Ethical Systems and Corporate Governance

Posted by Marc Hodak on February 10, 2014 under Governance, Self-promotion | Be the First to Comment

I am excited to announce a new online resource for corporate professionals interested in ethics, governance, and related business issues:  EthicalSystems.org.  The idea behind Ethical Systems is to provide academic rigor to work on improving the ethical behavior of organizations.

This site is the brainchild of Jonathan Haidt, the brilliant NYU researcher and author of the bestselling “The Righteous Mind.”  Jonathan was grappling with the fact that ethical behavior has, thus far, been profoundly resistant to improvement via formal training.  So he corralled some world-class researchers* to develop individual pages devoted to specific topics such as Cheating, Corruption, Leadership, and (of course) Corporate Governance.

Take a look at it, and feel free to send comments or ideas to the researchers managing the pages.  This is intended to be a collaborative effort not just among academics, but between academia and the businesses this initiative is intended to serve.

* As the person maintaining the Corporate Governance page, I am definitely the least distinguished of this group