Defining Business Ethics

Jeff Seglin
Associate Professor, Emerson College

Ethics is not just about right and wrong. In this leadership insight ethics expert Jeff Seglin discusses that sometimes making an ethical decision involves the consideration of multiple right choices.

Biography
Jeffrey L. Seglin, an associate professor at Emerson College, is the author of "The Right Thing," a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by The New York Times Syndicate. He is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books on ethics, business, and writing, including "The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business" and "The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart." Seglin was formerly an executive editor at Inc. magazine and has written for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Management Update. He is an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and has served as a resident fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard.