The Importance of Leadership in Times of Crisis

Pat J Harned, Ph.D, President, Ethics Resource CenterColumn
By Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D., President, ERC

Every research study yields some surprises, but we never expected to see findings like the ones resulting from the 2009 update to our National Business Ethics Survey (NBES). One of the largest surprises was the apparent link between the state of the nation’s economy and the strength of ethics in the workplace. 

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Frank J. NavranBook Review
by Kyle Goetschius
The Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business

Since 2002, the Academy of Management’s Critical Case Studies interest group has held an annual case studies competition calling for submissions that focus on the negative impacts of contemporary capitalism.

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US Sentencing CommissionPatricia J. Harned, ERC President, Testifies Before the United States Sentencing Commission
March 18, 2010

The Ethics Resource Center has voiced support for a proposed change by the United States Sentencing Commission that could lighten a company’s sentence if its ethics and compliance officers have been granted direct access to the board of directors. read more...

A Case for Cooperation: the Defense Industry Initiative

The near-collapse of the U.S. financial system is spurring new interest in ways to build an ethical culture and techniques to benchmark progress, not only by company but by the width and breadth of an industry.

The view is that in the course of the meltdown, the big Wall Street players successfully demonstrated that rules are necessary, but insufficient, to prevent reckless risk-taking and that a workplace culture of ethical leadership is equally essential. read more...

Phillip B. GoldbergERC Honors the Late Carol Marshall with the 2009 Pace Award

The Ethics Resource Center awarded its 2009 Pace Award to the late Carol Marshall earlier this year in a ceremony that was partly a celebration of ethical leadership and partly a memorial and homage for a beloved and respected former colleague. read more...

January Fellows Meeting Retrospective

Leo Wise, Special Director and Chief Counsel for the Office of Government Ethics discussed his experience in the prosecution of Enron executives to shed light on the role they had in the creation of a poisonous culture.

Michael Oxley, chairman of ERC’s Board of Directors, related his experiences crafting the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to the current efforts to effectively regulate the financial industry. read more...

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