Articles

Corporate Wrongdoing

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

Culture Suggests Cheaters Do Prosper

Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson looks at the results of Americans' winner-take-all attitude.
Kirk O. Hanson

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

How Trust is Abused in Free Markets

In response to Daniel Klein's "How Trust is Achieved in Free Markets," Black looks at regulatory failures in the Enron case.
William Black

Confronting Unethical Conduct

Ethics for associations and nonprofit organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson

Criminologists Needed

A criminologist's look at financial scandals.
William K. Black

An Open Letter to the SEC Chairman Harvery Pitt

A critique of Pitt's leadership.
William K. Black

An Open Letter to the

Stronger regulation is in the best interest of auditing companies.
William K. Black

Keeping the SEC on a Starvation Diet

Insufficient funding for SEC contributes to corporate scandals.
William K. Black

Repeating the Past

Learning the wrong lessons from the Savings & Loan crisis.
William K. Black

Link Between Moral and Market Values

Market value accounting and fraud.
William K. Black

Enron: We Slept Through Class

Lessons on ethics from the S&L debacle of the 1980s are being relearned--painfully--in recent financial scandals.
William K. Black

Bush's Role in Corporate Fraud

George W. Bush and Harken.
William K. Black and James Galbraith

Where are honest business leaders when this country needs them?

Can Americans really count on the ethics of the nation's business leaders to protect the average investor?
Rob Elder

Lessons from the Enron Scandal

An interview with Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson.
Kirk O. Hanson

Enron: What Ever Happened to Going Down with the Ship?

The responsibility of executives for company failures.
Miriam Schulman

What Really Went Wrong With Enron? A Culture of Evil?

A panel of Santa Clara University Business Ethicists reflect on the reasons behind the Enron scandal.
Business Ethicists Panel

When Good People Do Bad Things at Work

Rote behavior, distractions, and moral exclusion stymie ethical behavior on the job. Discusses Ford Pinto case.
Dennis J. Moberg