Adjunct Professor Alison Taylor wrote an op-ed in Harvard Law Review about corporate ethics.
Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” But at places like Wells Fargo, FIFA, and Volkswagen, we can’t fully describe what happened by reading profiles of John Stumpf, Sepp Blatter, or Martin Winterkorn.
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My recent research study complemented a review of the diffuse literature on this topic by asking 23 integrity experts to identify the behavior and norms they would expect to find in unethical companies. The experts all had experienced direct exposure to scandal-ridden organizations as investigators, regulatory monitors, or academics.