# Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses ethical failure in business

1 Faculty News September 13, 2016 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/roncarucci/2016/09/13/how-your-organizations-conflicting-goals-can-set-you-up-for-ethical-failure/#46cbfeef5f45) -- "Says [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), Professor of Business Ethics at NYU and founder of Ethical Systems, 'Good people will do terrible things when people around them are even gently encouraging them to do so.'"

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