Before going off to my 45th high school reunion on Saturday, I was a guest speaker at my friend Dr. David Gill's class on Ethics in Business at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA. It was a 4-day seminar for the MBA Executive Global Program with 23 students (mid-level executives) studying together for 15 months. Their companies are paying close to $70,000 per student to participate in the program.
My talk encompassed the point at which a company's culture manifests an overwhelming lack of ethics and personal indignity drive a senior executive to resign from a company. In addition to examples from my earlier career in international business for a Fortune 200 company, there were discussions about ethical problems I've found working in the micro-credit/finance industry in Honduras and Nicaragua.
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