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Mobile Technology and Social Media - Ethical Implications

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

The Dhaka Factory Fire: Who Is Responsible?

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

Is it wrong for an Internet company to share users' information with third-parties and advertisers?
Alexis Babb and Amanda Nelson

Chinese Perspectives on Doing Business in China

Summary of a panel featuring Liu Baocheng, director of the Center for International Business Ethics
Margaret Steen

Western Perspectives on Business Practices in China

Summary of a panel featuring Chris Cooper, Deloitte; Carson Block, Muddywaters; and David Chen, Microsoft.
Margaret Steen

Building an Ethical Business Culture in China

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

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

Five takeaways from a meeting on Business Ethics in China
Margaret Steen

Patterns of Fraud in the Chinese Market

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?

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

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

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

Sustaining Ernst & Young's Ethical Culture

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

Taking Your Code to China

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

Looks at global issues of bribery
Rob Weisberg, Global Ethics Officer, Nokia Siemens

Beyond Compliance: Globalization Demands More Effective Programs

Management of values in a business organization
Kirk O. Hanson

Doing Business in Asia: The Ethical Challenges

Remarks from the seminar, "Worlds in Collision? East Meets West: Doing Business and Investing in Asia"
Kirk O. Hanson

Easy on the Wallet or Easy on the Earth: A Case About Ethics in Sourcing

A company must decide whether to order cheap shirts from China or expensive shirts from a local eco-friendly manufacturer.
Meghan Skarzynski

Business Ethics in China

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

Taking my Business to China

Podcast of a May 17, 2010, talk by Stephan Rothlin, S.J.
Stephan Rothlin, S.J.

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

Identifying and Investigating Fraud and Corruption

A presentation on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other international anti-corruption laws
Bob Mattson and Craig Martin, Partners, Morrison &

Business Ethics in China: Resources

Collection of materials on business ethics in China from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships

Reflections on Markets and the Bottom Billion
Dennis Moberg and Nicholas Santos, S.J.

An Introduction to Caritas in Veritate

An outline of the key themes of the papal ecyclical on economic issues
Kirk O. Hanson

Global Anti-Corruption Regulatory Climate--Protecting You and Your Company

A joint program with Morrison Foerster explores how to protect yourself and your company

Global Anti-Corruption Regulatory Climate

A panel co-sponsored by the Center and Morrison Foerster addresses how companies can protect themselves.

International Anti-Corruption Statutes and the FCPA

Panel discussion on the costs and challenges of corruption for companies doing business internationally
M. Horowitz, N. Zucker Boswell, M. Doyle, R. Matts

Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Federal Monitors

Cutting-Edge Issues in Compliance and Business Conduct conference sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, BECA & ECOA

Business Ethics in the Chinese Context

Director of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing Stephan Rothlin talks about progress and challenges.
Miriam Schulman

Consumer Rights and Corporate Responsibility

Issues in protecting consumer rights in China were the focus of this international business ethics conference.

Principles for Building an Ethical Organization

R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of Tata Sons, offers five principles for executives.
Miriam Schulman

Verite Executive Director Visits Center

Dan Viederman discusses the work of his organization.

Business Ethics in China: Challenges and Opportunities

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

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

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

Marketing professor Jagdish Sheth looks at the new "Asian Century."
Margaret Steen

2006-07 Business Ethics Outlook Press Briefing

Transcript of a press briefing about five critical ethical issues facing American businesses.
Jerry, Robert Finocchio, Kirk O. Hanson

Business Ethics Outlook 2006-07

Five crucial ethical issues on the agenda for American businesses.

Re-examining Your China Strategy

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

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

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