Newsmakers

Raising questions of business and ethics

By Dana Radcliffe

Johnson’s senior lecturer in business ethics, Dana Radcliffe, has upped the profile of ethics at the school through his many op-eds in the Huffington Post, including: “Should States Raise Revenues by Expanding Legal Gambling?” (Aug. 30); “What Are We Teaching the World About Democracy?” (Aug 12); “Thoughtless Doubts in Debt Ceiling Debate Could Lead to Disaster,” (July 27); and “Same-sex marriage vote shows moral leadership” (July 3), a piece that garnered broad regional pickup through New York state’s Gannett papers and Web sites. In these and other pieces in other media outlets, Radcliffe has taken the “marriage” of ethics and the b-school to a new and important prominence. In this edition of Cornell Enterprise, Radcliffe offers a first read of his piece, “Profits over principles? Selling technologies for political repression”