good Still Possible: Reflections on Immigration and Politics in California
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- Peter Schrag reflects on the current difficulties of California politics in light of his new book, "Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America" (University of California Press, May 2010).
May 12, 2010
- Taking My Company's Business Ethics to China: Challenges and Opportunities
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- A presentation by Kirk O. Hanson, executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and Stephan Rothlin, S.J., secretary general, Center of Business Ethics in China.
May 17, 2010
- Paul Miller, Foreign Aid Advisor for Catholic Relief Services
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- Santa Clara Responds to Global Crises: Sharing Lessons Learned in Haiti
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- Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Hierarchy
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- A panel on the ethical, theological, and pastoral challenges presented by clergy sexual abuse
Kirk Hanson, Paul Crowley, Linda Bearie
- Angels in the Dust
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- Film showing and discussion on the AIDS crisis in South Africa
- Savior Siblings: A Case Study Based on My Sister's Keeper
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- Using the movie "My Sister's Keeper," this case study reviews the science and ethics behind designer babies
Kari Kjos
- Later Round Financing in a Troubled Economy
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- A seminar co-sponsored by Morrison & Foerster
- Organ Transplantation: Protecting Donor Dignity
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- An exploration of organ transplantation after cardiac death
Margaret R. McLean
- Tangled Web
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- Editors meet to discuss how to hold ethics standards high in the face of sweeping changes in how newsrooms work
Jerry Ceppos
- Framework for Ethical Decision Making
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Scholars offer steps to consider in making an ethical decision.
Manuel Velasquez, Michael J. Meyer, Thomas Shanks,
- Evolving Landscape of Advanced-Illness Care
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- As end-of-life care enters what many are calling its "second wave," hospice and palliative care services in the United Sates continue to expand, bringing better quality of life at the end of life to increasing numbers of individuals and families. Patients and families are more often achieving the kinds of outcomes they say matter mostbetter symptom management, clearer communication about the patients condition, greater sensitivity to spiritual and cultural issues, and control over the site of death.
- Compassion in Action: The Evolving Landscape of Advanced-Illness Care
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- This conference brings together leading experts who will examine key issues in contemporary advanced-illness care.
Mar. 22, 2010
- Gifts to Lawmakers and Public Employees: Evolving Policies
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- The director of the California Fair Political Practices Commission and government officials discuss behested payments, transparency, and gift policies
- Yael Dayan
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- Yael Dayan's biography.
- Gifts to Public Officials
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- Discussion from a meeting of the Public Sector Roundtable
- Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships
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- Reflections on Markets and the Bottom Billion
Dennis Moberg and Nicholas Santos, S.J.
- Ethics at Noon: Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships
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- Reflections on Markets and the Bottom Billion
February 24, 2010
- Ethics at Noon: The Value of an Independent Catholic Press
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- A Perspective From the National Catholic Reporter
March 8, 2010
- Reducing the Risk of White Collar Crime (video)
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- Former federal prosecutor discusses preventing corporate wrongdoing
Hank Shea
- An Introduction to Caritas in Veritate
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- An outline of the key themes of the papal ecyclical on economic issues
Kirk O. Hanson
- Health Care Reform: A Case for the Young and Healthy
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- A case study raising questions of fairness and personal responsibility in insurance coverage for young people.
Kari Kjos
- When Official Roles Conflict
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- A set of case studies on conflicts of interest for local officials
- Whom Do I Represent? Local and Regional Public Service
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- A case study of a councilmember serving on the county transit board
Judy Nadler
- Serving the Greater Good: A Conflict Between Local and State Responsibilities
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- A case study of a councilmember invited to serve on a statewide task force
Judy Nadler
- Social Media: Possibilities and Challenges for Local Governments
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- Ethical issues concerning the uses of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social media by government officials
- Public Sector Roundtable Ethics Hot Spots, Nov. 2009
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- Web 1 and 2: Ethical Issues for Government Officials
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- A look at access and transparency issues created by the use of social media by public servants
- Medical Amnesty and Responsibility
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- Three questions for campuses considering a medical amnesty policy
Kari Kjos
- Leading an Ethical Business Life
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- A talk Nov. 15 by Kirk O. Hanson, Center executive director.
- Minds for Sale: Ubiquitous Human Computing and the Future of the Internet
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- Report on a talk by Jonathan Zittrain on crowdsourcing
- Ethics: Beyond Codes and Disclosure Forms
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- Presentation to 32 Speakers of State Houses of Representatives at the 2009 National Speakers Conference hosted by the State Legislative Leaders Foundation, Sea Island, Georgia. October 22, 2009
Kirk Hanson
- Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas of Pandemic Flu
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- Questions for policy makers preparing for pandemics
Kirk O. Hanson
- Torture: Is the Ticking Bomb Scenario the Right Approach
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- Transcript of a discussion on torture in the Center's Emerging Issues Group
- Markkula Prize
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- An award for SCU seniors making an outstanding contribution in applied ethics
- Good Life: A Student Ethics Club
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- Club for undergraduates looks at ethics in everyday life
- Successfully Serving as a City Council Member and a Non-profit Board Member
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- Three brief cases illustrating conflicts between non-profit and public service
Robin Lowe, Judy Nadler, Eric Vail
- Two Views of a Budget
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- A case study for state officials on resolving a budget crisis
Judy Nadler
- Red Light, Green Light for State Legislators
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- Brief cases highlight ethical dilemmas for state officials
Judy Nadler
- Social Justice
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- Reflection questions address, "What do we mean when we talk about social justice?"
Noelle Lopez
- Be Not Afraid: Catholic Views of Advanced Care Planning
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- Clergy and religious comment on end-of-life directives
Miriam Schulman
- Hospital's Ethical Obligation to the Uninsured
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- Reflection on the case of a patient with Crohn's disease
Nick Welter
- Duty of the Physician to an Uninsured Patient
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- Reflection on the case of a patient with Crohn's disease
Ella Sanman
- When Doing Good May Be Doing Wrong
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- Four scenarios on potential conflicts between public service and work with non-profits
Judy Nadler
- The Case of Madisyn Whitfield: Chronic Illness and the Uninsured
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- A young woman suffering from Crohn's disease cannot afford treatment.
Anna Kozas
- Serving Two Masters: Discussion of the Cases
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- Responses to cases illustrating conflicts of interest
- Emerging Ethical Issues for Local Government Officials
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- Serving Two Masters: Government and Non-Profit Service
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- LeeAnn Pelham, executive director of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, looks at potential conflicts of interest.
- Ethics Roundtable for Locally Elected Officials
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- A program in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Role of Friends in a Medical Emergency
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- Reflection on the case of a patient with Crohn's disease
Richelle Neal
- Hackworth Research Grant Winners, Spring 2009
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- Winners of the Hackworth Research Grant for Spring 2009
- Honoring Our Students
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- The Ethics Center awards 2009 prizes to top students
- Anatomy of a Stick-up (video)
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- A discussion of shareholder derivatives litigation
Michael L. Hackworth, Erik Olson, and William Sher
- Catholic School Principals' Institute: Summer Institute
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- Santa Clara University's Catholic School Principal's Institute is an engaging program, both reflective and issues-oriented, for principals and administrators in Catholic elementary and high schools.
- Ethics Camp: Ethics Camp Express 2009
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- This 2-day camp is for teachers, counselors, and administrators in alternative, continuation, special, correctional, and general education programs for at-risk students and juvenile offenders.
- Memory and the Web
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- We live in a period where it appears that everything from our fleeting thoughts and casual pictures to our professional output is being stored somehow, somewhere, on the web. In this talk, Dr. Bowker questions the reality of the web being a 'mirror' of society and discusses the ethics and morality of web memory.
- Regan Lecture: Autonomy and the History of American Bioethics
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- Dr. Jonsen is a biomedical ethicist and author. He is Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Washington, School of Medicine, where he was Chairman of the Department of Medical History and Ethics from 1987-1999, and currently is Co-Director of the Program in Medicine and Human Values at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
- Ethics at Noon: Moral Realism and Moral Facts
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- Professor Christopher Kulp will be giving a lecture on Moral Realism and Moral Facts.
Christopher Kulp is an associate professor for the Santa Clara University Department of Philosophy.
- Ethics at Noon: Brain-Boosting Drugs and the Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
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- In a recent article in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, Hank Greely, professor of law at Stanford University, and colleagues called for "a presumption that mentally competent adults should be able to engage in cognitive enhancement using drugs." Greely will discuss their conclusions at this lunch-hour presentation.
- Ethics and Education Forum: K-12 Education, the California State Budget Crisis, and Ethical Choices
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- Nancy Kotowski, Ph.D. will be giving a talk on K-12 Education, the California State Budget Crisis, and Ethical Choices for Schools.
- Ethics at Noon: Ethical Challenges and Choices in Reporting Social Scientific Research
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- Assistant Professor Laura Ellingson from the SCU Department of Communication will be giving a lecture on the Ethical Challenges and Choices in Reporting Social Scientific Research.
- Future of International Criminal Justice
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- A talk by M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and Nobel Prize nominee for his work on the creation of the International Criminal Court.
- Ethics at Noon: Bailouts, Fairness, and Moral Hazard: Ethical Challenges in Dismal Economic Times
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- A Presentation by:
Professor Alexander Field, SCU Economics
Professor Kirk Hanson, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Professor William Sundstrom, SCU Economics.
- Parable of the Good Samaritan as a Model of the Modern Business Executive
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- A talk and discussion with Father Max Oliva, S.J., MBA visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for APplied Ethics.
- Ethics at Noon: The Salvadoran Jesuit Murders: An Update on the Case and on the Reach of Internatio
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- The Salvadoran Jesuit Murders: An Update on the Case and on the Reach of International Justice.
A lecture presented by: Almudena Bernabeu, Center for Justice and Accountability and Professor Beth Van Schaack of the SCU School of Law.
- Ethics at Noon: A Case Study in Research Ethics: Is Grief Counseling Harmful?
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- Dale G. Larson (Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley; B.A., University of Chicago) is a professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. Larson has published extensively on grief and grief counseling and is the author of The Helper's Journey: Working With People Facing Grief, Loss, and Life-Threatening Illness.
- Ethics at Noon: Non-Paying Patients and the Right to Health Care: The Challenge of Trauma Medicine
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- Non-Paying Patients and the Right to Health Care: The Challenge of Trauma Medicine in United States a lecture by Harry Teter.
- Protecting Personal Identities Online
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- On-line networking sites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace, allow
friends, acquaintances and/or professionals to connect and communicate with each other and have become an essential part of many people's daily lives. While most of these communications and interactions enrich our lives and enhance our business productivity, sometimes they can become problematic, especially when inappropriate or harmful information is published online. Erika Rottenberg, General Counsel of LinkedIn, a professional networking site with over 34 million members, representing 170 industries in 200 countries, will talk about opportunities and pitfalls posed by on-line networking sites and how we can be smart users of the sites.
- Ethics at Noon: No Trespassing? Ownership of Land, the Legal Concept of Adverse Possession, and t
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- Sometimes known as squatters rights, the principle of adverse possession basically allows someone who has possessed land for an extended period to claim it as their own. SCU Professor of Political Science Timothy Lukes and attorney Minh Hoang apply the idea of adverse possession to the current national debate on immigration reform.
- Social Justice as a Moral Concept
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- Hackworth Fellow Noelle Lopez reflects on the place of social justice in the SCU experience and the lack of a shared understanding about what the term means.
Noelle Lopez
- Slow Food
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- SCU students celebrate slow food and the pleasure of cooking and eating together
- Perspectives on Cognitive Enhancement
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- Hank Greely, professor of law at Stanford University, and the Emerging Issues Group at the Ethics Center look at the ethics of taking brain-boosting drugs.
- Dignity of Being Human
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- An exploration of Catholic approaches to artificial nutrition and hydration (in "Health Progress).
Gerald D. Coleman, SS; Margaret R. McLean; Joan Ma
- Thinking Ethically About the Environment
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- An introduction to a short course in environmental ethics
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- An autobiography of your relationship with the Earth
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- Lesson 1 in the environmental ethics short course asks students to tell the story of their experiences, emotions, and commitments to the Earth
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Distinctiveness of environmental ethics
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- Lesson 2 in the environmental ethics short course shows the connection between environmental ethics and personal or social ethics
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Using ethical principles in moral reasoning about the environment
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- Lesson 3 in the environmental short course reviews justice and sustainability; sufficiency and compassion; solidarity and participation.
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Ethical Dimension of Sustainability
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- Lesson 4 in the environmental ethics short course offers a definition of sustainability and its relationship to justice
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Environmental Justice
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- Lesson 5 in the environmental ethics short course explores the impact of environmental degradation on low income communities and the right to a clean environment
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Environmental Virtue Ethics
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- Lesson 6 in the environmental ethics short course describes the classic virtues in light on the environmental crisis and describes how to cultivate new environmental virtues.
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Role of Science in Environmental Ethics
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- Lesson 7 in the environmental ethics short course looks at the relationship of scienceparticularly ecologyto environmental ethics.
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Precaution and the responsibility principle
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- Lesson 8 in the environmental ethics short course examines the idea that decision-making in relation to potentially catastrophic environmental risks demands a special precautionary approach
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Climate ethics
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- Lesson 9 in the environmental ethics short course confronts climate disruption
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Religious environmental ethics
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- Lesson 10 in the environmental ethics short course looks at the idea that the Earth has religious significance and that humans have religious obligations to care for its creatures
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Eating and agricultural ethics
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- Lesson 11 in the environmental ethics short course explores food in an ethical context.
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- An environmental ethics decision-making guide
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- Lesson 12 in the environmental ethics short course introduces an ethical decision making model
Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse
- Student Choices: My Poster, My Identity
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- A political poster creates conflicts on a dorm floor.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Student Choices: My Homework or Our Homework
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- When does collaboration become cheating?
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Student Choices: What Will Sex Mean?
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- Katherine wants to remain a virgin.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Facing Conflicts of Interest in Troubled Times (Webinar)
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- A panel including a former chief accountant of the SEC, a leading plaintiff class action litigator, a public company general counsel, and an independent board member
- SCU Engineering Ethics Prize
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- An annual award to a senior design team for exceptional ethical analysis
- Fasting to Create Space
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- A perspective on Lent
Beth Tellman
- Facing Conflicts of Interest in Troubled Times
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- A seminar co-sponsored by the Ethics Center and Morrison Foerster
- Common Grounds, Common Waters: Toward a Water Ethic
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- Proceedings from a conference held in March 2008 at Santa Clara University
Multiple
- Importance of Relationships in the Case of Gabriela Rivera
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- A physician and president of Cross Cultural Health Care Concepts reflects on the case of a Latino family facing end-of-life decisions.
John Silva
- The Case of Greene Gardens
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- The case describes the 2006 E. coli outbreak in the California spinach industry.
Gregory A. Baker and Kirk O. Hanson
- Honzel Fellowship in Health Care Ethics
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- New gift supports undergraduate student in health care and bioethics
- From Chronic to Critical: A Latino Family Confronts End-of-Life Decisions
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- A case study of an elderly Puerto Rican immigrant to the United States suffering from the effects of diabetes.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Cultural Humility and Compassionate Presence at the End of Life
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- The attitude and cultural competence required for a two-way therapeutic relationship, where both patient and provider contribute.
Sylvia Austerlic
- Case of Gabriela Rivera
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- A physician explores the themes of communication, compliance, and capacity in culturally competent care.
Marc Tunzi
- Autonomy, Justice, and Gabriela Rivera's Need for Care
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- Culturally based assumptions may blind well-meaning caregivers to issues of justice in health care.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- The Duties of Friendship
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- A student must decide whether to call the EMTs when her friend passes out after drinking
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Environmental Ethics Fellowships
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- Fellowship opportunities for Santa Clara University undergradates
- Spotlight on the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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- An interview with Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson
- Making an Ethical Decision
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- A step-by-step guide to ethical decision making
- Competing Identities
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- A poster on a student's dorm room door causes controversy.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- Bioethics in a Global Perspective: Challenges for Catholic Social Teaching
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- Lisa Sowle Cahill speaks on Bioethics in a Global Perspective: Challenges for Catholic Social Teachin, during Ethics at Noon.
- Spiritual Ministry to the Business Community
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- Background and proposals on providing spiritual support in the workplace.
Max Oliva, S.J.
- Ethics at Noon: Bioethics in a Global Perspective: Challenges for Catholic Social Teaching
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- Lisa Sowle Cahill will explore Catholic notions of feminism, politics, peacemaking and ethics in an evening presentation Jan. 15 for the President's Speaker Series.
- No Trespassing? Ownership of Land, the Legal Concept of Adverse Possession, and the U.S. Immigration
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- SCU Professor of Political Science Timothy Lukes and attorney Minh Hoang apply the idea of adverse possession to the current national debate on immigration reform.
- Islam, the State, and Human Rights: Refining the Terms of Inquiry
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- Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im of Emory University will lecture on "Islam, the State, and Human Rights: Refining the Terms of Inquiry."
- Finals Week: What to do about stimulants?
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- A case exploring whether taking drugs like Adderall to improve cognitive performance is simply a form of enhancement or a form of cheating.
Rebecca Fox-Bivona
- When Do I Friend?
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- Do the same rules apply to Facebook friends and "real-world" friends?
Noelle Lopez
- Open and Notorious: Adverse Possession and Immigration Reform
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- An application of the legal concept of adverse possession to the immigration debate
Timothy J. Lukes and Minh T. Hoang
- Hurricane Katrina and Engineering Ethics: Reflections on the Soul of the Profession by a National Le
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- Professor Raymond Seed, University of California, Berkeley, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Leader, Independent Levee Investigation Team
- "Drill, Baby, Drill" and Oil Off the Coast: Ethical Imperative or Moral Hazard?
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- Two students will represent pro/con responses, followed by a discussion with the audience. Moderated by Nick Obradovich, Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. This event is part of Campus Sustainability Week.
- Should All SCU Students Be Vegetarian?
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- Two students will represent pro/con responses, followed by a discussion with the audience. Moderated by Beth Tellman, Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.This event is part of Campus Sustainability Week.
- Climate Change, Prosperity, and Big Ideas: The Moral Imperative of Creating a New Politics of Sustai
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- Michael Shellenberger, co-author of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility; Respondent: Peter Kareiva, SCU Environmental Studies Institute and Nature Conservancy.
- Information Technology, Policy, and the Next American President: Key Legal, Social, and Ethical Chal
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- Featuring Larry Magid, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News. Respondent: Geoffrey Bowker, Executive Director, SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society
- Ethics and the Assessor
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- PowerPoint presentation for the California Assessors Association 106th Annual Conference on doing the publics business with transparency and integrity
Kirk O. Hanson
- Juicy Campus: A Face-to-Face Forum
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- Report on a student-led discussion on the ethical issues in anonymous gossip on the Web
Noelle Lopez
- Global Anti-Corruption Regulatory Climate--Protecting You and Your Company
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- A joint program with Morrison Foerster explores how to protect yourself and your company
- Palliative Care: An Ethical Obligation
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- SCU senior honors thesis argues that the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence require that hospitals, in addition to clinicians, offer palliative care
Stephanie C. Paulus
- Can Citizenship Be Earned?
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- Legal remedies for undocumented immigrants by David DeCosse, Director of campus ethics programs, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
David DeCosse
- Fairness, Financial Markets, and the Fallout From the Subprime Crisis
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- Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times will address the questions and more during her talk at Santa Clara University.
- Perceptions of Fairness and Insider Trading: Cross-Cultural Evidence From Ten Countries
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- A presentation by Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, SCU Department of Finance.
- Financial Bailout Bill
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- Emerging Issues - Financial Bailout Bill [10/06/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Max Oliva, S.J., Visiting Scholar
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- Visiting Scholar
- Do We Have an Obligation to Vote?
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- An analysis of whether it is possible to make a rational case for the individual's responsibility to vote.
Scott LaBarge, introduced by Judy Nadler
- Leading the Technological Good Life
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- A Web site for students on the intersection of technology and ethics
- Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
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- Transparency, land use and planning, and civic engagement top the list of information needs for citizens to participate effectively in decision making.
Judy Nadler
- Meeting the Public's Information Needs
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- Center Senior Fellow in Government Ethics joins other community leaders in a discussion of the information needs of communities in a democracy.
- Undergraduate Fellowship in Environmenal Ethics
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- Highlighting the work of undergraduate fellows focused on sustainability
- Environmental Ethics and the Culture of Sustainability at Santa Clara University
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- An anthropological study of how Santa Clara University students understand, define, and express environmental values as individuals and members of the campus community
Meghan Mooney
- Global Anti-Corruption Regulatory Climate
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- A panel co-sponsored by the Center and Morrison Foerster addresses how companies can protect themselves.
- Hackworth Research Grant Winners Spring 2008
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- Hackworth Research Grant Winners, Spring 2008
- Ethics Camp 2008
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- Summer workshops for educators show how to integrate ethics into the curriculum
- Immigration: Where Do We Go From Here?
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- Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano participates in a day of events at SCU focused on immigration and ethics.
- Business Ethics in Action: Jesuit Business School Strategies for Engaging Business Executives
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- An exploration of the distinctive elements of Jesuit business education
Kirk O. Hanson
- A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
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- A case about Undocumented Parents and a Difficult Birth
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences - Reflections by Rebecca J. Hester
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- Response to a case study A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
Rebecca J. Hester
- Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences - Reflections by Nayamin Martinez
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- Response to a case study A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
Nayamin Martinez
- Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences - Reflections by Karen Peterson-Iyer
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- Response to a case study A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences - Reflections by Marc Tunzi
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- Response to a case study A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
Marc Tunzi
- Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences - Reflections by Marc Tunzi
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- Response to a case study A Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural Differences
Marc Tunzi
- Culturally Competent Care for Latino Patients: Introduction
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- An introduction to Culturally Competent Care for Latino Patients
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Federal Monitors
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- Panelists discuss their role in white collar prosecutions and as federal monitors
B. Prachar, L. Caldwell, B. Schwartz, W. Swenson,
- No-Bid Contracts for Iraqi Oil
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- Emerging Issues - No-Bid Contracts for Iraqi Oil [7/7/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Church Autonomy in Medical Ethical Decision Making
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- An SCU student reflects on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state
Nicole Van Groningen
- International Anti-Corruption Statutes and the FCPA
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- Panel discussion on the costs and challenges of corruption for companies doing business internationally
M. Horowitz, N. Zucker Boswell, M. Doyle, R. Matts
- Corporate Gatekeepers
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- Panel focused on inside and outside counsel, audit committees, and other individuals and groups responsible for the ethical conduct of business organizations
K. Hanson, M. Collins, D. Rains, K. Schick
- Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Federal Monitors
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- Cutting-Edge Issues in Compliance and Business Conduct conference sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, BECA & ECOA
- Dealing Ethically With the Press: A Guide for Public Officials
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- Four rules of thumb for government officials in working with the media.
from a workshop with Jerry Ceppos
- Faith, Sex, and Ethics at Santa Clara University : A Report on the Role of Religion in Student Sexua
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- A series of interviews with more than 30 Santa Clara University students reveals how faith does or does not inform their sexual ethics.
Jessica Coblentz
- FAITH, SEX, & ETHICS AT SANTA CLARA UNIVERISTY
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- Summaries and reports from a year-long project studying how SCU student attitudes towards sexuality are (or are not) informed by their religious traditions.
Jessica Coblentz
- Pharmacogenomics, Ethics, and Public Policy
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- How personalized medicine can develop in a way that promotes the good of both individuals and the broader society
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Data Abuses at Deutsche Telekom
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- Emerging Issues - Data Abuses at Deutsche Telekom [6/2/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Setting a Moral Vision for Academe
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- PowerPoint presentation on bridging the "isought" divide in international education
Lester Goodchild
- Business Ethics: Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?
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- Podcast of an interview with Center Executive-in-Residence Jim Balassone.
- Ethics and the Middle Manager: Creating "Tone in The Middle"
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- Specific behaviors middle managers must demonstrate in order for lower level employees to understand that the organization is serious about ethics
Kirk O. Hanson
- Controversial commencement Speakers
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- Emerging Issues - Controversial commencement Speakers [5/19/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Why News Media Must Embrace Online Rules
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- Online news outlets face ethical challenges when they invite public commentary
Edward Wasserman
- On Ethics and Immigration
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- Arizona Governor looks at ethical issues in developing policy on illegal immigration.
Janet Napolitano
- Why News Media Must Embrace Online Rules
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- Online news outlets face ethical challenges when they invite public commentary.
Edward Wasserman
- Amnesty and Immigration
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- Emerging Issues - Amnesty and Immigration [4/28/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- World that Wikipedia Made
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- A panel discussion on technology, ethics, and the law in the Wikipedia editing model
- Relationship Between Physicians and Patients
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- Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics Edmund Pellegrino discusses the conflicts that can arise between patient autonomy and the personal beliefs of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists
Miriam Schulman
- Sexual Ethics Vary Among Catholic Students
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- SCU senior reports on the results of her research on religion and sexual conducted as a Hackworth Fellow
Jessica Coblentz
- Finding the Ethics of a Hook-up Culture
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- SCU senior advocates more honest communication about sexual ethics
Jessica Coblentz
- Politicization of Ethnic Identities and the Common Good in Kenya
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- A talk delivered for the panel "Kenya, the Common Good, and the Politicization of Ethnic Identities"
Aquiline Tarimo, S.J.
- Cancer: A Failure to Communicate - Reflections by Abdelmalek Yamani
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- Response to a case study where cultural misunderstandings interfere with medical care for a cancer patient.
Abdelmalek Yamani
- Cutting-Edge Issues in Compliance and Business Conduct
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- A day-long forum with panel sessions on business ethics topics May 28, 2008
- Private lives of Public Officials
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- Emerging Issues - Private lives of Public Officials [3/31/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Business ethics in China
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- Emerging Issues - Business ethics in China [11/14/2007]
Emerging Issues Group
- Ethical Issues in Marketing of pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices
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- Emerging Issues - Ethical Issues in Marketing of pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices [3/17/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Giving to Charity
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- Emerging Issues - Giving to Charity [11/27/2007]
Emerging Issues Group
- Lobbyists and Politicians : The Ethical Issue
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- Emerging Issues - Lobbyists and Politicians : The Ethical Issue [3/3/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Media Objectivity
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- Emerging Issues - Media Objectivity [11/1/2007]
Emerging Issues Group
- Race and Gender in the Race for the Preseidency
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- Emerging Issues - Race and Gender in the Race for the Preseidency [2/4/2008]
Emerging Issues Group
- Religion in the Race for the Presidency
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- Emerging Issues - Religion in the Race for the Presidency [12/20/2007]
Emerging Issues Group
- Catholic Conscience, Bioethics, and the Public Square
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- Monday, April 7, Regan Lecture: "The Catholic Conscience, Bioethics, and the Public Square," A talk by Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, Chair, President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics, and John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, 6 p.m., De Saisset Museum
This lecture is made possible in part by a gift from New York Life Insurance Co. in honor of William Regan III. It is part of Science and Health Horizons, a series of events designed to enrich student, faculty, and community understanding of modern health care topics.
- On Ethics and Immigration
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- Thursday, April 24, Lecture: "On Ethics and Immigration," Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, 7 p.m., Recital Hall
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano ('79) is one of our nations most innovative political leaders and was chosen by Time Magazine as one of Americas Top Five Governors. Prior to her election as governor, Napolitano served as U.S. Attorney for Arizona and as Arizonas first female Attorney General. She is a national leader in addressing the issue of illegal immigration and was the first governor to call for the National Guard at the border at federal expense.
Immigration: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Women & Islam: Head Scarves and Other Expression of Faith
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- Wednesday, May 14, Panel Discussion: "Women & Islam: Head Scarves and Other Expression of Faith," Faculty Panelist: Professor Farid Senzai, SCU Department of Political Science; Student Panelists: Faten Hijazi, SCU School of Engineering; Roujin Mozaffarimehr, SCU '08 and Hackworth Fellow, Ethics Center; Jessica Coblentz, SCU '08 and Hackworth Fellow, Ethics Center. Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Multicultural Learning, and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. 3:30-5, Williman Room, Benson Center
- World That Wikipedia Made: The Ethics and Values of Public Knowledge
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- Thursday, May 15, Panel Discussion: "The World That Wikipedia Made: The Ethics and Values of Public Knowledge," Mike Godwin, General Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation; and possible other panelists. Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society; the High Tech Law Institute; and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Reception: 6 to 6:30 p.m.; Panel Discussion: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., De Saisset Museum
- Pandemic Influenza Ethics Tool
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- Ethical issues to consider in preparing for a pandemic, prepared for the Santa Clara County Public Health Department
Margaret R. McLean
- National Apologies
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- The February 2008 apology from the Australian parliament to Aboriginal people forms the basis for lessons on stepping forward to right historical wrongs.
Frank Brennan, SJ
- Cancer: A Failure to Communicate - Reflections by Karen Peterson-Iyer
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- Response to a case study where cultural misunderstandings interfere with medical care for a cancer patient.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Cancer: A Failure to Communicate
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- A case study of how cultural misunderstandings interfere with medical care for a cancer patient.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Cancer: A Failure to Communicate - Reflection by Doha Raik Hamza
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- Response to a case study where cultural misunderstandings interfere with medical care for a cancer patient.
Doha Raik Hamza
- Cancer: A Failure to Communicate - Reflections by Dr. Sheik Hassan and Dr. Hossam E. Fadel
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- Response to a case study where cultural misunderstandings interfere with medical care for a cancer patient.
Dr. Sheik Hassan and Dr. Hossam E. Fadel
- Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom
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- An exploration of academic freedom in the religious university and religious freedom in the public university.
Robert M. O'Neil
- Premarital Sex, Faith & the SCU Student
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- Report on a panel discussion among Santa Clara University students on ethics, spirituality, and sex outside of marriage
Jessica Coblentz
- Business Ethics in the Chinese Context
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- Director of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing Stephan Rothlin talks about progress and challenges.
Miriam Schulman
- Roles and Responsibilities of the General Counsel in the Organization
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- Panel discussion among general counsels of large and small cap companies
Tom McCoy, Craig Nordlund, Martin Collins, Fred Go
- Confronting a Fetal Abnormality
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- A case study raising issues of culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Introduction to Culturally Competent Care
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- Background on how cultural differences affect the provision of care in a clinical setting
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Culturally Competent Care for Muslim Patients: Introduction to Cases and Reflections
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- Background on the specific ethical issues involved in providing culturally competent care to Muslim patients.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Confronting a Fetal Abnormality: Reflections by Doha Raik Hamza
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- Response to a case raising issues in culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman.
Doha Raik Hamza
- Confronting a Fetal Abnormality: Reflections by Sheik N. Hassan and Hossam E. Fadel
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- Response to a case raising issues in culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman.
Sheik N. Hassan and Hossam E. Fadel
- Confronting a Fetal Abnormality: Reflections by Karen Peterson-Iyer
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- Response to a case raising issues in culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- Confronting a Fetal Abnormality: Reflections by Abdelmalek Yamani
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- Response to a case raising issues in culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman.
Abdelmalek Yamani
- Business Ethics Scenarios
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- Brief cases that raise questions on gifts, conflicts of interest, disparagement, and more.
Jim Balassone
- Putting Away the Gifts
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- The Center's senior fellow in government ethics recommends a no-gifts policy for public officials.
Judy Nadler
- Ethics, Doping, and the Future of Cycling: A Talk by Greg LeMond
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- Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond speaks on doping problems in the sport, Feb. 17, 2008
- Hackworth Research Grant Winners Fall 2007
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- Hackworth Research Grant Winners Fall 2007
- Hackworth Research Grant Winners Fall 2007
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- Hackworth Research Grant Winners, Fall 2007
- Santa Clara University - A Brief History of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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- Photos and highlights of Center programs and events since 1986
- Homosexuality and Religion
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- SCU students discuss how faith informs their views on homosexuality.
Jessica Coblentz
- Center Director Named One of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics
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- Kirk O. Hanson is honored in the 2007 list by Ethisphere Magazine.
- How You Can Help
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- Gifts from $50 to $25,000 support Center programs in important ways.
- Role, Responsibilities, and Challenges of Corporate Gatekeepers
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- A CFO and audit committee chair, a general counsel, an outside counsel, an audit partner from a public accounting firm, and an SEC associate regional director discuss their roles as corporate gatekeepers.
Miriam Schulman
- To Cover or Not to Cover: Headscarves and Human Rights
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- Do women have the right to express their own religious views by choosing either to wear or not to wear a headscarf?
Roujin Mozaffarimehr
- Center Director Honored by Aspen Institute
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- Kirk O. Hanson receives the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Business Education.
- Consumer Rights and Corporate Responsibility
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- Issues in protecting consumer rights in China were the focus of this international business ethics conference.
- Trust Online
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- A conference on ethical, social, regulatory, and legal aspects of creating trust on the Internet
- Sunshine reform
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- Testimony to the San Jose City Council on improving government transparency.
Judy Nadler
- Expanding Health Care Coverage: A Balm for California?
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- Applying Catholic social teaching to the problem of the uninsured.
Margaret R. McLean
- Sustainability: Reflections on a Smart Imperative
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- A review of ethical challenges in building a solar house.
James Bickford
- Religion, Ethics and Politics in World Affairs
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- Religion, Ethics and Politics in World Affairs
- Ethical Challenges Facing Newspapers
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- U.S. and Vietnamese editors discuss press freedom, government secrecy, and other issues.
Miriam Schulman
- Green Building
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- A case study on the construction of Santa Clara University's sustainable building, Kennedy Commons.
Meredith Swineheart
- Toward an Ethical Culture
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- Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson identifies characteristics of an ethical organization.
Anne Federwisch
- Coming Pandemic: Ethical Preparedness
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- Procedural and distributive justice considerations in triage during a pandemic.
Margaret R. McLean
- Santa Clara University Student-Athlete Statement Of Values
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- The vision, mission, and fundamental values for students participating in Bronco athletics.
Sara Overmier, Steve O'Brien, David DeCosse
- Practical Sports Ethics
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- Podcast of a talk by the executive director of Positive Coaching Alliance
Jim Thompson
- Catchy Title or Needless Deception?
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- A journalist must decide when a promotion for a story is misleading.
Jessica Silliman
- Filtering and Pressure from Media Conglomerates
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- Pressure from above creates a pseudo-controversy.
Jessica Silliman
- Wrestling, Weight Loss and Exposing A Flawed System
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- Should a reporter include details in a story about how athletes exploit loopholes in a testing program?
Jessica Silliman
- Misplaced Funds Cloud Reputation: Is it worth it?
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- Reporting ruins the reputation of a respected local coach.
Jessica Silliman
- News and a Profit-Driven Turn to Advertising
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- Should news content be aligned with ad revenue?
Jessica Silliman
- Exploitive Tactics or Good Journalism?
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- How close up and personal should a reporter get to the scene of a tragedy?
Jessica Silliman
- Radio News: When to use a name?
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- A student makes a false allegation to police. Should the campus radio station reveal the students name?
Jessica Silliman
- Getting Personal: Private Lives and Public Figures
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- Is the mayors impending divorce a fit subject for a news story during a campaign?
Jessica Silliman
- Exposing The Pay of Public Safety Officials
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- Does the public have the right to know the salaries of police and firefighters?
Jessica Silliman
- Questionable Content: Editors and The Pressure of Falling Ad Revenue
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- A magazine editors job comes to include creating free advertisements for luxury products.
Jessica Silliman
- Breaking a StoryAnd a Relationship
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- Full reporting on a case of steroid abuse would have disastrous consequences for the reporters source.
Jessica Silliman
- Fair Play or Damaging The Reputation of Youth?
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- The father of a Little League player misstates his age so that he can play in the World Series. What is the reporters responsibility considering the boys youth?
Jessica Silliman
- To Use Photos or Not: Damaging Photos in An Online Age
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- Undergraduates put racist photos of themselves on Facebook. Should the student newspaper reprint them?
Jessica Silliman
- Creativity and The Race for Syndication
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- Economics of the TV industry mitigate against creative programming.
Jessica Silliman
- Leaked Movie Trailer and A Confidentiality Agreement
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- Confidentiality agreements prevent film industry employees from releasing information about upcoming releases.
Jessica Silliman
- Deceitful Movie Trailers or Good Advertising?
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- A producer must create an appealing trailer for a terrible movie.
Jessica Silliman
- To Exploit or Commemorate: Film and The Challenge of 9/11
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- How soon is too soon in making movies about disasters?
Jessica Silliman
- Using Borrowed Material
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- Using photographs published online creates ethical questions about copyright.
Jessica Silliman
- Reporting Inflated Numbers
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- A companys internal communications representative is asked to report inflated profit numbers.
Jessica Silliman
- Controversial Radio Advertising
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- A sales intern for a radio station is pressured to mislead advertisers.
Jessica Silliman
- Bad Business Ethics or Acceptable Promotional Perks?
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- A radio station inflates the number of on-air giveaways they ask companies to provide and then offers the excess as perks to station employees.
Jessica Silliman
- A Right or Wrong Way to Sell?
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- A contract sales rep is asked to circumvent the industrys chain-of-custody arrangements.
Jessica Silliman
- Effects of Ethics Policies: A Positive Story
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- Doing the right thing brings praise.
Jessica Silliman
- Homeless at the Door: A Nonprofit Challenge
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- Should a homeless help center have strict hours?
Jessica Silliman
- Aggressive Sales Quotas or Unfair Business Practice?
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- An online directory chooses customer service over inflated advertising packages.
Jessica Silliman
- Public Relations: Is The Customer Always Right?
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- A client rigs a talent competition/publicity event.
Jessica Silliman
- Balancing Nonprofit Interests
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- Should an HIV/AIDS program focus on prevention or treatment?
Jessica Silliman
- Deceitful Spammer or Marketing Genius?
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- Is impersonation a viable marketing approach?
Jessica Silliman
- Client Obligations and Handling Your Boss
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- A boss forwards a draft e-mail to a client.
Jessica Silliman
- Trust During The Dot-Com Boom
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- A company woos a new employee under false pretenses.
Jessica Silliman
- Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
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- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics brings together executives and scholars in a forum designed to increase the members knowledge about effectively managing ethics in business organizations.
- Setting the Stage for Problems
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- Should a public official solicit charitable contributions from businesses that are under his supervision?
Roey Rahmil
- Election Irregularities
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- A newly elected mayor decides whether to contest a citation for election code violations.
Roey Rahmil
- On the Record
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- What is a former supervisor's duty to reveal about past poor judgments by a candidate for public office.
Roey Rahmil
- Ethics, Autonomy and the Treatment of Tuberculosis in Impoverished Patients in India
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- Undergraduate research addressing problems in applying the ethical principle of autonomy to contagious disease.
Kelsey Whittier
- Doing the Public's Business with Transparency and Integrity
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- Kirk Hanson's presentation to annual meeting of California Association of County Treasurers & Tax Collectors on June 13, 2007, in Santa Barbara, CA
Kirk O. Hanson
- Center Celebrates 20th Anniversary
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- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics marks 20 years of sharing expert knowledge and innovative research with Silicon Valley and the world.
- Brief History of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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- Remarks by Ethics Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson on the occasion of the Center's 20th anniversary
- Principles for Building an Ethical Organization
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- R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of Tata Sons, offers five principles for executives.
Miriam Schulman
- Reflections on Research Ethics
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- The editor of Science magazine and president emeritus of Stanford University discusses issues confronting universities and journals.
Donald Kennedy
- Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas of Leaders
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- A presentation to the XIII World Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility in Guadalajara, Mexico, sponsored by the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Center Names 2007-08 Student Fellows
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- Hackworth Fellows to concentrate on technology ethics, sexual ethics, and women and democracy.
- Center Receives Gift for Immigration Ethics Project
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- Agnieszka Winkler and Art Lund donate $25,000 to support program.
- Verite Executive Director Visits Center
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- Dan Viederman discusses the work of his organization.
- Virtues and Vices of Open Source
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- An analysis of the ethical issues surrounding free software.
Eben Moglen
- Immigration Policy and Principles of Humanity
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- Bill Ong Hing analyzes why immigrants come to the United States and ways to integrate immigrants.
Suruchi Bhutani
- Ethics of Migration and Immigration
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- A briefing paper on key questions for policy makers
Lynette M. Parker
- Ethics and City Hall
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- San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed outlines reforms.
Suruchi Bhutani
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking
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- Fairness, rights, and virtues are explored in relation to sites such as Facebook and MySpace
- Climate Change and Justice Between Generations
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- William Sundstrom and Keith Warner discuss the ethics and economics of global warming
Suruchi Bhutani
- Ethics Center Hires New Assistant Director for Administration
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- Former Seattle University athletic director joins staff
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Open Source
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- Issues confronting the free software movement include how best to promote innovation and the common good.
- Orange County Character-Based Literacy Program Wins Award
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- CBL receives California County Boards of Education 2007 Exemplary Program Award
- Business Ethics in China: Challenges and Opportunities
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- A panel featuring C.S. Park, Seagate Board of Directors; Wing Li, Managing Director, Atelier Capital Corp.; Alan Lee, Co-founder of Forrester Group, Chongbang Holdings; Baocheng Liu, Dean, Sino-French School of International Management, Beijing, China; James OToole, Research Professor, USC Marshall School of Business
Margaret Steen
- Four Perspectives on Indian Business Practices
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- A panel featuring Arvind Bhambri, Associate Professor, USC Marshall School of Business; Pravir Malik, Managing Director, Advisory Service, Business for Social Responsibility; Vic Kulkarni, President and CEO, Sequence Design Inc; P. Christie, S.J., Director, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai, India.
Margaret Steen
- Business Ethics in a Global World: An Introduction to the Issues
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- CEO of Business for Social Responsibility Aron Cramer offers perspectives on how Chinese and Indian companies apply business ethics.
Margaret Steen
- Business Ethics in a Global World: India's Changing Ethics
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- Marketing professor Jagdish Sheth looks at the new "Asian Century."
Margaret Steen
- San Jose Sunshine Reform Task Force Update
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- The task force considers recommendations for improving transparency and participation.
- Partnership Members Named Best Corporate Citizens
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- Advanced Micro Devices, Agilent, Applied Materials, and Cisco are among the top 20 corporate citizens of 2007, according to CRO magazine.
- Character in the Catholic Schools
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- The Center launches a new national character education curriculum for Catholic schools.
- Medical Ethics Meets Organizational Ethics
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- Lessons from both clinical and business ethics apply in a hospital context.
- Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of the Executive
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- James O'Toole argues that great leaders encourage candor.
Jennifer Pittman
- Dilemma of Iraq
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- Former White House Chief of Staff and member of the Iraq Study Group Leon Panetta discusses how to stabilize Iraq and stop polarization at home.
Suruchi Bhutani
- Ethics of Immigration
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- Columnist Victor Davis Hanson discusses who benefits from illegal immigration, why the issue is so polarizing, and possible solutions.
Suruchi Bhutani
- Transformation of Work
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- Summary of a presentation by Edward Lawler highlighting findings from his book "The New American Workplace."
Anne Federwisch
- Ethical Issues in the Financial Services Industry
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- Summary of a presentation by Ronald F. Duska and James A. Mitchell on the reasons for ethical lapses in the industry and some ways to protect against them.
Anne Federwisch
- Economic Empowerment of Women
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- A look at the factors affecting women's economic situation worldwide, the benefits of empowerment, and strategies for achieving it.
Almaz Negash
- Ethics of Fiction Writing
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- The author of such novels as "Atticus" and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" talks about ethical issues confronting writers.
Ron Hansen
- Whistle Blowing in the Public Sector
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- An introduction to the ethical issues surrounding government whistle blowers.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Ethical Challenges Today for Female Athletes
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- Soccer great Brandi Chastain discusses gender discrimination, work-life balance, and other issues facing women and girls in sports.
Suruchi Bhutani
- Ethics Across the Curriculum
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- Consultations are available for SCU faculty who want to integrate ethics into their courses.
- 2006-07 Business Ethics Outlook Press Briefing
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- Transcript of a press briefing about five critical ethical issues facing American businesses.
Jerry, Robert Finocchio, Kirk O. Hanson
- Assessing for Ethics
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- Dan Pracher, business development manager for Development Dimensions International, explores how to hire employees who mesh with the ethical culture of the organization.
Anne Federwisch
- Fiddling With the Free Market
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- Are there ethical reasons to try to guide the invisible hand?
William Sundstrom
- Ethics of Leaking
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- How to tell whether a leak is worth publishing--or taking seriously
Kirk O. Hanson and Jerry Ceppos
- Business Ethics Outlook 2006-07
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- Five crucial ethical issues on the agenda for American businesses.
- With Health Care and Justice for All
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- Catholic social teaching and the ethics of access to health care.
Margaret R. McLean
- Hackworth Grants for Student Research in Applied Ethics
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- Information for Santa Clara University students on applying for ethics research grants.
- Ethics of Immigration and Migration Project Receives Grant
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- The Bustos/Lopez Family Fund donates seed money for new Global Leadership and Ethics project.
- Fiction and the Ethics of Writing
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- Author Ron Hansen discusses the writer's obligation to the truth.
Miriam Schulman
- What HP Should Have Done
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- Ethical dilemmas facing the board of Hewlett-Packard.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Hackworth Research Grants for Faculty
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- Information for Santa Clara University faculty on applying for ethics research grants.
- Wonders of the World Wide Web
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- The Ethics Center Web site brings searchers together with the information they need.
Miriam Schulman
- Interdisciplinary Course on Bio-Ethics Wins Award
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- A course training students in girorous sicence and in ethical inquiry wins curriculum development award.
Miriam Schulman
- Time for a Unifying National Debate on the 'War on Terror'
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- A look at the ethical implications of rhetoric about combatting terrorism.
David DeCosse
- Five Enduring Ethical Rules
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- H-P pretexting and government payment to journalists suggest the need for a reminder of ethical principles.
Jerry Ceppos
- Future of Government Ethics: There's Hope
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- Senior Fellow in Government Ethics Judy Nadler extends the work of the Center into the classroom.
Miriam Schulman
- Codes of Ethics and Values
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- Access to a wide variety of resources on how cities can develop ethical codes
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Global Business Ethics Conference 2007: Call for Papers
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- Information and submission guidelines for a conference on China, India, and new ways to create transnational ethical cultures
- Personal Lives of Public Officials
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- Ethical issues at the boundary between a politician's personal and public behavior
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Expanding Ethical Research
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- Hackworth Grants Support Innovative Projects on Ethics
Miriam Schulman
- 'G' Is for Genes and Genomes
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- Genetic testing poses ethical problems for individuals who may learn they have an illness for which there is no treatment.
Margaret R. McLean
- 'H' Is for Heredity and Huntington's
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- An introduction to the ethics of genetic counseling and genetic testing.
Margaret R. McLean
- 'I' Is for Information
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- an introduction to confidentiality and informed consent.
By Margaret R. McLean
- 'J' Is for Justice
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- What principles should guide the distribution of scarce medical resources such as organs for transplant?
Margaret R. McLean
- ABC
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- An introduction to basic issues in health care ethics.
Margaret R. Mclean
- 'C' Is for Compassionate and Caring Community
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- An introduction to the virtue of compassion in a health care context.
Margaret R. McLean
- 'D' Is for Discussions, Decisions, and Directives
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- End-of-life decisions are aided by advance discussions and directives.
Margaret R. McLean
- 'E' Is for Everyday Ethics
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- While the big issues like cloning or end-of-life treatment may catch the headlines, we deal with important ethical issues every day.
Margaret R. McLean
- 'F' Is for the Future
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- A discussion of consequences as an approach to ethics in a health care context
Margaret R. McLean
- Civility
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- An introduction to the ethical issues for public officials.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Civil Disagreement
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- A case exploring the limits of public debate
Judy Nadler
- Name Calling on the Council
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- When the mayor and a councilmember disagree vociferously, is it unacceptable conduct or just the normal rough and tumble of
politics?
Judy Nadler
- Global Ethics Director Addresses Women World Leaders
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- Almaz Negash speaks on Educating Women and Children
- Educating Women and Children: A Moral Imperative
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- PowerPoint Presentation on the global problem and approaches to a solution.
Almaz Negash
- Personalized Medicine: The Ethics of Access
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- Pharmacogenomics sparks new therapeutic possibilities and
new threats to the U.S. health care system.
Karen Peterson-Iyer
- 2006-07 Hackworth Fellows Named
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- Undergraduates chosen to lead student programs on ethics.
- Members of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Honored
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- Business Ethics Magazine names six partner companies to the annual list of 100 best corporate citizens.
- Gifts and Bribes
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- An introduction to the ethical issues for public officials.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- No Such Thing as a Free Ticket
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- A case involving a gift to a government official
Judy Nadler
- Political Perk or Part of the Job?
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- A mayor must decide whether to accept VIP treatment at the ballpark.
Judy Nadler
- WorldCom Case Study Update 2006
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- A description of the events between the declaration of bankruptcy by WoldCom and its acquisition by Verizon.
Edward J. Romar and Martin Calkins
- Ethics and Leadership Camp for Public Officials 2006
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- Twenty-two city councilmembers, ethics commissioners, and other government officials gathered for the first summer workshop on instilling a culture of ethics in local government.
Judy Nadler
- Hackworth Grant Winners, Spring 2006
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- SCU faculty and students receive support for research on criminal justice, environmental ethics, and other topics.
- Councilmember and the Manager
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- A city councilmember must decide if he can impartially review the performance of the city manager.
Judy Nadler
- Relationships Between Elected Officials and Staff
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- An introduction to the ethical issues that arise between city or county staff and councilmembers or supervisors.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Does Business Ethics Teaching Affect Practice?
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- Transcript of a panel discussion on the question, "Has business ethics teaching and research had any discernible impact on business practice in the US and around the world?"
Manuel Velasquez, R. Edward Freeman, Mary Gentile,
- Pandemic Ethics
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- Questions for health care institutions about preparing ethically for a disaster.
Margaret R. McLean
- Changing a Culture of Corruption
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- Former ombudsman for Hong Kong Andrew So describes anti-corruption efforts.
Miriam Schulman
- Favoritism, Cronyism, and Nepotism
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- An introduction to the ethical issues presented by favoritism in government.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Who Cares About Biodiversity?
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- An interview with Geoffrey Bowker, director of the SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society.
Miriam Schulman
- Introduction to Government Ethics
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- Basic material on the most common ethical issues in public service
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Current Issues; Current Resolutions
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- Reflections on pedagogy, gender, and portrayals of civic life in the educaitonal computer game "Decisions, Decisions: Current Issues" from the 2006 Student Ethics Research Conference.
Rachel Araneta and Sierra Lovelace
- Rallying Behind Reiman
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- Reflections on the death penalty from the 2006 Student Ethics Research Conference
Anthony J. Colello
- Looking to the Future: Salmon Conservation Through Applied Ethics and Spirituality
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- A new approach to salmon conservation from the 2006 Student Ethics Research Conference
Christina Loraine Mogren
- Conflicts of Interest in Government
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- An introduction to the ethical dilemmas posed by conflicts of interest in the public sphere.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Campaign Ethics
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- An introduction to campaign ethics including ethical dilemmas, cases, and links
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Ethics and Databases: Traces of Ourselves
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- Transcript of a panel discussion with Mitch Kapor, Lotus founder; John Arquilla, Naval Post Graduate School; and S. Leigh Star, SCU Center for Science, Technology and Society
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions about Databases and Data Mining
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- A look at databases and data mining from the perspectives of utilitarianism, fairness, rights, common good, and virtue ethics
perspectives.
- Video Gaming: Playing With Ethics?
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- An SCU undergraduate looks at the social responsibility of the video game industry.
Caroline Ratajski
- Evolution of Human Rights Norms and Machinery
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- Bertrand G. Ramcharan, former United Nations High Commissioner, offers his perspectives on the evolution of human rights norms and machinery.
Bertrand G. Ramcharan
- 2006 Student Ethics Research Conference
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- Presentation of outstanding papers.
- Re-examining Your China Strategy
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- Center Director Kirk O. Hanson and Law Professor Mary Szto discuss how Western companies can cope with the ethical challenges of doing business in China.
Sharleen Sy
- New Strategies for Corporate Responsibility
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- A candid analysis of the potential and limitations of the corporate responsibility movement by U.C. Berkeley Professor David
Vogel
Sharleen Sy
- Unocal in Burma
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- Background to a suit in federal court alleging that members of a minority Burmese group had been subjected to relocation, forced labor, torture, murder, and rape on the Yadana pipeline project
Manuel Velasquez
- Role of the Audit Committee in Business Ethics
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- Executives discuss how new standards are changing corporate governance
Tom McCoy, Marty Malone, Susan Wang, Nick Moore
- Incorporating Ethics into the Organization's Strategic Plan
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- Robert Finocchio, former CEO of Informix, offers prescriptions for making ethics part of strategy
Miriam Schulman
- Hackworth Grant Winners Fall 2005
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- 18 Rules of International Business Ethics
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- General secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in beijing offers a guide for doing business ethically.
Stephan Rothlin
- Character Education for Churches
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- Build. Plant. Grow. provides intergenerational lessons on character based on readings from the Lectionary and children's literature.
- The Case of the Friendly Consultant
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- A mayor wonders whether a friendly lunch is actually an occasion for lobbying.
Judy Nadler
- Environmentally Sustainable Building
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- Talk at the dedication of SCU's Kennedy Commons
Meredith Swinehart
- Lobbying Ethics
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- An introduction to the ethical considerations in lobbying the
government
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Open Meetings: A Case Study
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- An executive session makes citizens question a city council's decision on rezoning.
Judy Nadler
- Open Meetings, Sunshine Laws, and Transparency in Government
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- An introduction to the topic including definitions, dilemmas, cases, and links.
Judy Nadler and Miriam Schulman
- Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
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- Transcript of a panel discussing privacy, censorship, fairness, and access issues related to search engines.
Peter Norvig, Terry Winograd, Geoffrey Bowker, Kir
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Search Engines
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- Privacy, censorship, trust, and intellectual property rights are among the issues raised about ethics and search engines.
- Sudan and Darfur
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- Bibliography of works by the president of the Sudan Studies Association and associate professor of economics at SCU Michael Kevane.
Michael Kevane
- To Publish or Not to Publish
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- Two views on the question, Should U.S. media show cartoons that have sparked Muslim protest?
Jerry Ceppos, Eric Hanson
- To Boldly Go: Ethical Perspectives on Space Exploration
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- A stewardship approach to the expansion of human presence into the solar system.
Margaret R. McLean
- New Narrative for Biodiversity
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- Geoffrey Bowker discusses why we should care about biodiversity.
- Teaching Ethics
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- SCU Philosophy Professor William Prior discusses moral cultivation.
- The Candidate's Crisis of Conscience
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- A candidate for city council must decide how frank to be in endorsement interviews.
Judy Nadler
- Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Overlapping Concerns
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- An argument that rights and responsibilities are not antithetical pursuits.
Thomas Axworthy
- Human Rights and Human Responsibilities in the Age of Terrorism
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- A talk by the former Australian prime minister
Malcolm Fraser
- Dealing With Bullies
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- Fighting back: Is it right and does it work?
Miriam Schulman
- What Are Environmental Ethics?
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- A short coursewith lesson plansfor beginners.
Keith Warner OFM and David DeCosse
- Environmental Ethics Lesson Plan 1
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- Autobiography of your relationship with the earth
Keith Warner OFM and David DeCosse
- Environmental Ethics Lesson Plan 2
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- : The distinctiveness of environmental ethics, including the who, when, where, how, and what.
Keith Warner OFM and David DeCosse
- Environmental Ethics Lesson Plan 3
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- A decision-making model demonstrating the reasoning and principles used in environmental ethics.
Keith Warner OFM and David DeCosse
- Environmental Ethics Web Links
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- Internet resources keyed to an introductory course in environmental ethics.
- Environmental Ethics bibliography
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- A reading list keyed to an introductory course on environmental ethics
- Mexican Presidential Race Comes to Santa Clara
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- Represetatives of candidates for the 2006 Mexican presidential race meet in a debate co-sponosred by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Medical Decision Making for Publicly Conserved Individuals: Policy Recommendations
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- Analysis of problems confronting public guardians making end-of-life care decisions.
Theresa Drought
- End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 1
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- A physician has questions for a public guardian in charge of the medical care for a conserved patient.
Elizabeth Menkin
- End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 1
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- A physician has questions for a public guardian in charge of the medical care for a conserved patient.
Elizabeth Menkin
- End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 2
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- A public guardian must make decisions for a 78 year-old woman with severe dementia, and multiple illnesses.
Elizabeth Menkin
- End-of-Life Decision Making: Case 2
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- A public guardian must make decisions for a 78 year-old woman with severe dementia, and multiple illnesses.
Elizabeth Menkin
- Reading List on End-of-Life Decision Making
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- A bibliography on legal, ethical, and medical aspects of end-of-life decisions.
- Human Rights and Human Responsibilities in the Age of Terrorism
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- A talk by the former Australian prime minister
Malcolm Fraser
- Global Ethic and Human Responsibility
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- Kung argues that common values and standards underlie all religions. Human responsibilities reinforce human rights.
Hans Kung
- Response to Hans Kung's Remarks on Global Ethic and Human Responsibilites
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- An argument against the creation of a Declaration of Human Responsibilities.
Kathleen Mahoney
- Assisted Suicide: A Right or a Wrong?
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- An examination of the ethical issues in physician-assisted death.
Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez
- The Case of the Depressed Patient
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- A doctor must decide if a patient's decision to stop dialysis is motivated by depression.
Melinda Lee
- New Corporate Governance: Key Themes for Public Companies Today
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- An article on a talk given by Mark A. Bertelsen to the membership of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership on September 12, 2003
Mark A. Bertelsen
- Playing Games with Regulation
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- Is legislation the right approach to sex and violence in video games?
Miriam Schulman
- Tookie Williams
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- An argument against the death penalty
Gerald D. Coleman
- What Would a Real Ethics Refresher Course Look Like?
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- Advice for the Congress and White House about ethical leadership.
Judy Nadler
- Homosexual Candidates, the Seminary, and Priesthood
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- An explanation of the Nov. 2005 instruction from Pope Benedict XVI about candidates to the priesthood who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies.
Gerald D. Coleman, S.S.
- On-Line Resources in Government Ethics
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- Links to articles, codes, and other materials about government ethics programs.
- Playing With Ethics: A Panel on Video Games
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- Transcript of a discussion on video games, violence, gender stereotypes, and addiction.
Leland Yee, Mike Antonucci, Kristin Asleson McDonn
- Ethics Cases for Product Safety Engineers
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- Ethical dilemmas for engineers charged with clarifying and overseeing product safety.
John McBain and James Balassone
- Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Video Gaming
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- From the perspectives of utilitarianism, rights, fairness, common good, and virtue ethics, some questions on video games, violence, gender, and addiction.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Darfur: How Long Can We Ignore the Violence?
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- An analysis of the international response to the crisis in Darfur
David Kilgour
- Ethics of U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq
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- An exploration of the potential consequences of withdrawal for the U.S. military, for Iraqis, and for world stability.
Peter Minowitz
- Government Spending Is a Better Measure of our Generosity
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- The Center's executive director argues that government must be the primary means by which we demonstrate our commitment to social justice. From Explore magazine.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Campaign Ethics and Voter Guidelines
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- Materials on campaign ethics prepared in conjunction with the city of Livermore, Calif.
Judy Nadler
- Confirmation Ethics
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- An argument in favor of a political but fair and transparent confirmation process
Terri Peretti
- Immigration: Should the Rules Change?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, a look at immigration in an age of terrorism.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Unavoidable Ethical Choices Shaping Our Personal and National Character in 2005-06
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- An introduction to the National Ethics Agenda
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Executive Compensation: Are Outsize Pay Packages Contributing to Corporate Malfeasance?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, an examination of the wide gaps between executive and line worker pay and their impact on public trust and corporate bad behavior.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- National Ethics Agenda 2005-06
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- The six most critical ethical issues facing the nation, as outlined by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
- Advise and Consent: What Are the Ethics of Confirmation?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, an exploration of the ethical issues in the process of federal judicial appointments.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Students Left Behind: Is It Ever Okay to Give up on a Child?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, a look at what we owe children who are expelled from school.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Heroism: On Whose Shoulders Should We Stand?
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- From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, an exploration of heroes as an embodiment of a society's ideals.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group
- Ethical Issues in Immigration
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- Rights, responsibilities, and community are central ethical issues considered in this look behind the immigration debate.
David DeCosse
- Why Heroes Are Important
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- The impact of role models on the ideals to which we aspire.
Scott LaBarge
- Ethics Experts for Media
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- A listing of Santa Clara University faculty and staff with expertise in ethics in a wide variety of fields.
- Building Democracies in Africa
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- Former Botswana president discusses country's success and implications for the region.
Ketumile Masire
- Is Tolerance Enough: Catholic Universities and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Issues
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- Comments from an Ethics at Noon presentation.
Michael J. Meyer, Michael Zampelli, S.J.
- Former Botswana President Addresses Building Democracies in Africa
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- Ketumile Masire discusses Botswana's success and possible applications to the challenges facing Africa.
- Sarbanes-Oxley: A View from the Perspective of the Audit Committee
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- A sixteen-slide PowerPoint presentation given at the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Bob Finocchio
- Ethical Challenges in Human Resources
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- A talk given to the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
James O'Toole
- Corporate Ethics, Governance and Social Responsibility
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- A study comparing European business practices to those in the U.S. conducted for the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Nathan E. Hurst
- Corporate Governance
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- A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Meeting
Bill McGrew
- Schiavo Case and the Future of Ethics at the End of Life
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- Notes from a presentation on the ethical issues raised by the Terri Schiavo case
Gerald Coleman, S.S. and Lawrence Nelson
- Value Issues in Transatlantic Relations
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- Former French Foreign Minister Jean Francois-Poncet discusses how different value perspectives affect cooperation between the United States and Europe.
Jean Francois-Poncet
- Campaign Ethics Challenge
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- A candidate faces a last-minute attack from an opponent.
Judy Nadler
- Don't Take Your Organs to Heaven
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- An analysis of the ethical issues in organ donation
Margaret R. McLean
- The Case of the Extra Mile
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- Ethics case addressing the work-life balance for public employees.
Kirk O. Hanson
- The Case of the Mangled Data
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- Ethics case addressing the responsibility of public employees to provide accurate information.
Kirk O. Hanson
- The Outbreak
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- This fictionalized case addresses the ethical issues confronting governments, NGOs, and pharmaceutical companies when faced with an epidemic.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Success Camp: A Character Education Program for Youngsters in Foster Care
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- Language arts and "survival skills" form the core of a three-day workshop for youngsters in the child welfare system.
- Listing of Architects by Alphabetical Order
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- Architects listed by issue
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- How to Use the Architects of Peace Site
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- About This Site: Architects of Peace
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- Presentations from "The Accountable Corporation"
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- PowerPoint presentations on topics from CSR to executive compensation, to ethical leadership from the Center's 2005 Global Business Ethics Conference
- Ida Jackson
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- Ida Jackson biography
- Reverend Jesse Jackson
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- Reverend Jesse Jackson biography
- Bianca Jagger
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- Bianca Jagger biography
- Wei Jingsheng
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- Wei Jingsheng biography
- Pope John Paul II
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- Pope John Paul II biography
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. biography
- Craig Kielburger
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- Craig Kielburger biography
- Coretta Scott King
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- Coretta Scott King biography
- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
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- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger biography
- Dr. C. Everett Koop
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- Dr. C. Everett Koop biography
- Ron Kovic
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- Ron Kovic biography
- Phil Lane Jr.
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- Phil Lane Jr. biography
- Richard Leakey
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- Richard Leakey biography
- Maya Lin
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- Maya Lin biography
- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
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- Mairead Corrigan Maguire biography
- Nelson Mandela
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- Nelson Mandela biography
- Rigoberta Menchuú Tum
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- Rigoberta Menchuú Tum biography
- Linus Pauling
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- Linus Pauling biography
- Shimon Peres
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- Shimon Peres biography
- Helen Prejean
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- Helen Prejean biography
- Dith Pran
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- Dith Pran biography
- General Colin Powell
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- General Colin Powell biography
- Leah Rabin
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- Leah Rabin biography
- José Ramos-Horta
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- José Ramos-Horta biography
- Robert Redford
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- Robert Redford biography
- Mary Robinson
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- Mary Robinson biography
- Marla Ruzicka
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- Marla Ruzicka biography
- Jehan Sadat
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- Jehan Sadat biography
- Oscar Arias Sanchez
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- Oscar Arias Sanchez biography
- Carlos Santana
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- Carlos Santana biography
- Steven Spielberg
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- Steven Spielberg biography
- Mother Teresa
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- Mother Teresa biography
- Margaret Thatcher
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- Margaret Thatcher biography
- Margaret Thatcher
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- Margaret Thatcher biography
- Robert Edward Turner
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- Robert Edward Turner biography
- Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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- Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu biography
- Dr. Mahbub ul-Haq
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- Dr. Mahbub ul-Haq biography
- Lech Walesa
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- Lech Walesa biogrpahy
- Alice Walker
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- Alice Walker biography
- Reverend Benjamin Weir
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- Reverend Benjamin Weir biography
- Elie Wiesel
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- Elie Wiesel biography
- Jody Williams
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- Jody Williams biography
- Jody Williams
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- Jody Williams biography
- Harry Wu
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- Harry Wu biography
- Andrew Young
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- Andrew Young biography
- Muhammad Yunus
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- Muhammad Yunus biography
- Creating a Culture of Ethics in the Public Sector
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- Remarks on government ethics presented at the World Bank
Judy Nadler
- 2005-06 On-Campus Programs Support Research, Peer-Led Reflection
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- Student and Faculty research grants and fellowships for 2005-06.
- Carlos Santana Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Nelson Mandella Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Rigoberta Menchu Tum Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Cesar Chavez Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Muhammad Yunus Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Andrew Young Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Harry Wu Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An Essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Jody Williams Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Elie Wiesel Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Benjamin Weir Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Alice Walker Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Lech Walesa Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Mahbub Ul-Haq Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Desmond Tutu Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- R. E. Turner Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Margaret Thatcher Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Mother Teresa Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Steven Spielberg Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Oscar Arias Sanchez Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Jehan Sadat Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Marla Ruzicka Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Mary Robinson Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Robert Redford Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- José Ramos-Horta Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Leah Rabin Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Colin Powel Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
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- Shimon Peres Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Linus Pauling Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Mairead Corrigan Maguire Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Maya Lin Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Richard Leakey Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Phil Lane, Jr. Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Ron Kovic Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- C. Everett Koop Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Henry Kissinger Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Coretta Scott King Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Craig Kielburger Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Wei Jingsheng Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Bianca Jagger Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Jesse Jackson Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a lifes work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- David Ho Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Paul Hawken Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Thich Nhat Hanh Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Nadja Halilbegovich Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Billy Graham Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Mikhail Gorbachev Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Jane Goodall Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Leonard George Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Arun Gandhi Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Marian Wright Edelman Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Dalai Lama Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Yael Dayan Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- F. W. de Klerk Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Jean-Michel Cousteau Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Theo Colburn Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- Jimmy Carter Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Geoffrey Canada Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Helen Caldicott Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Lee Butler Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- David Brower Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Sarah Brady Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- James Brady Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Benazir Bhutto Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Harry Belafonte Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace online curriculum.
- Joan Baez Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Maya Angelou Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Queen Noor al-Hussein Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Mahnaz Afkhami Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Bella Abzug Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Hafsat Abiola Reflects on Working Towards Peace
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- An essay on a life's work of peacemaking from the Architects of Peace on-line curriculum.
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Hafsat Abiola
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John Farnworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Harry Belafonte
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on James Brady.
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on David Brower
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Lee Butler
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on F.W. de Klerk
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Paul Hawken
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on David Ho
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Ida Jackson
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Jesse Jackson
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Bianca Jagger
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Pope John Paul II
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Dr. C. Everett Koop
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Mairead Corrigan Maguire
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Colin Powel
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Leah Rabin
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John Farnswoth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on José Ramos-Horta
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
- Resources for Teachers and Students on Marla Ruzicka
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsworth
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John Farnsoworth
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John Farnsoworth
- Faith Seeking Food: Animals, Factory Farms, and Catholic Social Teaching
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- An argument that Christians must be concerned about the treatment of animals in factory farms.
Jesse Ramirez
- Formulas, Virtues, and the Sage: Reflections On Moral Wisdom
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- A paper from the 2005 SCU Student Ethics Research Conference
Matthew Spencer
- Is God Unjust: The Tsunami and the Book of Job.
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- A panel on the tsunami and why the innocent suffer, with reference to the biblical book of Job.
David DeCosse, David Pleins, Paul Crowley, David P
- Hafsat Abiola
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- Hafsat Abiola's Biography.
- Bella Abzug
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- Bella Abzug's Biography
- Mahnaz Afkhami
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- Mahnaz Afkhami's Biography.
- Queen Noor Al- Hussein
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- Queen Noor Al-Hussein's Biography.
- Maya Angelou
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- Dr. Maya Angelou's Biography.
- Joan Baez
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- Joan Baez's Biography.
- Harry Belafonte
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- Harry Belafonte's biography.
- Benazir Bhutto
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- Benazir Bhutto's biography.
- Sarah and James Brady
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- Sarah and James Brady's biography.
- David Brower
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- David Brower's biography.
- General Lee Butler
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- General Lee Butler's biography.
- Helen Caldicott
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- Dr. Helen Caldicott's biography.
- Geoffrey Canada
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- Geoffrey Canada's biography.
- Jimmy Carter
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- Jimmy Carter's biography.
- Cesar Chavez
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- Cezr Chavez's biography.
- Theo Colburn
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- Theo Colburn's biography.
- Jean-Michel Cousteau
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- Jean-Michel Cousteau's biography.
- Dalai- Lama
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- The Dalai-Lama's biography
- F.W. de Klerk
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- F.W.deKlerk's biography.
- Marian Wright Edelman
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- Marian Wright Edelman's biography.
- Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa
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- Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa's biography.
- Arun Gandhi
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- Arun Gandhi's biography.
- Chief Leonard George
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- Chief Leonard George's biography.
- Jane Goodall
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- Jane Goodall's biography.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
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- Mikhail Gorbachev's biography.
- Reverend Billy Graham
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- Reverend Billy Graham's biography.
- Architects of peace
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- Online Curriculum spotlights peacemakers
- SCU Debuts Peace Award and Curriculum
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- Mary Robinson and Marla Ruzicka named Architects of Peace
- Not Just About the Money
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- Business students defy selfish, cash-hungry stereotypes, according to SCU senior and Hackworth Fellow Carmen Wahlgren.
Carmen Wahlgren
- World's Religions: Common Ethical Values
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- This talk was delivered March 31, 2005, at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University.
Hans Kung
- Dying with Dignity
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- The president of St. Patrick's Seminary looks at the political and moral debate about physician-assisted suicide.
Gerald D. Coleman, S.S.
- Future of Food: An Introduction to the Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods
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- Center Director of Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics Margaret R. McLean looks at the future of genetically modified food.
Margaret R. McLean
- Government Ethics Cases for City Finance Directors
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- Scenarios ask city finance directors to give a red or green light.
Judy Nadler
- Pharmaceutical Decisions in Response to Epidemics: A Case Study
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- A video presentation, from the Ethics Center Conference, "The Future of Pharmaceuticals," which was held Oct. 3, 2003.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Closing Remarks by Malcolm Fraser
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- Malcolm Fraser's closing remarks from the symposium "Human Rights and Human Responsibility."
Malcolm Fraser
- Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: Closing Remarks by Abdul Salam Majali
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- Abdul Salam Majali's closing remarks from the symposium "Human Rights and Human Responsibility."
Abdul Salam Majali
- Ethics of Governance
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- Jamil Mahuad's presentation at the symposium "The Ethics of Governance."
Jamil Mahuad
- Medical Decision Making for Conserved Patients: When There Is No One to Decide
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- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has recommended a pilot study for implementating five recommendations concerning medical decision making for conserved patients.
- CEOs: Setting the Ethical Tone
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- The role of the CEO in setting a company's ethical culture was the focus of a panel at the April 6 meeting of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership, a program of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and 13 corporations.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Ethics of Human Capital
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- What specific social responsibilities should businesses assume?
James O'Toole
- History of Business Ethics
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- A history of business ethics, focusing on ethics in business, business ethics as an academic field and a movement.
Richard T. De George
- Silicon Valley Executives Discuss Building an Ethical Organization
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- These comments are excerpts from presentations at the Ethics Center's third biennial global business Ethics Conference, "The Accountable Corporation," held February 18-19, 2005, on the Santa Clara University campus.
Ned Barnholt, Dan Warmenhoven
- Culture Suggests Cheaters Do Prosper
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- Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson looks at the results of Americans' winner-take-all attitude.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Nadler Named Woman of the Year
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- Center Senior Fellow in Government Ethics Judy Nadler has been selected as 'Woman of the Year' for the 22nd Assembly District.
- Responsibility and the 'War on Terror'
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- How, ethically, did the United States get to where we are now in the conflict with Islamic terrorists? And where, ethically, do we go from here?
David DeCosse
- Humanitarian Interventions: Asking the Right Questions
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- What justifies humanitarian intervention?
Almaz Negash
- Bush, Freedom, Responsibility
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- The rhetorical absence of the word "responsibility" in President Bush's inaugural speech signals a conceptual deficit in the president's ideal of freedom.
David DeCosse
- Home Run or Foul Ball
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- What are the ethical issues to consider when a city manager is dealing with city contracts?
Judy Nadler
- Global Labor Rights and the End of the Multifiber Arrangement
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- Universities must decide whether to allow logo items to be made in countries that don't protect workers.
Miriam Schulman
- Our debt to the future: Will our children pay for the negative consequences of our current choices
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- When is it appropriate to ask the next generation to pay bills we incur today?
Judy Nadler
- Ethics and Public Contracting
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- Conflicts of interest in public contracting cost public confidence.
Judy Nadler
- Character Education Programs Expand
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- New programs and expansions of existing programs in Character Education.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Advice from Aristotle
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- Aristotle was a practical and business-oriented philosopher who defined principles in terms of the ethics of leadership.
James O'Toole
- Future of Food
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- The Center's annual biotechnology conference.
- Equal Justice Under Law
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- These remarks examine how the legal principle of 'equal justice under law' is widely violated in America. The United States holds the most
lawyers, but its legal system is among the least adequate when it comes to equal legal assistance.
Deborah Rhode
- Diversity and Candor: How Should We Talk About Our Differences
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- Peter H. Schuck delivered these remarks in line with his book "Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance."
Peter H. Schuck
- Frank J. Daly appointed fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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- Leading Ethics Officer and former Chairman of the Board of the Ethics Officers Association will join the Ethics Center's business ethics programs.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Ethics, Education, and Political Correctness
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- A look at how the term "political correctness" is used and what it really means.
Marilyn Edelstein, Ph.D.
- William P. Laughlin Lectures on Global Leadership and Ethics
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- A series of presentations by world leaders in various fields to advance the understanding of the role of ethics in international relations, to encourage global leaders to speak forcefully and effectively regarding ethical issues in global affairs, and to create an informed and productive dialogue on global leadership and ethics at Santa Clara University.
- Social Evaluation: The Body Shop International 1995 (PDF)
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- The report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the social practices, performance and impact of The Body Shop International.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Catastrophe In Darfur Six Months After It Should Have Ended
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- The conflict in Darfur is explained and suggestions for ending the crisis are offered.
Michael Kevane
- Accountable Corporation
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- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Cisco Systems are sponsoring the third biennial international Santa Clara University Global Conference on Business Ethics in February 2005. The conference is designed to bring together business executives and business ethics teachers and researchers to address several of the major ethical issues facing business organizations.
- Santa Clara University and O'Connor Hospital celebrate unique 10-year partnership
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- September 2004 marked the 10-year anniversary of a unique partnership between O'Connor Hospital and Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Recently, board members and employees from both institutions, together with community leaders, gathered at O'Connor Hospital to celebrate the partnership's anniversary and to reminisce on the grass roots beginnings.
- Stem Cells, Moral Status, and California Proposition 71
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- Gerald D. Coleman, SS, professor of moral theology at St. Patrick's Seminary, and Lawrence Nelson, Santa Clara University lecturer in philosophy discussed stem cells, moral status, and California Proposition 71, exploring the controversy over the ethical implications of stem cell research.
Margaret McLean, Gerald D. Coleman, SS, Lawrence
- Brief Case for the Moral Permissibility of Stem Cell Research
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- The central questions regarding the ethics of stem cell research are 2 in number: One, do embryos have any moral status, entities that deserve moral respect and are owed some duty? Two, if embryos have some moral status, what kind, or degree, of respect are they entitled to and what particular duties are they owed by moral agents?
Lawrence J. Nelson
- Notes on Proposition 71
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- Notes on California Proposition 71, "The Embryo Cloning and Stem Research Bond Act," offering a moral compass to guide us through these concerns.
Gerald D. Coleman, S.S.
- Ethical Considerations for Candidates and Their Supporters
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- The task of raising money for a political campaign can be so overwhelming that many qualified individuals don't run for office simply because they don't want to ask for money. Here are some ethical considerations to consider in fundraising for your campaign, or on someone else's behalf.
Judy Nadler
- 22nd Plenary Session Final Communique (pdf)
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- The InterAction Council returned in 2004 to Austria, its birth place, for its 22nd Annual Plenary Meeting to help restore moral centrality to world affairs. In this context, the Council considered the state of the world and examined two critical issues: the plight of the world's children and the justifications for military intervention.
The InterAction Council
- Action on Behalf of Justice: Student Activism and the Promotion of Justice at Santa Clara University
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- The following report is a presentation of findings based on qualitative and quantitative research seeking to document the individual and collective experiences of student activists at this University in light of SCU's Jesuit commitment to the "Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice."
Ellen Ritchie
- Ethics in an Unethical World - An Ethical Response to Hate
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- This show focused on recent incidences of Hate at Santa Clara University. On Tuesday, November 25th 2003, 5 Gay students were sent a hate email titled GALA = Parasite of the World. The email targeted members of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA), but also included sexist, racist and anti-Semitic language. Following this email, it was discovered that books written by Black, Jewish and Queer authors were defaced in the SCU Library.
Noel Fonseca, Joshua Crosson, Ellen Ritchie
- Justice, Security, and Peace: A Paradox of Values Preventing Israeli-Palestinian Peace
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- Based on conversations in Jerusalem with Palestinians and Israelis, the author examines how the paradox of the values of justice and security prevents peace.
William James Stover, Ph.D.
- Campaign Ethics: Considerations for Candidates and Their Supporters
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- Key issues related to fundraising, communications, and campaign conduct
Judy Nadler
- Internet Ethics: An exploration of how students use the Web for research
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- Miriam Schulman examines the way students use the Web for internet research.
Miriam Schulman
- Salvadoran Migration: The Business of Crossing the Border
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- An SCU student looks at why people leave El Salvador.
Jennifer Re
- Cases in Medical Ethics: Student-Led Discussions
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- A selection of medical ethics cases designed to help determine whether medicine is the correct calling for pre-medical students.
Chris Cirone
- Ethics Center Activities for 2004-2005
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- Peer programming, research highlight 2004-05 Ethics Center activities on campus
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Case Study in Social Capital Theory in El Salvador
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- Using the widely accepted social capital theory, Sonia Mungal suggests reasons why in El Salvador high levels of participation in community activities are not correlated with similarly high levels of voting.
Sonia Mungal
- Steroids and Sports: The Ethics of Winning
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- Steroid use by athletes is a form of cheating.
Michael Dillingham
- Bomb is ticking; do you OK torture?
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- Who is responsible for prisoner abuse in Iraq? Is there ever a time when torture is acceptable?
Rob Elder
- Video from the National Ethics Agenda for 2003
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- The presentations examine ethical issues such as addressing disparities in income and wealth, ethical political leadership, and allocating and stewarding water resources.
Jerry Ceppos, Kirk Hanson, Judy Nadler, and Willia
- Ethics in an Unethical World - Jesuit Martyrs
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- One day after the one anniversary of a massacre that ended the lives of jesuits living in El Salvador, this show honors their work, their lives, and the lives of the over 70,000 Salvadorans who died during that decade. It also discussed the Jesuit philosophy and the ethics of resistance to injustice.
William Spohn and Ellen Ritchie
- Ethics in an Unethical World - The Legalization of Medicinal Marijuana
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- This show outlines the issue of legalizing medicinal marijuana, an issue that has been in the headlines a lot recently and has brought up the issue of whether or not prohibition is legitimate.
Gerald Uelmen and Ellen Ritchie
- Ethics in an Unethical World - Affirmative Action and Equality
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- In honor of Martin Luther King Day, this show focused on the issue of equality in light of the most recent Supreme Court decisions regarding Affirmative Action in higher education. Professor Joondeph offered a brief overview of the history of Affirmative Action in the courts and also and analysis of the ethical issues involved. Topics such as reverse discrimination, institutional oppression, racial stratification, and the appropriate role of the court were discussed.
Bradley Joondeph and Ellen Ritchie
- Heads of State Issue Communique on Pressing Humanitarian Concerns
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- Leaders of the Center's Global Ethics Program attend InterAction Council
plenary.
- Plight of Children
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- Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson addresses the InterAction Council.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Role of Religion in Global Ethical Leadership
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- Religious leaders can serve as primary ethical brokers for their societies; that is, individuals, groups of individuals, organizations, or coalitions of organizations which are recognized by the majority of a society to be articulating the primary ethical concerns of that society.
Eric Hanson
- Problem of Global Moral Leadership
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- A lawyer looks at the issues through the lens of comparative constitutional law.
Jiri Toman
- Difficulties of Being a Moral Leader in an Unjust World
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- A real moral leader will hold us to an agenda that demands ridding the world of all important injustices, particularly those from which we benefit.
Jim Sterba
- Ethics in Contracting
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- Judy Nadler, senior fellow in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, speaks at League of California Cities, US conference of Mayors, and Fire Academy.
- Will city's ethics reform bear fruit? City Task Force Could Learn a Lesson from Picking Cherries
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- As San Jose's task force on ethics meets to review and revise ethics provisions of the San Jose Municipal Code, Judy Nadler offers the following observations on some similarities between picking cherries and addressing government ethics.
Judy Nadler
- Sudan's Civil War and Darfur
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- Scholars from around the United States who specialize in Sudan gathered to discuss how the world community can intervene to provide adequate protection to the people of Darfur and noted the importance of immediate action by world leaders against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Almaz Negash
- International Ethical Challenges for New European Union Constitution
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- In light of ten new members joining the European Union and to provide insight into the international ethical challenges faced by the Union, Pierre de Charentenay, S.J. described the complicated European Union constitution focusing on the aspects of the number of votes, number of commissioners, politics, and competencies at the Union and at national levels.
Almaz Negash
- Shopping for Non-violence
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- Non-violence is often considered impractical, but using selections from Mahatma Gandhi's "Love Versus War and Dictators," Ms. Bignell presents non-violence as the more desirable path to follow.
Katie Bignell
- Education in Plato's Republic
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- This paper examines the two explicit accounts of education in Plato's Republic, and analyzes them in relation to Socrates' own pedagogical method, thereby unveiling the ideals of Socratic education.
Ariel Dillon
- Red Light, Green Light
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- Ten ethical dilemmas facing elected officials.
Judy Nadler
- A Tale of Two Downtowns
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- How should a Vietnamese-American councilmember balance the needs of his own ethnic group and the needs of other segments of the community?
Judy Nadler
- Talking to Your Teen
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- This article highlight suggestions on how to open the lines of communication between parents and teenagers.
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Are we meeting our responsibility to Children? (pdf)
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- A 2004 high-level IAC report on the plight of children, concluding with specific recommendations for the international community.
IAC
- 2003 Communique on Collective Responsibility (pdf)
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- Last IAC communique on collective responsibilty global peace, sustainable development and nuclear proliferation.
IAC
- International Humanitarian Law, Humanitarian Crises and Military Intervention
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- In the last decade there have been more UN peacekeeping operations than the 45 years of the Cold War. This article examines when humanitarian intervention should be contemplated and what justifies it.
IAC
- Pluralism and Global Governance
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- Highlights and examines the role of the United States as the sole superpower in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and what responsibilities the U.S. faces as the world's dominating force.
IAC
- Future Evolution of the European Union
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- Short communique on the EU's challenges and opportunities in the future following enlargement.
IAC
- Future of Russia and Her Relations with European and Asian Neighbors and the United States
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- This communique briefly gives a perspective of Russia's likely interests and aspirations in the future.
IAC
- Opportunities and Risks of Globalization
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- Examines the dualities of globalization and makes suggestions on what could be done to further integrate developing countries into the international economic system.
- Enlightened Leadership and Human Responsibility
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- Short brief that describes what it takes to be an ethical global leader in today's world.
IAC
- Human Responsiblities Reinforce Human Rights: The Global Ethic Project
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- Professor Hans Kung lays out the relationship between human rights and human responsibilities in this 1998 essay.
Hans Kung
- Some Contributions To a Universal Declaration of Human Obligations
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- The former President of Costa Rica discusses the obligations that come with freedom. Mr. Sanchez' thoughts are part of the precursor to what will later become the IAC's Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
- Responsibility for Multicultural Education: An Ethics of Teaching and Learning
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- This article looks at the benefits of a multicultural education and how it can prepare students for the diverse world in which they will live and work.
Marilyn Fernandez and Marilyn Edelstein
- Supreme Court on Educational Diversity
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- From my standpoint as a constitutional law professor, a particularly interesting strand of the Grutter majority opinion is the reliance upon the First Amendment to uphold the right of public universities to value student body racial diversity.
Margaret M. Russell
- Neuroethics: The Neuroscience Revolution, Ethics, and the Law
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- When science expands our understanding of something so central to human existence, these advances will necessarily cause changes in both our society and its laws. This paper seeks to forecast and explore the social and legal changes that neuroscience might bring in four areas: prediction, litigation, confidentiality and privacy, and patents.
Hank Greely
- Who are the insurgents?
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- If the Iraqis are the insurgents, how come we're the ones shooting up their country and trying to get them to adopt our kind of government?
Rob Elder
- Universal Declaration on Human Responsibilities (pdf)
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- The Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities was drafted by the IAC leaders in 1997 to expand on the UN's landmark 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
IAC
- In Search of Global Ethical Standards
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- Concrete recommendations from 1996 IAC meeting in pursuing a global ethical standard. Cites historical progression towards a global ethic and the necessity for a truly unifying ethic in the near future.
IAC
- Is It Ethical to Shop at Wal-Mart?
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- Wal-Mart is frequently the target of criticism for its employment practices and its effect on the larger economy and community. How should consumers evaluate these issues?
Bob Brownstein, Jeffrey Seglin
- Politics, the Supreme Court, and Affirmative Action
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- The decision in Grutter v. Bollinger that it was constitutionally permissible for public colleges and universities to consider race in student admissions was transparently political, in the sense that the outcome was grounded more in the political choices of the justices and the surrounding political context than in any objective legal principles.
Brad Joondeph
- UN Official Discusses Restitution of Cultural Property
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- Guido Carducci, Chief of the International Standards Section of UNESCO, addressed the role of law and ethics in the return of stolen or "discovered" art and heritage objects.
Almaz Negash
- Shocking thought: Get serious about ethics
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- What steps can be taken to rebuild public confidence in the independence of elected officials?
Judy Nadler
- Gruesome tests on cadavers betray donors
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- We need a national system that eliminates for-profit middlemen and offers complete and accurate information to donors and their families about how donated bodies and parts might be used.
Michael Meyer
- Addressing Disparities in Income and Wealth
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- A look at the mixed and complex picture of the state of economic inequality in the world today.
William Sundstrom
- Ethical Political Leadership: Speaking Hard Truths
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- Some part of the responsibility for the unwillingness to speak the hard truths must rest with the public who are woefully mistrustful and uninformed about how government works.
Judy Nadler
- Improving Public Dialogue: Media and Citizen Responsibilities
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- What is news and what is it that an intelligent public should care to hear about?
Jerry Ceppos
- Allocating and Stewarding Water Resources
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- The issues surrounding water-its availability, price, use, quality, and ownership-are affecting local governments and citizens on a regular basis.
Judy Nadler
- Politics and Science
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- Whatever one's view on the stem cell debate, good ethical thinking
is never the result of compliance. It involves rigorous consideration of possible actions, not capitulation to a prefabricated conclusion, political
or otherwise.
Margaret R. McLean
- Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas of Newly-Elected Local Officials
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- As part of the Center's commitment to government ethics, Senior Fellow Judy Nadler convened 13 mayors and council members for Santa Clara and San Mateo counties to share the top ethical dilemmas confronting every person who comes into local elected office.
Judy Nadler
- Alice Hayes and Affordable Housing
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- A new city councilmember must weigh the community's need for affordable housing with the desire to preserve open space.
Judy Nadler
- Business as Usual
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- A retired city engineer goes back to work for the city as an independent contractor. When he bids for a job, a councilmember raises questions.
Judy Nadler
- Case of the Big Box Retailer
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- A revenue shortfall causes a city council to consider the tax benefits from a big-box retailer versus the potential harm to established small businesses.
Judy Nadler
- The Mayor and the Manager
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- A case exploring the proper relationship between city councilmembers and city staff.
Judy Nadler
- Old Friends and Conflicts of Interest
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- How do relationships with "old friends" change when someone is elected to public office?
Judy Nadler
- Sex in the City
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- Is an elected official's personal life legitimately "private"?
Judy Nadler
- Setting Limits: TV-Watching Is Not a Constitutional Right
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- What are the important, growth-producing activities that your child should be engaged in that aren't entertainment or media consumption, and how can you encourage these?
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- The decision to pursue and publish the Megan's Law story
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- What accountability was the newspaper willing to accept if the named sex offenders lost their jobs-or worse-as a result of publishing their names?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- The decision to give Armand Tiano's victims a voice
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- Should a newspaper print the names of victims of a sex offender at their request?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- The decision to stop printing the name and photo of the 9-year-old kidnapping victim
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- In a child abduction case, should a newspaper assume that the child is being sexually assaulted and not use a name or photograph?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- Report not unethical, but still lacking
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- A look at journalistic ethics.
Rob Elder
- Stem Cells in the Treatment of Diabetes: Therapeutic Potential and Ethical Considerations
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Catherine Mastroieni- Cheating is not the problem
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- Cheating is not the problem but the symptom of a larger failure in the way we are raising our children.
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Xenotransplantation: Weighing Individual Benefit and Risks to the Public
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- Welcome to the world of xenotransplantation, where healthy animal organs are swapped for failing human organs.
Margaret R. McLean
- Right of Way
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- As the California coastline changes because of the ocean's continual pounding, the question is asked who has access to the fluctuating landscape?
Rob Elder
- Gay Marriage: Theological and Moral Arguments
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- A theological and moral approach to the issue of same-sex marriages.
Fred Parrella and Rev. Gerald Coleman, S.S.
- Jessica Lynch, Hero
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- Integrity and truthfulness make Lynch a hero.
Scott LaBarge
- Status of Title IX: Gender, Justice, and Sports
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- Athletic directors from Santa Clara University and Stanford University discuss the ethical dimensions of Title IX.
Ethics at Noon
- Was Abraham Ethical? Should We Admire His Willingness to Sacrifice His Son?
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- The uses of the binding of Isaac story in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Carol Delaney, Ph.D.
- Ethical Implications of California's Recall Election
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- A panel discussion with SCU professors of political science.
Ethics at Noon
- Where speech isn't so free
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- Flying flags raises free speech issues at a housing development.
Rob Elder
- Defining the Institution's Values: Four questions to guide discussions of gift acceptance
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- Gift acceptance policies for universities.
Kirk O. Hanson
- A Case for Truth
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- A public relations professional is asked to counsel the local Roman Catholic Archdiocese on how to respond to the sex abuse crisis.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Short People
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- Implications of the FDA decision to allow the use of human growth hormone to treat short stature of unknown origin.
Miriam Schulman
- So few words, so many consequences
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- Did the ends justify the means in using the possibility that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for the war in Iraq?
Rob Elder
- Listening Behind the Questions: How Experts Can Improve the Public Discourse on Gene Patenting
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- Important ethical issues lie behind popular concerns about genetics.
Miriam Schulman
- Ethics of Ethical Advising: Confessions of an Ethical Advisor
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- Member of Geron Corp.'s ethics adivsory board discusses the delights and dilemmas of her role.
Karen Lebacqz
- Cleaning Up the Oceans: A Global Ethical Challenge
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- The chair of the Pew Oceans Commission comments on the ethical issues involved in the health of oceans.
Leon Panetta
- Framework for Thinking Ethically About Human Biotechnology
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- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Framework is applied to issues in biotech.
Margaret R. McLean
- Homeland Health Security
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- The SARS epidemic should convince us to prepare for the terror of disease-bearing microbes.
Margaret R. McLean
- Can Dictators Be Forgiven?: Political Change in Facing the Past
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- A panel on transitional justice.
Jane Curry and Robert Meister
- Maybe They Should Sing
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- American Idol votes signal greater openness to diversity
Miriam Schulman
- Totaling Up; It Was an Unjust War
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- Application of just war principles to the war in Iraq.
David DeCosse
- Freedom, Part II, Is The Hardest
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- Rebuilding Iraq should be a priority.
Rob Elder
- How Trust is Abused in Free Markets
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- In response to Daniel Klein's "How Trust is Achieved in Free Markets," Black looks at regulatory failures in the Enron case.
William Black
- Lost in the 'Logic of War'
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- War to remove Saddam Hussein from power without the approval of the United Nations is deemed an unjustified, disproportionate, and reckless response to Saddam's violations of justice.
David DeCosse
- Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
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- Letter to the editor of the New York Times.
Rob Elder
- Budget Crunch Ethics
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- A California State Assembly member discusses the ethical choices legislators face during a budget crisis.
Joe Simitian
- Friends don't let friends starve themselves
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- A student reflects on the ethical duties to friends who have eating disorders.
Meg Parker
- Minority Patients Need Culture Brokers
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- Cultural differences must be taken into account in providing medical care.
Margaret R. McLean and Margaret A. Graham
- Freud, Einstein, and Upaya: Contemporary Reflections on the Question
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- Using the Buddhist concept of Upaya to look at Einstein and Freud's dialogue, "Is there any way of delivering humankind from the menace of war?"
Diane Jonte-Pace
- State's accounting tricks cheat future taxpayers
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- The responsibility of one generation is shifted to the next by accounting gimmicks.
William K. Black
- What do we mean when we talk about ethics?
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- Application of the Center's "Framework for Ethical Decision Making" to current events.
Miriam Schulman
- Nation of Cheaters
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- A look at the rise in cheating in America.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Of SNPS, TRIPS, and Human Dignity: Ethics and Gene Patenting
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- Report on a Center conference about the law and ethics of gene patenting.
Miriam Schulman
- Confronting Unethical Conduct
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- Ethics for associations and nonprofit organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Is smallpox the real threat?
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- Post 9/11, we focus on protecting ourselves against a biological assault, but our crumbling health care infrastructure is a more immediate danger.
Margaret R. McLean
- Persistent Indeterminate State: Reflections on the Wendland Case
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- One of the lawyers in this precedent-setting end-of-life case discusses who should make decisions for incompetent patients.
Lawrence J. Nelson
- Tough Talk: Finding the Words for Living With Loss
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- Guidelines for discussion of end-of-life issues.
Dale G. Larson
- Last Things
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- Introduction to a collection of articles on end-of-life ethics.
- Reluctant Realism
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- Research on attitudes toward end-of-life issues in the San Jose Hispanic community.
Margaret R. McLean and Margaret A. Graham
- Bargain
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- Bargaining with God about death.
Miriam Schulman
- Blanket of Peace
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- A student reflects on her first experience dealing with death in her co-curricular work at O'Connor Hospital.
Maliheh Movassat
- Caring to the End
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- Ethics for caregivers.
William C. Spohn
- Red Light, Green Light: The California Cloning and Stem Cell Laws
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- A report on California laws responding to the State's Advsiory Committee on Human Cloning.
Margaret R. McLean
- Moral Quandaries of a Government Whistleblower
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- A first-person account of whistleblowing in regard to financial regulation agenices.
William K. Black
- Russian Hostage Rescue Shows the Danger of 'non-lethal' Weapons
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- Ethical issues in the deployment of supposedly non-lethal weapons.
Margaret R. McLean and S.L. Bachman
- An Open Letter to the SEC Chairman Harvery Pitt
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- A critique of Pitt's leadership.
William K. Black
- An Open Letter to the
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- Stronger regulation is in the best interest of auditing companies.
William K. Black
- Respecting What We Destroy
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- A framework for looking at the moral standing of stem cells.
Michael J. Meyer and Lawrence J. Nelson
- Is Halloween Ethical?
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- What virtues does the holiday teach?
Rob Elder
- Secret Behind Lower Teen Pregnancy
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- The determination of the African-American community to combat teen births, and the success that concerted community action has had in transforming child-bearing behavior.
June Carbone
- Where are the questions about war and ethics?
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- An analysis of the decision to go to war with Iraq.
Rob Elder
- Legal Ethics?
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- When an "outside" lawyer realizes that an officer of the company his or her firm represents may be engaged in fraud.
William K. Black
- Can You Hear Me Now? Marketing a War With Iraq
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- Should war be sold like toothpaste?
Miriam Schulman
- Building Character
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- A description of the character education program at Santa Clara County's Juvenile Hall school.
Miriam Schulman
- Shhhhhhh, Don't Tell
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- What should a physical therapist do when she suspects that her patient isn't being entirely honest with his physician?
Wolfe, Smith, McLean, Shanks
- We've Got You Covered
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- Covering for an incompetent RN creates problems for patients.
Wolfe, Williams, Smith, Silvestri, McLean
- The Case of the X979 Jumpstart
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- This fictional case study asks us to consider the ethical boundaries involved in intellectual property.
Peter A. Facione
- The Case of the Underwater Options
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- An acquisition raises questions about fairness and an employee's right to know in this fictionalized case about a biotech start-up.
Miriam Schulman
- Employee Loyalty
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- A company founder talks about employee loyalty in boom times.
an interview with Cheryl Breetwor
- Work-Life Balance
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- Providing time for family at a start-up company.
an interview with Warren Anderson
- Blurred Lines
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- What is company time?
an interview with a Young Entrepreneur
- Ethics and Company Folklore
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- One of the co-founders of Apple Computer talks about instilling ethics into company culture.
A.C.
- Hurry, Hurry
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- The role of rushing in ethical lapses.
an interview with Gina Pastega
- Who's Holding the Bag?
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- The role of banks and institutional investors in IPOs.
an interview with Donald Milder
- Vendor as Investor
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- Using credit with vendors as an investment in a start-up.
an interview with Bob Lorenzini
- Bush's Role in Corporate Fraud
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- George W. Bush and Harken.
William K. Black and James Galbraith
- Reputation and Venture Funding
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- The importance venture capital firms place on the founders track record in terms of their values
an interview with Floyd Kvamme
- Guilt (and Reliability) by Association
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- An angel investor talks about reputation.
an interview with Audrey MacLean
- Who is a Customer?
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- Hyping vs. lying at a start-up company.
an interview with Umang Gupta
- Teaching Values in School
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- The Center's director of character education describes Character-Based Literacy and other approaches to integrating ethics into the curriculum.
An Interview with Steve Johnson, S.M.
- You Are What You Eat
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- Personal responsibility in maintaining good health.
Miriam Schulman
- Six Es of Character Education
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- Example, emotions, experiences, explanation, ethos, and expectations for excellence.
Kevin Ryan
- Challenge Problem
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- Assignments that invite cheating.
Miriam Schulman
- When Inappropriate Behavior is Just Plain Wrong
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- An expert on moral development advocates straight talk when children do something wrong.
William Damon
- Panel Discussion of Deborah Rhode's Book
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Ellen Pansky, Margaret Russell, Alan Scheflin, Ger- Who will blow the whistle if surveillance oversteps?
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- How does an open society deal with the probability of future terrorist attacks without compromising the privacy and civil liberties of its own citizens?
Rob Elder
- Welfare and Marriage
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- Investment in women pays off directly in terms of lowered fertility and healthier children.
June Carbone
- Ethical Choice? There are SUVs and then there are huge SUVs
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- Gas-guzzling cars and environmental ethics.
Rob Elder
- Does Old Age Make Suicide Ethical?
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- Ethical considerations regarding suicide for the terminally ill.
Rob Elder
- How Leaders Should Handle Incidents of Sexual Abuse
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- Guidelines for bishops, university presidents, CEOs and leaders of organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Ethics of Disaster Relief
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- Application of the Center's "Framework for Ethical Decision Making" to the distribution of charitable contributions to the victims of 9/11.
Bharath Krishnamurthy
- Should Violent Felons Receive Organ Transplants?
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- Reflection on the decision to grant a California prisoner a heart transplant.
David Perry
- Taking Responsibility for E-Waste
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- Environmental damage from computer and other electronic waste.
Chad Raphael
- Racial Profiling in an Age of Terrorism
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- Chief Deputy Attorney General of California Peter Siggins discusses the ethical and legal aspects of profiling in the context of national security concerns.
Peter Siggins
- Ethics and Technology in the Wake of September 11th
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- Co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology discusses issues raised by the terrorist attacks.
E. Floyd Kvamme
- National Ethics Agenda
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- The Ethics Agenda was developed by the Emerging Issues Program of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Through this program, the Center provides timely analysis and opinion on ethical issues in the news.
Elder, Hanson, Schulman, McLean, Perry, Carbone
- Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
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David Perry- Expanding the Role of Ethics in Legal Education and the Legal Profession
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- Transcript of a talk by Stanford legal ethics scholar Deborah Rhode.
Deborah Rhode
- Double or Nothing
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- A discussion of cloning from scientific, ethical, and religious perspectives.
Robins K. Sterns
- Awareness Is Not Enough: Gender in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa
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- The role of gender inequality in the spread of AIDs in Africa.
Charlotte Vallaeys
- When Cultural Values Clash with Universal Rights: Is Multiculturalsim Bad for Women?
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- Cultural norms around marriage, divorce, and privacy may conflict with women's human rights.
Susan Moller Okin
- Extra Mile
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- Hospitality in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Miriam Schulman and Amal Barkouki-Winter
- Best Interests of the Child
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- How do we determine what is best for children in custody disputes?
leanor Willemsen and Michael Willemson
- Strangers into Friends
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- A group of Bay Area Jews, Muslims, and Christian Arabs meet to bridge differences.
Miriam Schulman and Amal Barkouki-Winter
- When Good People Do Bad Things at Work
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- Rote behavior, distractions, and moral exclusion stymie ethical behavior on the job. Discusses Ford Pinto case.
Dennis J. Moberg
- Why Should We Care About Racial Inequlity Per Se ?
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- Is a color-blind approach to racial issues the best route to equality?
Glenn Loury
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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- In desperate need of a tax break for his company, a CEO contemplates a questionable campaign contribution.
Leon Panetta & Paul Locatelli, S.J.
- Tough Talk
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- Talking to children about ethics and sex.
Miriam Schulman
- Spice for the Good Life
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- Finding the good life requires tolerance of human variety.
Brad Wilburn
- Who Owns the Moon?
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- The shift in focus from exploration of the lunar surface to exploitation of lunar resources raises new ethical challenges for us. Who will profit from these resources, or, as some have phrased it, "Who owns the moon?"
Margaret McLean
- Truth and Consequences
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- Learning from a child about the virtue of truthfulness.
Miriam Schulman
- The Case of Bad News
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- The new CEO of a corporation learns that he has inherited problems with growth and profitability. A four-day workweek and, eventually, layoffs prove necessary. Who is the CEO obligated to inform and when?
Gil Amelio
- An Education in Ethics
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- Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it?
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- Healing The Wounds that Never Heal
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- A medical researcher struggles with access to experimental procedures for patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Alfred Lane, M.D.
- Lesson in Perspective
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- A sample character education lesson using John Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
Steve Johnson, S.M.
- The Case of Due Diligence
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- How ethics can guide the conduct of a brokerage firm rewarding sales representatives with trips for the sale of a particular fund.
Thomas Shanks
- Gated Communities In Cyberspace
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- The creation of defensible space holds the key to commerce on the Internet.
Ellen F. Harshman, Jam
- The Case of the Sikh Temple
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- Plans for a 94,000 square foot structure raise questions about the zoning of a house of worship.
Mark Ralkowski
- Neighbor to the Assassin: Transitional Justice in Guatemala
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- Varying approaches to moving from civil war to civil society in Guatemala.
Miriam Schulman
- Bully Fish
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- Animals and responsible stewardship.
Miriam Schulman
- Income Gap
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- An examination of growing income inequalities between rich and poor in the United States.
By William A. Sundstrom
- American Myth of Divorce
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- A review of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's The Divorce Culture, the article looks at the impact of divorce on children and the ethical ramifications of attitudes toward divorce.
review by William C. Spohn
- When What We Know Outstrips What We Can Do
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- Our genes contain information that scientists hope will help in the treatment of many diseases. Huntington's dissease provides a window on the choices we face as medicine increases our ability to intervene in human genetics.
Margaret R. McLean
- Like a Bear Robbed of Her Cubs: Compassion
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- Compassion evokes not only tenderness but also the will to right wrongs.
Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
- Cloning
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- This paper discusses the significant ethical and moral questions intertwined in this "scientific" achievement of cloning by speaking with SCU campus experts in biology, medicine, religious studies, patent law, engineering, technology, agriculture, and ethics.
Robin K. Sterns
- Unanticipated Consequences of Technology
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- An investigation of the ubiquitous phenomenon of unanticipated consequences. Concludes with ethical implications of acting when consequences will occur.
Tim Healy
- Cloning: Just Because We Can, Should We?
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- "If we can, we will" is a dangerous motto for medicine.
Margaret Mclean
- Cheating Themselves
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- A discussion of why students cheat and what academicians can do to discourage it.
Miriam Schulman
- Nutritional Foods
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- A company confronts the possibility that its product is causing illness.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Paper Trail
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- Cutting down on paper waste.
Miriam Schulman
- Hope and Psychological Space in Guatemala
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- A member of the SCU faculty reflects on an immersion experience in Guatemala.
Timothy Urdan
- Cybersmut
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- From blocking software to legislation, strategies address children's access to objectionable material on the Internet.
Joseph Westfall
- Horizon of Faith
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- The relationship of ethics and religion.
Paul Fitzgerald, S.J.
- When Rights and Cultures Collide
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- The case of a woman seeking refuge in the United States from her tribe's ritual of female genital mutilation raises the question: Are human rights universal?
Karen Musalo
- After Dolly
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- Humility is the best stance when facing the unanticipated consequences of new technologies.
Tim Healy
- Welfare of the Community
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- A pro/con look at welfare as a remedy for poverty.
Joseph Westfall
- Moral Attorneys; Moral People
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- Law students reflect on the principles they intend to follow in their professional lives.
Richard J. Heafey
- How Trust is Achieved in Free Markets
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- A free-market approach to establishing reliability.
Daniel B. Klein
- Lofty Instincts
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- A review of "The Origins of Virtue" by Matt Ridley.
Miriam Schulman
- FAQs: Illegal Software Use
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- Ethics and software piracy.
Terry Shoup
- Impartial Jurors, Impartial Juries
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- In a media-saturated society, jurors who know nothing about high-profile cases may be jurors who know nothing.
Newton N. Minow
- Jumping the Gun
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- Election projections raise the difference between rights and the right thing to do.
Newton N. Minow
- Who Gets Seen
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- Access issues in health care.
Peter Facione and Noreen Facione
- Teaching Ethics and Teaching Engineering-Some Parallels
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- This paper looks at the problem of ethical dilemmas, teaching engineering design, and the implications which arise from the teaching of engineering and the teaching of ethics.
Tim Healy
- Spiritual Paths to Virtue
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- A review of "Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration"
By Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon
William C. Spohn
- Law of Advanced Directives
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- Legal Documents Can Ease End-of-Life Decisions
Karen Markus
- Time to Go Home
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- Long work hours have ethical ramifications.
Miriam Schulman
- Aid in Dying
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- A discussion of physician-assisted death.
Michael J. Meyer
- Confronting the Ultimate Questions
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- Advance Directives give patients a voice when they can't speak for themselves.
Margaret McLean
- Everyday Ethics
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- The role of ethics in everyday life.
Thomas Shanks, S.J.
- From Synchilla to School Support
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- Outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia is recognized for corporate responsibility.
Lisa Gardiner
- Tie That Binds
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- Fidelity to childrennot to spousesmay be a new way of approaching family policy.
June Carbone
- Life and Death With Dignity: Editor's Note
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- Introduction to end-of-life questions
Miriam Schulman
- Demonizing Our Opponents
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- Vilification of opponents degrades public discourse and threatens democracy.
Christopher B. Kulp
- May the Best Man or Woman Win
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- Establishing fair criteria for college admission.
Miriam Schulman
- Testament to Ethics: Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them
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- Review of two books on ethical wills with examples.
Miriam Schulman
- Affirmative Action or Negative Action
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- A different way to frame the debate over race-based preference.
Miriam Schulman
- Guatemala: Another Kind of Justice
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- SCU faculty trip to Guatemala spurs ethical reflection.
James Reites, S.J., and Don Dodson
- Bewitching Miss Julia
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- Review of "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" by Sherry Turkle
Tim Healy
- Immigration: Is Exclusion Just?
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- Ethics and illegal immigration.
Manuel Velasquez
- Who Counts? Images Shape Our Moral Community
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- The impact of images on our notion of how far community should extend.
William Spohn
- Winery With a Mission
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- Fetzer Vineyards exhibits attention to sustainability and workers' quality of life.
Miriam Schulman
- Is Exclusion Just: Martin Cook Replies
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- A reply to Manuel Velasquez's article on illegal immigration.
Martin Cook
- Higher Authority
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- Conflicts between ethics and law are explored in the context of illegal immigration.
Karen Musalo
- Moral Literacy: The Virtue of the Book of Virtues
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- An historical look at the moral power of literature.
Miriam Schulman
- Five Hardest Lessons of the O.J. Trial
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- One of Simpson's legal team discusses what we can learn from the case.
Gerald F. Uelmen
- Merger Mania in the Media: Can We Still Get All the News We Need?
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- A discussion of the ethical implications of media consolidation.
John H. McManus
- Ethical and Legal Concerns About Capital Punishment in the U. S.
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- Transcript of a radio interview on captial punishment.
Ellen Kreitzberg
- The Sole Remaining Supplier
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- What are the ethical questions involved when a company is the only supplier of a high-risk, life-saving product?
Thomas Shanks
- Challenging the Conception of Care in Nursing
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- Review of Helga Kuhse's book, Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics
David Perry
- The Performance Appraisal
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- How much should age and longevity with the company count in making lay-off decisions?
Thomas Shanks
- Ethics@E-mail
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- Attribution, access, and other ethical issues raised by the use of e-mail.
Paul Soukup
- Chapter One: Jonathan Edwards and Sovereign Beauty
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William C. Spohn, Ph.D.- Global Distribution of AIDS Pharmaceuticals
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- Ethical issues in the distribution of AIDS drugs, especially in the developing world.
David Perry
- 'A' is for Autonomy
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- A brief definition of autonomy as viewed in the context of medical ethics.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Killing in the Name of God: The Problem of Holy War
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- A look at war in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.
David Perry
- Privacy: Electronic Information and the Individual
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- The security of personal information in the Internet age.
Joseph Westfall
- Knowledge of Self and Knowledge of God
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- A reconstructed Empiricist interpretation
William C. Spohn, Ph.D.
- California Cloning: The Ethics of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
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- Report on a Center conference on the state regulation of cloning.
MCAE
- 'B' is for Beneficience (and Baseball)
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- A brief description of beneficence in a medial context.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Life and Death and the Applied Ethics Center at O'Connor
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- Durable power of attorney for health care.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- 2001 plus 28: The Age of Spiritual Machines
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- A review of Ray Kurzweil's, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Neil Quinn reviews Ray Kurzweil
- The Case of Maria Elena
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- What are the ethical questions involved when a person finds out that an undocumented immigrant is working in their home?
Thomas Shanks
- Only the Ethical Survive
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- A CEO discusses ethical business leadership.
Michael Hackworth
- Privacy vs. Security
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- The Center's Framework for Ethical Decision making is applied to privacy vs. security concerns in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Bharath Krishnamurthy
- Just War Theory Calls for Restraint: Stop the Starvation, Win the War
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- An application of just war principles to the war in Iraq.
Rob Elder
- Difficult Decisions: Ethical Issues for the American Media in Times of National Crisis
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- How media managers should exercise freedom of the press in war time.
Rob Elder
- Racism
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- Molly has just been accepted at Stanford University and calls her friend Terri to tell her the good news. Terri assumes that Molly was accepted because of her race.
A Student Scenario
- Treatment of Emplolyees in High-Tech Start-Ups
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- Weakness rather than evil accounts for many instances of unethical behavior.
Denis J. Moberg
- Are you Lost or Something?
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- A discussion of virtues in a hospital context.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Free Speech and Decorum: Some Thoughts on How We Talk About Terrorism
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- Is free speech the only principle to consider in covering the terrorist attacks?
Miriam Schulman
- Privacy Experiment
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- Invasions of privacy using Internet services.
Joseph Westfall
- Ethics in International Economics: The WTO, NAFTA, the IMF, and the World Bank
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- Transcript of a radio interview.
Michael Kevane
- Libraries on the Information Superhighway
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- The ethical issues behind access to sexually explicit materials on the Internet.
MCAE
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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- What are the ethical questions involved when an innocent prank turns into academic cheating?
Thomas Shanks
- The Long Distance Cancer Treatment
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- Does an HMO have a responsibility to provide care at the closest possible medical center?
Thomas Shanks
- Moral Community: Boundaries on Hospitality
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- Should moral community reach beyond the immediate limits of family and friends to include those who share our gender, race, class, religion, nationality and even humanity?
William C. Spohn, Ph.D.
- The Case of Wu
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- What are the ethical questions involved when asked to help out an illegal immigrant in desperate need of help?
Thomas Shanks
- Physician's Role in Organ/Tissue Donation
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- What are the ethical questions involved when asked to help out an illegal immigrant in desperate need of help?
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Prescribing Under the Influence
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- The impact of gifts from drug companies to physicians.
E. Haavi Morreim
- Good Start
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- How businesses can incorporate ethics from the start-up phase.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Parental Relations
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- Jeff is questioned by his mother about his recent behavior. Has one of them overstepped his or her boundaries?
Student Scenario
- Internet Blocking
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- An analysis of technological solutions to the problem of cybersmut.
Joseph Westfall
- Ethical Issues in Counterterrorism Warfare
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- Applying just war theory to the war against terrorism.
Martin Cook
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?
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- An exploration of the ethics of genetically modified foods.
Miriam Schulman
- We Must Stand Up for the Innocent while Demanding Justice
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- A reflection on the internment of the Japanese in World War II and its implications for the treatment of other foreign nationals in war time.
James Purcell
- Memories
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- In ethics, how we decide is just as important as what we decide
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Integrity
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- A student buys a paper from an Internet site.
Student Scenario
- Homophobia
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- A student discussion of prejudice and homosexuality.
Student Scenario
- Of Headhunters and Soldiers
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- Cultural vs. ethical relativism.
Renato Rosaldo
- Beaten Track
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- A dialogue on ethics and ability tracking in schools.
Shannon Peters Talbott
- Happy Birthday!
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- Ethics in a hospital context.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Questions Anyone?
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- Questions facing a professional ethicist.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D.
- Osama bin Laden and the Duty to Forgive
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- Christian ethics requires that we learn to love our enemies through spiritual practices.
William Spohn
- Repugnant Philosophy: Ethics, Espionage, and Covert Action
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- Substantive ethical analysis of intelligence operations
David Perry
- Henry's Publick House
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- What are the ethical questions involved when the media broadcasts hostile situations live?
Thomas Shanks
- Date Rape
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- Some students are at a party, drinking and watching movies. One of the students finds herself being taken advantage of.
A Student Scenario
- Vandalism
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- Students debate a revenge act of vandalism.
A Student Scenario
- Beyond Professional Codes
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- Professors in law, philosophy, and communication discuss media ethics, legal ethics, and the common good.
MCAE
- The Cyber City Network
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- An online network for city services raises questions about access and whether the provision of services electronically will increase disparities between rich and poor.
Thomas Shanks
- The Case of the Plant Relocation
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- Your company can make more money for shareholders by relocating plants to a country with low costs and fewer regulations.
Karen Musalo
- The Acupuncture Alternative
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- Do physicians have a duty to refer patients to alternative forms of therapy?
Anh Tran, S.J.
- Making a Space for Reason
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- An exploration of different Catholic traditions on seeking the truth
David DeCosse
- Sexuality, Gender, and Ethics
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- A presentation by Gilbert L. Stark Professor emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School and author of the award-winning Just Love Margaret Farley
- Medical Amnesty
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- Podcast of a discussion on university Good Samaritan policies related to alcohol consumption
Emerging Issues Group
- Searching for Whitopia
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- Podcast of a talk on white enclaves in America
Richard Benjamin
- Astrobiology, Exploration, and Ethics
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- Podcast of a panel on protecting life in space
Margaret Rice, Chrisopher McKay, and Margaret McLe
- Democracy Promotion
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- Podcast of a panel discussion on whether the United States should promote democracy abroad
Cynthia Boaz, Jane Curry, Farid Senzai,
- Lying in Government
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- Peter Minowitz, author of "Straussophobia," leads a discussion of "the noble lie."(podcast)
Emerging Issues Group
- Ft. Hood Massacre
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- A discussion on whether the incident at Ft. Hood was an act of terrorism. (podcast)
Emerging Issues Group
- Replicating Milgram
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- A talk by SCU Psychology Professor on his recent research into why good people do bad things
Jerry Burger
- Charity in Truth
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- Implications of an Encyclical for Business, Higher Education, and the Public, Feb 17, 2010
- Ethics at Noon
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- The Ethical Dimensions of Informed Consent
- Regan Lecture
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- Civility in a Fractured Society
- Technology Forum
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- What the Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization Means for Law and Policy
- Lecture
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- Faith-Based Groups and Neighborhood Partners: The Obama Approach
- Ethics at Noon
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- Fair Trade Health: Access to Essential Drugs for the Poor
- Ethics at Noon
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- Is the Common Good Still Possible: Reflections on Immigration and Politics in California
- Ethics at Noon
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- Is the Common Good Still Possible: Reflections on Immigration and Politics in California
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