Past Symposium

From Bad Business to Broke Employees:

The moral and policy implications of recent corporate scandals and the stock market decline

What has gone wrong in corporate accounting? Why are these activities coming to light now? Is this merely a transitory crisis or symptomatic of a deeper malaise in American business? What are the solutions?

Monday, March 17, 2003

Introduction

Darrel Mellendorf

Director of the Institute For Ethics and Public Affairs.

Participant

Martha Doran

Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy, College of Business, San Diego State University.

Participant

Doug Henwood

Editor of the “The Left Business Observer” and author of Wall Street and After the New Economy (forthcoming).

Participant

William Lerach

Attorney at Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes, and Lerach LLP, litigator on behalf of shareholders interests.

Participant

William Shaw

Professor and Chair of Philosophy, San Jose State University and author of Business Ethics, 4th ed., Moral Issues in Business, 8th ed. (with Vincent Barry), and Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism.

Questions and Answers