Financial Crisis: Living With the Legacy

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

A financial blow-up of, say, AIG dimensions is nasty for the company involved, its employees and its shareholders.  It’s the legacy of the blow-up that the rest of us have to live with.

Along those lines, the U.S.-led global financial crisis and subsequent cratering of the world economy were gut-wrenching, no question. 

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Frank J. NavranBook Review
by Frank J. Navran
The Ethics Recession Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis

Rush Kidder is a prolific writer and has penned an insightful series of columns for the Institute for Global Ethics’ online ethics news forum, "Ethics Newsline".

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Steve MirandaET Interview
A Conversation with Steve Miranda
Chief Human Resource, Strategic Planning and Diversity Officer, Society for Human Resource Management

Ethics During Difficult Financial Times

For this issue, Katie Lang of ERC sat down with Steve Miranda to talk financial challenges and making important cost-cutting decisions. read more...

Phillip B. Goldberg

Guest Column: Andrew Mitton

Bring Your Code of Conduct to Life

Most codes of conduct and ethics are struck by the curse of knowledge.  What's "the curse of knowledge?" you say. 

To answer your question let me describe the simple game of tappers and listeners.  I learned about this game in the book: Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.  Elizabeth Newton created the game at Stanford in 1990 to earn her Ph.D. read more...

 

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