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CES/ CLDR/ CSI Lecture: Additional Reading

 

Mr. Patrick Kuhse will share his path from financial planner to entrepreneur, to fugitive, to convicted felon. He shares his hard-learned lessons on how smart people can make seemingly inconsequential ethical decisions, leading to a slippery slope.

Selected Articles

Additional reading material has been selected by Jackson Library Staff. Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.

The Devil Made Me Do It. Business Week, July 2006
The article focuses on four ways cheaters justify their actions.
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Patrick Kuhse on Serving Time in Prison and Picking Up the Pieces. Journal of Financial Planning, Feb. 2006
The article presents an interview with former financial planner Patrick J. Kuhse about his career. When asked about whether he was an honest and ethical advisor before his indictment, he shared that he does not think he was unethical.
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The Slippery Slope. Simulation & Gaming, Sept. 2005
The purpose of THE SLIPPERY SLOPE is to expose participants to a complex process of how individuals and firms deal with ethical issues in business. The experiential game is being developed as a response to continued corporate unethical and often illegal decision making, coupled with perceptions that there is increased cheating in schools across the United States.
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Patrick Kuhse, Former International Fugitive and Convicted Felon, Addresses HBS Students. Harbus Online, Dec. 2003
Patrick Kuhse first started to feel dissatisfied at Arizona University. The Iowa country boy joined a fraternity where he confronted the painful contrast between his plain ordinary roots and his friends' wealthy families.
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White-collar Confessors: Prominent Offenders Speak to Their Crimes. Star Tribune, July 2003
Dressed in prison khakis and escorted by two federal agents, George Kline, a man once regarded as one of Minnesota's most powerful financiers, presented himself as a cautionary tale of the late 1990s bull-market-gone-bust.
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Selected Books

	Business Ethics: New Challenges for Business Schools and Corporate Leaders, edited by Robert A. Peterson and O.C. Ferrell. 2005 HF5387 .B8725 2005
	The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business, by Leigh Hafrey HF5387 .H34 2005

Selected Websites

Patrick Kuhse's website

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