# Prof. Jonathan Haidt on business ethics and the launch of EthicalSystems.org

1 Faculty News January 10, 2014 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/your-money/in-life-and-business-learning-to-be-ethical.html) -- “'It used to be business ethics grew out of philosophy, with a focus on the right thing to do,' said [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'In the last 10 years there’s been an explosion of research in behavioral economics' and the underlying reasons people act the way they do."

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