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Ethics in Finance: Case Studies from a Woman's Life on Wall Street
Author: Dr. Kara Tan Bhala
Published: 2021
How is your book helping others?
I wrote these cases as a way to help young finance professionals, the future of the industry, to build a more ethical and socially responsible financial industry. Many of these young people will work in international finance across diverse financial fields. To that end, this book is international in scope and covers a broad segment of the financial services industry.
The book provides ethics guidance to finance practitioners, policy makers, and regulators by assuring them human beings are morally educable. I try to do this through engaging stories. The case studies form a narrative chain that represents a woman's journey through her finance career, inspired by Homer's Odysseus and his twenty years of travels after the Trojan Wars. Each case study starts with a story. Following the narrative, I highlight the prominent ethics issues in the case. For example, in Chapter 6 the ethics issue is quite clear: should a person engage in insider trading?