On Jan 14th, we’ll be joined by Dr. Guido Palazzo and Dr. Ulrich Hoffrage to discuss The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals. Why do individuals and entire organizations fall over the moral cliff? How can we avoid falling into ethical blindness? The Dark Pattern challenges the conventional view that corporate misconduct happens because of a handful of bad actors. We’ll discuss how our organizational contents can be stronger than reason and values by distorting our very perception of reality to no longer see ethical and legal dimensions of our decisions. They’ll share toxic elements that form the dark pattern of corporate scandals, and offer lessons for building morally resilient organizations.
Guido Palazzo & Ulrich Hoffrage
Dr. Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at HEC, University of Lausanne and a business adviser in Switzerland. He is mainly known for his studies in globalization, in particular on human rights violations in global value chains, but he also studies the reasons for unethical behaviour in organization and the impact of organized crime on business and society. Dr. Palazzo has trained leadership teams of global corporations and directed a sustainability program for Chinese Vice Ministers.
Dr. Ulrich Hoffrage is Professor of Decision Theory in the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne. He is a highly cited psychologist who builds and tests models of bounded rationality to better understand how people decide and navigate in a social world characterized by risk and uncertainty.
Their popular MOOC, Unethical Decision Making in Organizations, has attracted over 40,000 participants worldwide.
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