W. Baird Distinguished Lecture Series: Marianne Jennings

Professor Marianne M. Jennings
"What Makes Really Smart and Good People Do Really Dumb and Unethical Things"

Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 7 p.m. 

Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her J.D. degree from Brigham Young University.  She is Professor Legal and Ethical Studies at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.  She has authored more than 150 articles in academic, professional and trade journals, and at least eight textbooks and monographs.  A Business Tale: A Story of Ethics, Choices, Success, and a Very Large Rabbit (2003), a fable about business ethics, was chosen by the Library Journal as its business book of the year.  Her latest book is The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse (2006).  her columns have been syndicated around the country, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Reader's Digest.