Center fellow Matthew Phillips traveled this week to the corporate headquarters of Ernst & Young to meet with EY’s Americas Ethics and Compliance Officer this week. Prof. Phillips and Jeffrey Hoops, a partner at EY, talked about the firm’s ethics training and efforts to form professional identity. They talked about case studies and the challenges of creating engaging presentations and opportunities for dialogue across EY’s Americas enterprise.
Prof. Phillips is particularly interested in the ways that the benefits of the classroom, in which professors have focused time with students, can be merged with the benefits of the workplace, where employees feel an intensity and realism to the business ethics lessons they are discussing.
This and other market-based research will help make Wake Forest’s programs in professional identity and business ethics stronger and more relevant to the marketplace our students are preparing to enter.