The following books consider the challenges facing leaders of various fields, from accountants to government officials. Supplementing the expected list of business ethics books, these readings also include: Stanley Milgram’s path-breaking Obedience to Authority, Robert Caro’s biography of New York City master planner Robert Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and Princeton philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit.  

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Accounting Ethics (Fundamentals of Business Ethics)
Ronald F. Duska & Brenda Shay Duska

Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School
Thomas R. Piper

Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in Business (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)
Robert C. Solomon

Ethics in Practice
Kenneth Andrews

Good Intentions Aside: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Ethical Problems
Laura L. Nash

Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
Howard Gardner

How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Rushworth M. Kidder

Integrity
Stephen L. Carter

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Sissela Bok

Obedience to Authority
Stanley Milgram

On Bullshit
Harry Frankfurt

Perspectives in Business Ethics
Laura P. Hartman

Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind