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The Ethical Risk of Business as Usual

Columnist Gael O’Brien wonders what it will take to convince corporate leaders to build into their risk management strategies the capacity to ask crucial questions about ethical liability, as is done with legal liability. Such a step, she says, would be hardly radical and would have the objective of putting ethical conduct on the table as a deliberate outcome.

Figuring Executive Compensation: Obama Finds It Isn’t Easy

For all of President Obama’s recent criticism of “fat cats” on Wall Street, his administration and the Congress have thus far proven unable to even begin addressing the issue in any fundamental way. New evidence of that can be found in the current The New York Times Magazine cover story, which focuses on the work of Kenneth Feinberg, the “pay czar” for companies receiving bailouts under the federal government’s TARP program.