Mentor/s
Prof. Stannard Prof. Little
Participation Type
Paper Talk
Abstract
This interdisciplinary paper focuses on the unethical decisions of business professionals that led to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008. The paper addresses the importance of ethical practice in business and provides an overview of how unethical choices by financial industry leaders and practitioners greatly contributed to the GFC and the economic distress that followed. The regulatory legislation enacted by the US Congress in the immediate aftermath validates the extent to which unethical choices negatively impacted and destabilized the global economic environment. Conclusively, it is appropriate to reason that human choices can be better guided by certain rules and laws to help prevent the deregulation which helped cultivate the opportunity for unethical choices.
College and Major available
Accounting, Finance
Location
Digital Commons
Start Day/Time
4-24-2020 2:00 PM
End Day/Time
4-24-2020 4:00 PM
The Ethical Dilemmas Behind the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Digital Commons
This interdisciplinary paper focuses on the unethical decisions of business professionals that led to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008. The paper addresses the importance of ethical practice in business and provides an overview of how unethical choices by financial industry leaders and practitioners greatly contributed to the GFC and the economic distress that followed. The regulatory legislation enacted by the US Congress in the immediate aftermath validates the extent to which unethical choices negatively impacted and destabilized the global economic environment. Conclusively, it is appropriate to reason that human choices can be better guided by certain rules and laws to help prevent the deregulation which helped cultivate the opportunity for unethical choices.
Students' Information
Elisa DeSousa, Accounting & Finance, Honors student, 2020.