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Comment by Dr Haluk F GURSEL on March 9, 2008 9:24 am

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Gentlemen,
I would like to send you my CV to judge whether I should be among 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics. I am currently Chief Compliance Enhancement in a UN organization.
Here is my biodata:
Dr. Haluk Ferden Gursel, MA, CFE, CPA, CGFM, CFS
Chief Compliance,
UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL PROGRAMME ON AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Haluk F. Gursel has been Senior Internal Auditor with the United Nations, World Health Organization (WHO) internal audit office in Geneva, Switzerland since 1980. He also served as the investigative team leader of various fraud or suspected fraud cases.

Dr. Gursel’s duties have taken him to a great number of WHO’s member countries for investigation, evaluation, and audit tasks, including Cuba and North Korea. In addition to regular audits, he has performed special investigative assignments of great sensitivity at the request of senior management.

Dr. Gursel’s previous positions include general inspector of finance, government auditor, and bank auditor in Turkey (1967-1980). His responsibilities included a leadership role in the negotiation of the IMF’s rescue package for the country in the late 1970s. As part of his inspector tasks, he planned and performed evaluations and audits on various non-governmental institutions including the country’s Central Bank and Central Intelligence Agency, as well as private companies. He also performed investigations and expert witness tasks concerning fraud-related cases to the penal courts.

Dr. Gursel has published six books on financial and accounting issues and nearly 100 articles and contributed to numerous publications. He is a regular speaker at workshops and seminars. In addition, he is adjunct Professor at Webster University in Geneva. Recently, he taught the ACFE Higher Education Initiative courses “Fraud Detection and Examination in Today’s Business Environment” and “Fraud Prevention”. Currently, he is the coordinator of the Webster University Certificate Programme on Fraud Prevention, Detection and Investigation.
Dr. Gursel is the President Emeritus of the ACFE’s Chapter in Geneva, Switzerland and past Training Director of the Central European Chapter in Germany and has been instrumental in setting up several European Chapters and institutions against fraud. He is also the holder of the 2004 ACFE Outstanding Achievement Award in Anti-Fraud Education. In 2005, Dr. Gursel has been recognized as the Person of the Year Abroad by the Turkish newspaper ‘Hurriyet’, a large media publication company with around a million newspapers in print daily. He is also past President and founding member of the Swiss Council on Occupational Fraud. In 2005, he has completed the work with the United Nations as adviser for the UN Fraud Prevention and Anti-Corruption Framework and when retired was working on the accountability framework in his workplace. Following his work to upgrade the Pan American Health Organization Oversight Department and establish an Audit Committee, currently he is Chief Compliance Enhancement, UNAIDS.
His contact e-mails: halukgursel@hotmail.com and hgursel@gmail.com

Best regards.

Comment by Alex on February 21, 2008 4:52 pm

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I have to agree with what several other posters have said - Wal-Mart’s environmental promises have only served to cover up the company’s other, equally damaging practices. Not only has the company done little to achieve the environmental goals you praise (which, as an aside, don’t even address all of the environmental problems with Wal-Mart’s business model), it’s also failed to address the numerous other ethical concerns lobbied against it. Why aren’t employees’ wages, health care, use of sweatshops and the economic impact on small communities part of your “ethical” considerations?

Comment by Dialethik on February 18, 2008 3:49 pm

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You broke down all of the winners into nine core categories, it’s a good idea. But i don’t understand why there is no organizational communication categorie. Communication and especially dialogical communication is one of the most important part of business ethics.

http://www.dialethik.com

Comment by Dialethic on February 18, 2008 3:43 pm

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Your business ethics award is a brilliant idea. But I don’t understand why there is no organizational communication award.
One of the most important thing for ethic is normally communication especially dialogical communication?.

http://www.dialethik.com

Comment by Thad Wilson on February 15, 2008 3:18 pm

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Once again, you guys have found yet another way to trivialize the entire professional ethics field, and all those who labor in it. I note that you also didn’t bother to disclose that you have working relationships with several of the people on this list. Some of them are even CLIENTS of yours. You people have no understanding of the field, no love of the cause, and a endless thirst for sensationalism. You have no shame.

Ethisphere Response:

Possibly you are referring to a few of our keystone partners who made the list. We’d like to point out that they are on the list for the same reason we work with them: their excellent work within the business ethics community. Ethisphere doesn’t have ‘clients’ as you mention, but members of the Ethisphere Council – a group of businesses interested in furthering ethical business practices – did make it on our list. These companies did not provide input into deciding how the list was constructed.

Comment by Debra on February 12, 2008 2:25 pm

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Remember, this list is the most INFLUENTIAL people in business ethics, not the most ethical! Read the prologue to the results! Many of those listed did unethical things that got their stakeholders and the public talking about ethics! That’s noteworthy.

Comment by John Hiatt on February 5, 2008 8:04 am

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I’d like to know how in the world the CEo of Wal-Mart ranked #4 on this list. They are being sued for millions over labor law violations and have a miserable reputation for sharp business practices when it comes to dealing with their suppliers. Hardly a model organization, and if this guy is ethically tops then so much for the concept of “setting the tone at the top.”

Comment by Michael DeKort on January 18, 2008 5:43 pm

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#41 Maryanne Lavan - You did not do your homework
Check the lead article in Corporate Counsel this month – Attention Must Be Paid - as well as the text from the House Transportation Committee Coast Guard Deepwater hearings April 18th of last year. A hearing she was under subpoena to testify at. She was there to tell the committee why she didn’t do what she should have in her previous role as VP of Ethics for Lockheed Martin. I know this because I am the whistleblower the article mentions. More can be found searching on my name and “Deepwater”

Comment by Michael DeKort on January 16, 2008 4:30 pm

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You didn’t do your homework on #41
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1198058690626

http://transportation.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=143

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3294549&C=america
Search on my name and Deepwater and you will see much more

Feel free to contact me to discuss

Comment by Jeff on January 14, 2008 3:53 pm

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You obviously didn’t do any research

Comment by Ryan on January 6, 2008 4:16 am

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Kirk Hanson is alive. Thus, he deserves second place. If we forget about Wharton for a second, perhaps even first.

Comment by barbara h. on January 5, 2008 6:11 pm

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Is your 100 ethics list for real? The mistress of the Chinese who? the unamed employee? GAVEN Newsome, good grief! AND, Arnold Schwartzenager…whatever, in California. This is a joke. Right? :)

Comment by Anahita on January 2, 2008 6:51 am

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How come yr list has very few thought leaders from Asia or Africa? Like most publications coming out of developed countires, you have looked at people about whom information is readily avalible to you … why dont you dig a little deeper and go beyond the obvious?

Comment by Colleen on December 21, 2007 1:13 pm

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Definition of ethics: the discipline dealing with what is good & bad and with moral duty and obligation. What’s ethical (or moral)about mandatory extra shift work and NOT paying overtime because the employee had a holiday or vacation day in the TWO WEEK reporting period? Anne Mulcahy was VP of Human Resources at XEROX for some time. Something is wrong with the investigations and conclusions of these decisions. Of any corporation, where there is a CEO that spent time in any Human Resource dept., I would expect an ethical, moral watchful eye over human rights and the simple abuses of management over subordinates. The Xerox Service organization has some blatant issues that are not getting fixed. Employees are afraid of retaliation.

Comment by Michael on December 20, 2007 5:40 pm

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I’m not sure I understand (or agree) with the default connection between environmentalism and ethical corporate governance. One does not necessarily lead to or promote the other. As ethics is the central purpose of Ethisphere, if you think the environmental work is important, then have a separate list. But I see names on this list that are ostensibly being rewarded for promoting ethics that have made no apparent contribution to that end; rather they have moved their companies to be more “green”.

Comment by Jim O'Hara on December 20, 2007 12:27 pm

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You put Nacchio on the reviled list because he refused to break the law and give US citizen’s phone records to the NSA without a warrant? In fact he was the *only* telcom CEO with the ethical backbone to stand up to the NSA. He stood his ground even though the retribution was the NSA canceling their contract with Quest, which lowered profits, and that caused the stock price to drop. That drop in stock price allowed the government to bring him up on insider trading charges because he sold stock before the contracts were canceled.

Now the administration is trying to get a law passed giving retroactive immunity to the telcoms that did break the law and cooperate with the NSA.

I think your view of Nacchio is completely wrong. He should be at the top of the ethics list. He refused to break the law when pressured by the NSA to do so.

Comment by Roger on December 17, 2007 5:47 am

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They are influential for them ,they need to do something great for the society .That would really make them influential .

Comment by Mike Tanner on December 11, 2007 3:41 pm

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H. Lee Scott Jr. President and CEO of Wal-Mart named #4 for ethical business practices? What a grotesque joke. Shame on you and your publication.

Ethisphere Response:

As for Mr. Scott’s placement, he and Wal-Mart have come under fire for quite some time over a number of their business practices and that makes him a controversial winner. Wal-Mart has made some big steps in going green, particularly in its truck fleet’s emissions, and that’s what ultimately propelled him up the ranks. And - as a consequence - Wal-Mart was actually able to cut overall costs by implementing these green initiatives. Because of this, he was placed in the “Business Leadership” category, which asks the question, “Did the individual substantially transform a specific business’ operational practices consistent with profitable ethical leadership, forcing competitors to follow suit or fall behind?” Keep in mind that this list accounts for how the influencers brought about change within the year, not their overall career. Mr. Scott was able to show other business leaders that emissions/energy usage/etc can be cut, while still dropping the bottom line.

Comment by John on December 11, 2007 3:06 pm

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I know GE is not ethical. I work for them and I fight a daily battle to do the ethical thing. Yes the company has all the right sayings and policies but we don’t follow the policies to the “Spirit and Letter”, or we at least look for the holes that make the actions “legitimate”.

Comment by Sonam on December 11, 2007 6:22 am

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You must be kidding! You have all the penalists from US. Please don’t call it a global list. Typical of the western world!!!

Comment by jim on December 9, 2007 12:59 am

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If Immelt were an ethical person he would apologize to the shareholders for failing to do his job, return the money he has taken these last 7 years, and resign. The man is an empty suit who has done nothing. Immelt immoral, whats the difference?

Comment by STEVE BONZAI on December 7, 2007 10:39 pm

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what a despicable bunch