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- March 11, 2010
ERC President, Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D. participated in developing these HGPII initiatives.
At Annual Best Practices Forum, GPO Leaders Urge Congress and Others to Enhance Transparency in the Healthcare Supply Chain
- March 4, 2010
From Investor.com by Steve Watkins
Focus on doing things ethically to achieve long-term success. Companies that fail to do that show up on the news for the wrong reasons, such as fraud or facing lawsuits. To avoid that and do the right thing:
Emphasize their significance. Cheating and misleading people might work in the short term. But over the long run they'll come back to bite you. Ethical actions help reap lasting gains.
- February 25, 2010
Download the first in a series of Supplemental Research Briefs drawn from the 2009 NBES:
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- January 20, 2010
Arlington, Va. -- Carol Marshall, a former Ethics Resource Center board member and business ethics leader at Lockheed Martin and MCI has been named posthumously as the recipient of the 2009 Pace Award, ERC President Patricia J. Harned announced.
Mrs. Marshall, an attorney and dedicated promoter of ethics in business for almost a quarter-century, died on Sept. 21 of pancreatic cancer at Washington Center Hospice in Washington, D.C. She was 56.
- January 14, 2010
From TheStreet.com
by Lauren Bloom
The new year presents a fresh opportunity for companies to make a clean start when it comes to business ethics. According to a recent survey from the Ethics Resource Center, now is a great time to do it.
ERC in the News
- March 7, 2010The Desert Sun
Operating an honest, ethical business may seem like a no-brainer.
But in today's highly competitive business environment, the temptation to bend the rules looms large.
And don't think that it's OK to do something “just this once.” Not only is a wrong choice always wrong, but one-time ethics breaches often become habits.
- March 7, 2010The Journal Gazette
A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they’re any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a “culture of corruption” in 2006.
- March 4, 2010Investor.com
Focus on doing things ethically to achieve long-term success. Companies that fail to do that show up on the news for the wrong reasons, such as fraud or facing lawsuits. To avoid that and do the right thing:
Emphasize their significance. Cheating and misleading people might work in the short term. But over the long run they'll come back to bite you. Ethical actions help reap lasting gains.
- February 15, 2010
Individuals Who Report Ethical Misconduct Unfortunately Often Put Their Jobs on the Line
According to the Ethics Resource Center, approximately 25% of government employees who observe misconduct decline to report it because of potential repercussions. Narrowed to clinical trials, that statistic almost certainly gets worse. Lacking a credible promise of legal sanctuary, prospective whistle-blowers’ fear of retaliation may heavily chill their speech.
- February 1, 2010Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) | ACC Docket - January/February 2010
By James A. Nortz
The NBES is the only nationwide longitudinal study that tracks the views of employees at all levels within organizations to reveal a real-life view of their ethics performance and the ethics risks they face. This year’s results, published in mid-November, surprised even the ERC.
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