Articles

White Papers and Reports From the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership

Ethics and the Middle Manager: Creating "Tone in The Middle"

Specific behaviors middle managers must demonstrate in order for lower level employees to understand that the organization is serious about ethics
Kirk O. Hanson

The Roles and Responsibilities of the General Counsel in the Organizations Ethical Culture

Panel discussion among general counsels of large and small cap companies
Tom McCoy, Craig Nordlund, Martin Collins, Fred Go

Reconstituting the Ethical Culture at Hewlett Packard

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

Managing Moral Responsibility for Product Use

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

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing (And More!)

An update on how organizations can set up mechanisms to identify wrongdoing
Carl R. Oliver and Francis J. Daly

Control Fraud at Rite Aid

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

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

Speaking Truth to Power: A White Paper

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

Character Mentoring

A PowerPoint presentation on character formation in a business context keywords, business ethics, character, role model
Dennis Moberg

24/7 Workplace Connectivity: A Hidden Ethical Dilemma

An exploration of the effect of digital technology on workers' health and relationships
Charles F. Piazza

Partnership Members Named Best Corporate Citizens

Advanced Micro Devices, Agilent, Applied Materials, and Cisco are among the top 20 corporate citizens of 2007, according to CRO magazine.

Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of the Executive

James O'Toole argues that great leaders encourage candor.
Jennifer Pittman

The Transformation of Work

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

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

Curbing Corruption Around the Globe

Summary of a presentation by Glenn Ware, chief investigative counselor for the World Bank, on the bank's Department of Institutional Integrity
Anne Federwisch

Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Ethics of Product Usage

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

Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson and SCU Assistant Professor of Management Shawn Berman describe a risk-assessment tool.
Anne Federwisch

Assessing for Ethics

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

Business Ethics Outlook 2006-07

Five crucial ethical issues on the agenda for American businesses.

Members of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Honored

Business Ethics Magazine names six partner companies to the annual list of 100 best corporate citizens.

Surviving a Federal Criminal Investigation

PowerPoint presentation on FBI investigations of white collar crime.
Jeffrey Bornstein, Tamara Neiman

New Strategies for Corporate Responsibility

A candid analysis of the potential and limitations of the corporate responsibility movement by U.C. Berkeley Professor David Vogel
Sharleen Sy

Sarbanes Oxley After Three Years

A Powerpoint presentation by a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate practice
Mark Bertelsen

Unocal in Burma

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

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

Robert Finocchio, former CEO of Informix, offers prescriptions for making ethics part of strategy
Miriam Schulman

Business Ethics in China

Stephan Rothlin, general secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing, discusses Chinese approaches to corruption.
Miriam Schulman

18 Rules of International Business Ethics

General secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in beijing offers a guide for doing business ethically.
Stephan Rothlin

New Corporate Governance: Key Themes for Public Companies Today

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

Sarbanes-Oxley: A View from the Perspective of the Audit Committee

A sixteen-slide PowerPoint presentation given at the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Bob Finocchio

Ethical Challenges in Human Resources

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

A study comparing European business practices to those in the U.S. conducted for the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Nathan E. Hurst

Perspectives on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board of Directors for Corporate Culture

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

A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Partnership Meeting
Vail Leadership Institute

Corporate Governance

A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Meeting
Bill McGrew

Ethics and Brand Value: Strategic Differentiation

A PowerPoint presentation given at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership Meeting
John Paluszek

CEOs: Setting the Ethical Tone

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

Advice from Aristotle

Aristotle was a practical and business-oriented philosopher who defined principles in terms of the ethics of leadership.
James O'Toole

Corporate Ethics, Governance and Social Responsibility

A study comparing European business practices to those in the United States conducted for the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
Nathan E. Hurst

Stopping Corporate Fraud

Joseph Grundfest, former SEC commissioner, addresses the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership.
Miriam Schulman

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations

How can businesses encourage employees to report ethical lapses?
Lilanthi Ravishankar