By Yuri Kageyama   for The Associated Press

Kurumatani, the first outsider to be appointed chief executive at Toshiba in more than half a century, acknowledged the system of governance and risk management had been weak. He stressed he brought to the company his experience in the financial sector, where compliance controls were tougher.  Read more

By Amy Talbott for ZDNet

It’s one thing for a company to create a cybersecurity strategy, but it’s another thing entirely to put strategy into practice. Read more

By Omar Yousif for Daily Trojan

The competition gave 27 students the opportunity to present their ideas regarding ethics and decision-making to faculty members from the Marshall School of Business, Viterbi School of Engineering and Price School of Public Policy. Throughout the competition, faculty helped discuss ethical dilemmas with the students and advance their proposals. Read more

By Bruce Weinstein for Forbes

Depending on how you read it, the New York Times headline, “Stock Markets Tumble Amid Worries Over Tech Firms and Trade Tensions,” is either a bad omen or an opportunity for development in the tech world.

If you’re a leader of a tech company and want to avoid the legal, ethical and financial quagmire described in the Times report, you should do the following three things immediately.  Read more

By Tania Soussan for Albuquerque Journal

Ethics are a matter of basic common sense to the winners of this year’s New Mexico Ethics in Business Awards.

The winners don’t talk much about things like ethics training. Instead, they focus on simply doing right by customers and the people they serve.  Read more

By Coleen L. Geraghty for SDSU News Center

Management 444, Lori Ryan’s upper division class on Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, is not for the easily intimidated.

Conversations around topics like corporate whistle-blowing and Big Pharma’s drug pricing often escalate into lively debates, and students leave class certain about this: in business, the ethical trajectory isn’t always straightforward. Read more

By Nell Gluckman for The Chronicle of Higher Education

The internet and the technology companies powering it have shown their dark side recently. Racism and sexism have flourished, mostly unchecked, on social media. Algorithms used by Facebook and Twitter have been blamed for the spread of fake news. Read more

By Vincent Ryan for CFO

For CFOs that are trying to instill a culture of ethics at their companies, the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) has good and bad news. Unfortunately, there’s more bad news than good.  Read more

By Alexander Pepper for LSE Blog

This is the story of two cups of coffee, or at least that is where the story begins. The first, between me, Sandy Pepper, a Professor of Practice in the Department of Management at LSE, and Dr Susanne Burri of the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Discovery, which took place in March 2016 in the Lundenwic coffee shop on the Aldwych. Read more

By Bruce Weinstein for Forbes

There is no meaningful difference between the concepts of ethics and morality, but I’ll explain why you should choose one word or the other and stick to it in business and beyond. Better yet, avoid using either word and speak instead about doing the right thing, acting honorably or leading with high character. Read more

By John Boitnott for Entrepreneur

Nicknamed “Mad Dog,” the general is known for his intellect, candor and humility. Since his time as a junior officer, he has built a leadership style that has earned him the respect of military members and world leaders. Surprisingly for someone with that nickname, Mattis is considered a compassionate leader who empowers subordinates and tries to make them equals. Read more

By Daniel Rapaport for Sports Illustrated

The position’s description reads: “The ethics and compliance officer serves as the organization’s internal control point for ethics and improprieties, allegations, complaints, and conflicts of interest…”  Read more

By John Stout for Star Tribune

Is the Wells Fargo board of directors responsible for the unauthorized accounts and insurance mess at Wells Fargo?

Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve Board answered with an emphatic yes. Read more

By K. Matthew Gilley, for the Express-News

San Antonio is a very special place for many reasons — our unique River Walk, the San Antonio Missions’ UNESCO World Heritage site designation, and, of course, our Spurs. We are also special in another regard — the ethical leadership exhibited by our city’s top organizations, both in the public and private sectors. Read more

By Howard Greninger for Tribune-Star

“Reputation matters to all industry,” said Melissa Stapleton Barnes, senior vice president for enterprise risk management and chief ethics and compliance officer for Eli Lilly & Co., headquartered in Indianapolis.

A reputation takes years and years to make, but it can be lost in an instant, said Barnes, who was keynote speaker Monday for the 2018 Ethics Conference, the 13th annual such event, organized and staged at Indiana State University by students in the Scott College of Business. Read more

By Mike Averill for Tulsa Business & Legal News

Clifton Taulbert, a long-time Tulsan and author, business consultant and speaker, was the keynote speaker at a recent Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium meeting.

He shared stories about some of the people who made a difference in his life and the impact their actions had.  Read more

By Knowledge@Wharton for Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The field of ethics, or moral philosophy, investigates theories and ways of thinking that can systematically describe what makes acts right or wrong. This report explores how to view business behavior through the lens of moral philosophy. This is an important subject because, as we shall see, most business decisions have profound moral implications. They affect the products and services we consume, the work we perform and the world we live in. That is why understanding moral philosophy is a critical part of doing business ethically. Read more

By Issie Lapowsky for Wired

Tristan Harris holds his iPhone in the air, so the whole crowd of educators, technologists, doctors, and researchers before him can see the virtual wasteland of his iPhone’s home screen. Gone are the cluttered, candy-colored icons that a busy brain sees as digital snacks. In their place are but a few utilitarian apps, all set to the same bleak palette of black and white. Read more

By Henry J. Schumacher for Business Mirror

Competitive business has become synonymous with ethical business. Yet, keeping up with the heavy and complex web of regulations has made compliance all the more burdensome.

Establishing an effective compliance program has, thus, become a quest for any company not only looking to escape the long stick of the law, but seeking to position itself as a competitive business and ethical business partner. Read more

By Tom Friedman for Des Moines Register

As small business owners and managers, trust and integrity are essential for being successful long term. Sure we can lie about our products and services to make a sale. Or we can threaten our employees to get them to produce more for a while. But those are short term gains that cannot last. Customers will not give us repeat business and employees will eventually find better places to work causing long term losses. Read more