Ethics in Finance Wins Fifth Book Award

Ethics in Finance: Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) won its fifth book award! This time, the Goody Business Book Awards 2022 announced Ethics in Finance as the winner in the Business Education category and presented the prize to its author, President and Founder of Seven Pillars Institute, Dr. Kara Tan Bhala.

The Goody Business Book Awards is a Social Impact Book Award

Award-winning authors are selected by a panel of marketing and communications judges based on the quality and social impact of their books. How the author’s book helps others (save money, eat healthier, invest in real estate, start a company, educate readers, inspire readers, be a better leader) is highlighted next to their award and each book on the Goody Business Book Awards category pages. Each winner was asked to write a short paragraph on how their book helped others.

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?

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