Ethics Articles
Creating an Ethical Culture
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is Business Ethics? A Video Introduction
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- Markkula Ethics Center Director covers basic concepts in business ethics
Kirk O. Hanson
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Giving Wise Advice
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- Results of an empirical study on wisdom and ethics
Dennis Moberg
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Toward an Ethical Culture
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- Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson identifies characteristics of an ethical organization.
Anne Federwisch
- Principles for Building an Ethical Organization
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- R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of Tata Sons, offers five principles for executives.
Miriam Schulman
- Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of the Executive
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- James O'Toole argues that great leaders encourage candor.
Jennifer Pittman
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Confronting Unethical Conduct
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- Ethics for associations and nonprofit organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Employee Loyalty
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- A company founder talks about employee loyalty in boom times.
an interview with Cheryl Breetwor
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Nutritional Foods
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- A company confronts the possibility that its product is causing illness.
Kirk O. Hanson
- How Trust is Achieved in Free Markets
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- A free-market approach to establishing reliability.
Daniel B. Klein
- Good Start
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- How businesses can incorporate ethics from the start-up phase.
Kirk O. Hanson
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