Executive Briefings

Published periodically by the Institute, Executive Briefings address contemporary issues with in-depth analysis and commentary by IGE senior management. These letters, mailed to members as a benefit of joining the Institute, are later made available online here.

Ethics Navigator: Emerging Class of Workers Poses New Ethical Dilemma

The labor market is being buffeted by an influx of new workers who are displacing traditional professionals:

Ethics Navigator: A Forecast of Emerging Ethical Issues

Institute Editor and Writer of Ethics Newsline®, Carl Hausman, considers the impact of new technologies on the privacy equilibrium.

President's Letter: Negative Campaigning

Shorthand conclusion: If you promote yourself by means of attack-oriented electioneering, you’ll be guilty of campaigning unethically, wrecking democracy, driving voters away from the polls, and becoming an unethical official if (against the odds) you happen to win.

President's Letter: Teaching Trust

One answer to the question about how we teach moral courage, then, must be to teach trust.

President's Letter: Aftermath of a Tsunami

In the aftermath of the December 26 tsunami, a number of nagging questions stung the United States: Are Americans stingy?

President's Letter: Falling Moral Barometer

“How would you rate the overall state of moral values in this country today,” Gallup asked, “—as excellent, good, only fair, or poor?” A solid 80 percent said “fair” or “poor.”

President's Letter: Moral Courage

Moral courage sometimes does seem “too good to be true.”

President's Letter: The Origin of Moral Courage

Moral courage is not merely a once-in-a-lifetime action that a few great people undertake.

President's Letter: Iraq and Moral Courage

Warfare involves more than physical courage

President's Letter: 9/11 One Year Later

Yes, 9/11 raised wrenching moral and metaphysical questions about America’s purpose and condition.

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