Ethical behavior doesn’t always happen across a company. Sometimes, more often than should be acceptable, the single ethical employee calling attention to bad actions gets booted from the company for doing what’s right.
Honored to speak to two highly ranked MBA programs this summer
Over the summer I had the privilege of speaking to two MBA programs on the UT Dallas campus. Both programs are highly rated nationally, so it always gives me hope to see students engaged and determined to help make a more ethical work culture after graduation.
Speaking at the 23rd ACFE Annual Emerging Trends in Fraud Conference
As long as institutions and organizations offer their students, members, and employees the chance to learn about and openly discuss ethics, unethical behaviors, and what they witness in their interactions, we can help safeguard against future fraud and the harm that comes from ignoring warnings.
I was honored to present the 2024 J. Craig Smith Business Ethics Lecture at the University of Alabama
I recently delivered the 2024 J. Craig Smith Business Ethics Lecture at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. Speaking about corporate ethics to this group of future business leaders was an honor.
Tenth Anniversary of Speaking to UTD Cohort Full-Time MBA Program
These talks create a great opportunity for me to help students understand ethical issues and importance while gaining insight into what future business leaders face in their current professional settings.
Speaking to a UT Dallas EMBA Class
It was an absolute pleasure to speak to the graduating class of the Executive MBA program at the University of Texas at Dallas recently.
Resisting Corporate Corruption at the University of North Carolina
The class discussed the case about my experience at Citigroup “Write to Rubin? – Pressure on Underwriting Standards at Citigroup,” focusing on whether or not there were viable alternatives to my writing my email warning Robert Rubin (who was named Chairman of the Citigroup Board of Directors the following day) about the massive fraud I had discovered involving the underwriting and selling of mortgage loans.
UT Dallas Students Recognize Need for Ethical Behavior
students fully recognized the need for ethical behavior and decision-making and the absolute importance of maintaining their personal ethics in their careers. This recognition, truly, is the only way our country can reverse the continued ethical decline we have witnessed.
Speaking at the University of North Texas
The ethics students learn and develop now will affect their actions when they become move into the workforce. As Professor Madhuri Bandla emphasized to the students, ethics and integrity are absolutely essential to the accounting profession. Sharing my experience and the actions I have witnessed is my way of helping those essential features become part of a young accountant’s education.
Resisting Corporate and Government Corruption
For the ninth consecutive year, I addressed the beginning full-time Cohort MBA students at the University of Texas at Dallas on the last day of their two-week LEAD camp preparing them for success at UTD and their careers.
