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Barbara Ley Toffler, PhD
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- Author of Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall
of Arthur Andersen, described as “a fascinating insider expose” that “may be the most important analysis coming out of the corporate
disasters of 2001 and 2002.”
- Wrote Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics,
published in 1986, reprinted in paperback in 1991 as Managers Talk
Ethics: Making Tough choices in a Competitive Business World, one of the first books to explore the experience of managers and business leaders as they grapple with the
ethical challenges of a rapidly changing global economy.
- Considered one of the nation’s leading experts on management ethics.
- Former Harvard Business School professor. Taught at Boston University School of Management,
Columbia Business School, and Yale School of Management.
- Founding Principal of Resources for Responsible Management, Inc., a Boston-based consulting
firm.
- Advises, teaches and consults in Organizational Behavior, specifically in the areas of
Leadership, Managerial Decision-making, Responsible Business Practices, and Organizational Ethics.
- Consulted on, designed and taught programs in organizational behavior, management practices,
and ethics for over one hundred companies, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
- Consulted and presented seminars in Japan, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, France and the UK.
- Delivered presentations and speeches to over fifty trade associations, universities and
institutes.
- Developed and presents her enthusiastically-received program, Dramatic Beginnings in
Management Ethics, in which professional actors present scenes from plays and other forms of dramatic
literature as the basis for business and management-related discussion which she facilitates.
- Frequently quoted in numerous publications including
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and
BusinessWeek magazine.
- Television appearances include “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” a profile on PBS’ “Religion
and Ethics Weekly,” CBS’ “MarketWatch,” CNNfn’s “Market Call,” WB11’s, “News Close-Up,” and CNBC’s
“The Dick Cavett Show.” She has been a guest on several public radio programs including “Fresh Air”
and “Marketplace.”
- Story consultant and on-camera narrator for Business Ethics (Blue Ribbon Award, American
Film & Video Festival), Business Ethics: We Were Just Following Orders and What Are Friends For?
(“Recommended” - ABC-CLIO Video Rating Guide for Libraries) videotapes produced by WGBH for
Coronet/MTI (film division of Simon & Schuster).
- Producer and writer for vignette based videos for The Exxon Corporation, Exxon Exploration,
Exxon USA, GPU and British Telecom.
- Included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who Registry of Global Business Leaders and
the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women.
- Holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University where she was designated a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University.
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