Ethics in Finance Wins Fourth Book Award
Ethics in Finance: Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) won its fourth book award this week. This time, the Global Book Awards 2022 presented the silver medal to the book’s author, President and Founder of Seven Pillars Institute, Dr. Kara Tan Bhala. The book won silver in the Business Ethics category.
To date, Ethics in Finance: Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street has garnered the following awards:
(1) Business Book Awards (United Kingdom), 2022
Winner, Best Book in International Business Category
(2) Axiom Book Awards (United States), 2022
Bronze Medal, Business Ethics Category
(3) International Book Awards (United States), 2022
Finalist, Non-Fiction Narrative Category
In the book, Dr. Tan Bhala gives a refreshing and instructive view of global finance. She recounts entertaining stories of an immigrant Asian American woman’s journey through the top echelons of Wall Street, with enduring lessons about ethics from her 30 years of experience across Asian financial markets. Her case studies narrate her experiences, in a humorous, engaging style. Yet, on the ethical problems she highlights she offers thoughtful analyses and serious solutions.
Readers will benefit from the author’s work in finance (on the sell side, buy side, research, and sales), and scholarship in philosophy. She synthesizes the two disciplines and serves up poignant and edifying realities.
Perhaps it’s astonishing that one woman faced so many ethics issues in her distinguished career in international finance. Or, perhaps multiple ethics skirmishes are more common than we care to acknowledge. The book testifies to Dr. Tan Bhala’s acute observations, assiduous note taking, and knowledge of moral philosophy. If the book moves us towards achieving the author’s stated purpose “to help you [young people], the future, to build a more ethical and socially responsible financial industry,” then society would be better off.
In his review of Ethics in Finance, Bill Tammeus, former Kansas City Star columnist, writes:
“The terrific thing about the book is that it’s full of true stories told in engaging ways… In this insider’s look at the world of finance we find a wealthy married man asking a female subordinate to set him up with a prostitute in Asia. We read about how women in a big financial firm were systematically kept out of a special inner sanctum company Christmas party (within the regular company-wide party) just because they were women. We discover whistle-blowers who get fired for bringing unethical business behavior to unwanted light.”
Read the Introduction to Ethics in Finance here.
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