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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060409
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What if Sophocles had worked at Enron? That sort of thought comes to mind when reading Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.'s Questions of Character (Harvard Business School), an innovative look at corporate ethics through the lens of novels, plays and short stories. Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" reveals how an executive's determination and zeal can backfire if taken too far, while Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons" underscores the need to balance principles with pragmatism. A professor of business ethics at Harvard, Badaracco also explores literature by Arthur Miller, Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott ...

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