source of risk to any organisation Nick Chipman Partner PwC My undergrad degree in Philosophy deepened my understanding of morals and ethics; however, it did not make me a moral and/or ethical person. My B-School introduced a Business Ethics course into the MBA program in 2002, around the time of the Dennis Kozlowski Tyco scandal, in order to battle the "increase shareholder value" - at all costs - environment. You can't teach adults to be moral, this is formed at a young age. As morals are the basics of ethics, you can't teach an adult to be ethical (you can teach them rules yes, but in the broad sense, no). By the author stating that "...this desire [for more rewards] is so strong that leaders breach the ethical standards that previously governed their conduct," he is taking a a strong position that these individuals were at some point in the past ethical. While this may be the case in a very small minority of instances, I respectfully disagree with Mr. George in that I believe the majority of these leaders were never ethical people with a strong set of morals guiding their decisions. A rat is a rat. Anonymous Speaking strictly from a pragmatic viewpoint, and admittedly ignoring the full implications of ethics and morality, it's common human behavior that highly successful people will go to great -- and often very dangerous -- lengths to avoid being embarrassed. We see it all the time in our work. And the more