Tony Mayo

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Ethical Problems in Organizations

Tony Mayo

The “prison experiments” by psychologist Philip Zimbardo show “that ethical problems in organizations originate not with “a few bad apples” but with the ‘barrel makers’—the leaders who, wittingly or not, create and maintain the systems in which participants are encouraged to do wrong.”

Ethics 100
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The Shibboleth Project

Tony Mayo

We were proud to work at Arthur Andersen because this was way-back-when, before Enron, before helping investment banks was cause for abject ethical concern, and before the building we worked in […]. While a consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co in New York City I was assigned to a high-pressure project for a Wall Street firm.

Project 107