Dan Ariely on ‘The Honest Truth About Dishonesty’

Everyone cheats a little from time to time. But most major betrayals within organizations — from accounting fraud to doping in sports — start with a first step that crosses the line, according to Dan Ariely, a leading behavioral economist at Duke and author of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves. That step can start people on a … [ Read more ]

Pondering the Ethics of Global Business

Ethical dilemmas such as selling scanners that can tell the sex of an unborn child or kerosene heaters without U.S.-required safety features were debated during a discussion on “Academic vs. Real World Ethics” led by Stanford Professor David Brady. View the full video.