tailieunhanh - Conflict of Interest in the Professions

How important is conflict of interest to the professions? The answer is complex. Consider what recently happened to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), the world's largest accounting firm. PWC hired an outside investigator (at the urging of the Securities and Exchange Commission) to determine whether the firm was observing its own conflict-of-interest rules. The investigator reported that more than three-fourths of PWC's partners, including thirty-one of the top fortythree, had not properly sanitized their personal finances | PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN THE PROFESSIONS Edited by MICHAEL DAVIS ANDREW STARK Conflict of Interest in the Professions PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS SERIES Published in conjunction with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Series Editor Alan p. Wertheimer University of Vermont Editorial Board Sissela Bok Harvard University Daniel Callahan The Hastings Center Deni Elliott University of Montana Robert Fullenwider University of Maryland Amy Gutman Princeton University Stephen E. Kalish University of Nebraska-Lincoln Thomas H. Murray Case Western Reserve University Michael Pritchard Western Michigan University Henry Shue Cornell University David H. Smith Indiana University Dennis F. Thompson Harvard University Vivian Weil Illinois Institute of Technology Brian Schrag Executive Secretary of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Practical Ethics A Collection of Addresses and Essays Henry Sedgwick With an Introduction by Sissela Bok Thinking Like an Engineer Studies in the Ethics of a Profession Michael Davis Deliberative Politics Essays on Democracy and Disagreement Edited by Stephen Macedo Conflict of Interest in the Professions Edited by Michael Davis and Andrew .