Integrity10 reviews
Stephen L. Carter

Harper Perennial, 1997

An Invaluable Frame of Reference

+ Great beginning discussion
+ Society's integrity: finally someone has addressed it.

Carter is a master of framing and providing a context for complex issues like integrity. This is NOT a preachy book with platitudes about the need for integrity. It IS about defining integrity, the situations where it will be tested, and ways to think about integrity as you make your own decisions. ...
  
  











  



  
Honest Government: An Ethics Guide for Public Service
W.J. Michael Cody, Richardson R. Lynn

Praeger Paperback, 1992

Americans deserve honest government. Public officials should be honest. Unfortunately, these platitudes are not useful as ethical guidelines since much of what public officials do falls into ethically gray areas. This text addresses the need for a comprehensive statement of ethical behavior for public officials and employees at every level of government. Recognizing the need for legal reforms ...
  
  











  



  
Good Intentions Aside: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Ethical Problems
Laura L. Nash

Harvard Business School Press, 1993

The author emphasizes the need for business ethics due to the recent business scandals and the effect of these incidents on public opinion, and provides suggestions for handling dilemmas by combining good ethics with good business.
  
  











  



  
How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living12 reviews
Rushworth M. Kidder

Harper Paperbacks, 2003

The few. The moral. The good people.

+ Good Book - Needs to be Updated
+ Good people make tough choices
+ How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
  
  











  



  
Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron128 reviews
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

Portfolio Hardcover, 2003

Corporate arrogance gone amok

+ Lehman brothers: Chapt 11
+ Advanced accounting shenanigans don't create value
+ Fascinating bio of Enron for the layman, though a bit over-dramatized
+ intelligence is overrated
  
  











  



  
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders42 reviews
Connie Bruck

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989

It was just a party! A Very nice one!

+ This is a very honest book about life and how ethnicity on WALL STREET matters!
+ A expose of the Junk Fund King
+ The story of junk bonds in the 1980s
+ A Piece That Has What Others Don't.
  
  











  



  
Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in Business (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)
Robert C. Solomon

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993

The Greek philosopher Aristotle, writing over two thousand years before Wall Street, called people who engaged in activities which did not contribute to society "parasites." In his latest work, renowned scholar Robert C. Solomon asserts that though capitalism may require capital, it does not require, much less should be defined by the parasites it inevitably attracts. Capitalism has succeeded not ...
  
  











  



  
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right12 reviews
Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco

Harvard Business School Press, 1997

Tackling the Dilemmas of Ethical Choices

+ Surprisingly important book for new managers.
+ Defining Moments: When Manager Must Choose Between Right and Right
+ Thought Provoking Book
+ Required Reading
  
  











  



  
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life23 reviews
Sissela Bok

Vintage, 1999

Clearly Written and Argued

+ A very good start
+ An alternative suggestion
+ Academic Propaganda is a bad, possibly evil form of Paternalistic Deception
+ Applied Ethics
  
  











  



  
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classics)22 reviews
Stanley Milgram

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004

Disturbing Insights About Humanity

+ Freedom is Slavery and oxymorons of human nature
+ Must read for Psych students
+ Fascinating.....a must read!
+ Obedience to Authority
  
  











  



  
On Bullshit174 reviews
Harry G. Frankfurt

Princeton University Press, 2005

Reference guide to business ethics

+ Two Key Points -- No BS
+ Thin and Expensive but interesting

Quirky and very small (67 pages in a pocket-sized hardback format), this purports to be an academic consideration of the meaning of the titular word. And in fact it does give serious thought to the distinction between lying and BS-ing. Intriguing is the best review I can think of for this book, ...
  
  











  



  
Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet5 reviews
Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ...

Basic Books, 2002

The potential to change our attitudes about work forever

+ An important book with a critical message...
+ Good Learning for Career & HR Professionals!
+ Good Stuff...depressing as hell !!!
+ Good material....dry presentation
  
  











  



  
The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today's Business4 reviews
Jeffrey L. Seglin

Smith-Kerr, 2006

Ethical Business Puzzles Spelled Out

+ The Right Thing
+ Business Ethics: Role Playing in today's environment
+ Thought Provoking
  
  











  



  
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York108 reviews
Robert A. Caro

Vintage, 1975

More than a simple biography

+ How Old Man Moses Kept Rolling Along
+ Power Reveals
+ Biography at its very best...
+ A brief review for a big, important, thorough and ground breaking book.
  
  











  



  
Accounting Ethics (Foundations of Business Ethics)2 reviews
Ronald F., PhD Duska, Brenda Shay Duska

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Ethics

The book was sent at a speedy time. The sender did a great job shipping the book timely. Thanks!
  
  











  



  
The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart8 reviews
Jeffrey L. Seglin

Wiley, 2000

Running a Business Is One Thing; Learning to Think Another

+ Creating an Ethical Legacy
+ Wrestling with the Balance Between Ethics and Self-Interest
+ A sound practical guide
  
  











  



  
Perspectives in Business Ethics3 reviews
Laura Hartman

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004

Business Ethics was never so interesting

+ Very well done.

Perspectives in Business Ethics gives a good combination of the principles involved and the practical application of those principles. The firms that are used as case studies are very timely. Most people will recognize the firms and the issues that the firms are dealing with. This was a good ...
  
  











  



  
Ethics in Practice
Kenneth Andrews

Harvard Business School Press, 1989

Ethics in Practice includes 21 Harvard Business Review articles by corporate leaders of companies such as Cadbury-Schweppes, Standard Oil of Ohio, Phillips, and Morgan Stanley, and from well-known observers, including Robert Coles and Albert Z. Carr. The dilemmas they investigate represent painful choices for managers: whether to divest operations in South Africa, how to handle the rogue division ...
  
  











  



  
Good Intentions Aside: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Ethical Problems
Laura L. Nash

Harvard Business School Press, 1993

The author emphasizes the need for business ethics due to the recent business scandals and the effect of these incidents on public opinion, and provides suggestions for handling dilemmas by combining good ethics with good business.
  
  











  



  
On Bullshit174 reviews
Harry G. Frankfurt

Princeton University Press, 2005

Reference guide to business ethics

+ Two Key Points -- No BS
+ Thin and Expensive but interesting

Quirky and very small (67 pages in a pocket-sized hardback format), this purports to be an academic consideration of the meaning of the titular word. And in fact it does give serious thought to the distinction between lying and BS-ing. Intriguing is the best review I can think of for this book, ...