2/17/2023 0 Comments Conan teaches intern to drive![]() This moment that they would like back, this moment where - they were understood that they were participating in something shady? You're listening to the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. We're talking on the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page with the Rev. ![]() And at the trial, when they were testifying about it, each of them looked as though they were looking back to that moment and saying, I'd love to have that back.ĬONAN: Hmm. And I thought, okay, that's for the legal people, and they should definitely talk about it.īut as I was watching the testimony, or reading some of the testimony and listening to the witnesses for the prosecution - each of them, you know, had some moment where someone asked them to do something they knew they shouldn't do, or someone ordered them to do something they knew they shouldn't do, and they had a chance to say no and they didn't. They say, well, if they haven't broken any laws they've done nothing unethical. ![]() And a lot of people confuse ethics and the law. SULLIVAN: Well, it seemed at the time like it was exactly what you just described, a fraud case. It's great.ĬONAN: In your op-ed, you said that for years a lot of your colleagues used to come up to you and say Enron must be great for your ethics classes, all sorts of questions. Reverend THOMAS SULLIVAN (Professor of Ethics, Babson College): Thank you for having me, Neal. Thanks very much for taking time out of your holiday to be with us. In Sunday's Currents section of the Philadelphia Enquirer, he writes that what Enron teaches us is to ask the question, should we be doing this? Thomas Sullivan joins us now from the studios of member station WBUR in Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() Since then, though, he's changed his mind. He says at first, he thought Enron was less about moral grays than about legal black and whites. Thomas Sullivan is a Professor of Ethics at Babson College. They await sentencing and could spend the rest of their lives in prison. Last week, the former heads of Enron - Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling - were found guilty of fraud and conspiracy in the collapse of the former energy giant. Time now for the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page. ![]()
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