Building an ethical culture: Leadership’s role in corporate integrity

Building an ethical culture: Leadership’s role in corporate integrity 
The Wall Street Journal; by Lori Pressler, Michael Rossen and Miira Velia; 5/7/25 
Built from the top down, a strong ethical culture can help mitigate risk by weaving ethics into decision-making at every level. Much of the time, a single moment or lapse in judgment does not precipitate a crisis. Instead, corporate scandals tend to spring from systemic failures in corporate culture, specifically around ethics. However, within many organizations, ethics are often discussed in theoretical terms—lofty yet nebulous aspirations or nice-to-haves. ... Given its potential for harm, organizations may not be giving ethical risk the attention it deserves, particularly from the top down.