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How Leaders Sabotage an Ethical Culture
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Marianne Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the Department of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She has been a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar at ASU since 1995. She teaches graduate courses in the MBA program in business ethics and the legal environment of business.
Professor Jennings has done consulting work for law firms, businesses and professional groups including AES, Boeing, Dial Corporation, Mattel, Motorola, CFA Institute, Southern California Edison, the Arizona Auditor General, the Cities of Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson, the Institute of Internal Auditors, Coca-Cola, DuPont, AES, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Motorola, Mattel, Pepsi, Hy-Vee Foods, IBM, Bell Helicopter, Amgen, Raytheon, and VIAD.
Professor Jennings is an award-winning author and has published hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals. Currently she has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. Her most recent book, "The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse" was published by St. Martins Press in 2006. Her books have been translated into five languages.In 2006, her article, Ethics and Investment Management: True Reform, was selected by the United Kingdom Emerald Management Review from 15,000 articles in 400 journals as one of the top 50 articles in 2005.
Her columns have been syndicated around the country, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Reader's Digest. She received an Arizona Press Club award in 1994 for her work as a feature columnist. She has been a commentator on business issues on All Things Considered for National Public Radio. She has conducted more than 300 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal, government, legal, academic and professional ethics. She has appeared on CNBC, CBS This Morning, the Today Show, and CBS Evening News.
She has been married since 1976 to Terry H. Jennings, Maricopa County Attorney's Office Deputy County Attorney. Her five children are Sarah, Sam, and John, and the late Claire and Hannah Jennings.