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International Herald Tribune
Claudia Parsons (Reuters)
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NEW YORK: Most major U.S. companies have an ethics officer, but as investors survey the wreckage of a deepening financial crisis that has exposed behavior ranging from risky to downright illegal, one might ask, “What were they doing?”

From Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, to the subprime mortgage crisis, to lavish spending on the chief executive’s office at Merrill Lynch, the past year has seen a crisis of confidence in business that cost investors $6.9 trillion in U.S. stock market value last year.

“The rising market covered a lot of sins, and a falling market exposes one’s nakedness,” said Steve Priest, president of Ethical Leadership Group, a consulting firm that has worked with 50 of the biggest U.S. companies and firms in 40 other countries. “Investors don’t trust the companies they’re investing in. They don’t trust the financial statements, they don’t trust the audits, they don’t trust the bond rating agencies.”

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Barry Meier
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There is little question that battles over how much companies, doctors and medical institutions disclose about their financial ties will continue. But some experts on medical conflicts of interest, seeing the rapid fall of resistance by most major companies, say that a turning point has arrived.

“We are definitely moving toward more disclosure and disclosure of information that is useful to people,” said Lisa Bero, a pharmacy professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

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