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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business Review

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. You and Your Team Series. Mark Chussil.

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When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating

Harvard Business Review

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. The personality trait we focused on was moral justification, or the tendency to portray an unethical act as being in the service of some valued or moral purpose.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Employees, Morale, The Workforce. Morale wavers and becomes uneven, per operating unit and division.

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The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?

Harvard Business Review

Sure, I could probably contribute to economic growth more directly, by buying a better car (if they actually now make a better car than my 2001 Ford Windstar) and a bigger TV. The moral aspect is clear. Life is full of ethical dilemmas. But again, the money's not really mine to spend. Then there's a third consideration.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Rather than seeing WikiLeaks through the lens of morality or national security , let's look at it through an institutional lens. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

My contention, though, is that in looking at some of the beguilements — moral, even existential — beckoning to consultants over the last two decades, and at what we know about how Gupta responded to them, we might possibly begin to better understand how he could have gotten himself into the current mess. billion to $3.4

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What Kind of Country Reneges on Its Contracts?

Harvard Business Review

After a brief respite during the flush late 1990s, there have been 10 votes to raise the ceiling since 2001, usually accompanied by some amount of Sturm und Drang. This behavior makes clear just how unhelpful labels like conservative and liberal have become lately. debt securities did.

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