Sessions
What Government Auditors Miss: Ethical Culture and How it Serves as Red Flag for Ethical Lapses
9:10 AM - 10:00 AM Wed
Professor Marianne Jennings served as a professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University from 1977-2015. She has been an emeritus professor at Arizona State University since 2015. In addition to serving as an associate dean and director of the Executive MBA program, she served as director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University from 1995-1999. She continues to teach graduate courses in business ethics and ethical culture at ASU and other colleges around the country. . She is an instructor and mentor for Wiley’s CPAExcel review course.
Professor Jennings has hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals. In 2006, Emerald Management Review named her article, “Ethics and Investment Management,” one of the top 50 articles in 2005. She was named a Top 100 Thought Leader by Trust Across America and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. She is a contributing editor for Ethikos and the Real Estate Law Journal.
She has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. The ninth edition of her Business Ethics was published in 2017 and its 10th edition will be published in 2022. The twelfth editions of her texts, Real Estate Law and Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment, will also be published in 2022. Her Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse is used as an audit tool and a primer on corporate culture.
Her columns have been syndicated, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and Washington Post. During 1984-85, she served as then-Governor Bruce Babbitt’s appointee to the Arizona Corporation Commission. In 1999 she was appointed by then-Governor Jane Dee Hull to the Arizona Commission on Character. She served on the board of directors for Arizona Public Service (now Pinnacle West Capital Corporation), the owner of the Palo Verde Nuclear Station, from 1987 through 2000.