The April 17, 2013 Lab seminar was led by Professor Lisa Cosgrove and Mr. Robert Whitaker, who are both Edmond J. Safra Center Fellows. During this fellowship year they have been collaborating on a project addressing ethical and medico-legal issues that arise in psychiatry because of financial conflicts of interest. Professor Cosgrove began the...

The April 10, 2013 Lab seminar was presented by Christopher Robertson, Associate Professor of Law at The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab affiliate. Conducted in conjunction with Aaron Kesselheim, Dan Durand, and Jim Greiner, Professor Robertson's Lab project explores blinding as a solution to institutional corruption through two projects: a multidisciplinary symposium on the concept of blinding...

The April 3, 2013 Lab seminar was presented by Kim Pernell-Gallagher, PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Harvard University, Canada Program research fellow at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Edmond J Safra Lab Fellow. Kim studies the social causes of financial crisis and financial market regulation. Her previous research examines the organizational processes that drove U.S. banks and investment banks to underwrite...

The March 27, 2013 Lab seminar was led by Marc Rodwin, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, and Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics Lab Fellow. Professor Rodwin is the author of Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France and Japan (Oxford, 2011); and Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest (Oxford, 1993). He has also published articles on diverse facets of health law, policy and ethics including health care...

The March 13, 2013 Lab seminar was presented by Oguzhan Dincer, Associate Professor of Economics at the Illinois State University, and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab Fellow. Professor Dincer's research focuses on how cultural factors such as ethnic and religious diversity affect economic growth and inequality through channels such as corruption and trust and or social capital. His work has appeared in journals including Economics of...

The March 6, 2013 Lab seminar was led by Jay Youngdahl, Senior Fellow in the Initiative for Responsible Investing (IRI) at Harvard's Hauser Center, and Network Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Since 2007, Youngdahl has served as independent Trustee of the Middletown Works Hourly and Salaried Union Health Care Fund (VEBA). Based on his experience as a Trustee and his studies at Harvard, Youngdahl has written a number of pieces on the issue of responsible...

The February 27, 2013 Lab seminar was presented by Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab affiliate. Professor Carpenter discussed his research project, a joint study conducted with Lisa Lehman, Eric Campbell, Steve Joffe, and Lab Fellow Alison Hwong, centered on the future of disclosure and management of conflict-of-interest dynamics in medicine. Specifically, Professor...

The second Lab seminar took place on February 13, 2013 and was led by Paul Jorgensen, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Texas- Pan American, and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics non-residential Fellow. Working with Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis and Baker Library as a residential Fellow in 2011-2012, Professor Jorgensen developed methods for merging campaign finance data with other demographic, political, and economic data. As a non-...

The first Lab seminar of the spring semester convened on February 6, 2013 and was led by Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow, Daniel Newman. Daniel Newman is President and Co-Founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit that reveals money's influence in politics. Newman began his presentation on MapLight's effort to illuminate the influence of money in politics by sharing an example of how the food-processing industry in California, by making $2.3 million in campaign...

The December 5, 2012, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow and financial journalist, Gregg Fields. During his fellowship, Gregg will examine how the growing axis of interdependence between Wall Street and Washington blunts the efficacy of regulatory institutions. For the Lab seminar, Gregg presented a case study examining the implications that financial deregulation, particularly of credit-default swaps, and subprime-lending practices had on the Miami real...

The November 28, 2012, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow and investigative reporter Brooke Williams, who specializes in data-driven journalism and has focused on money and influence in politics. Throughout the course of her fellowship, Williams has spent her time investigating corporate-backed, American think tanks, exposing who is behind them, how they influence public policy, as well as exploring possible solutions. Williams opened the Lab seminar by...

The November 14, 2012, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Jennifer Miller. During her fellowship, Jennifer will explore the possibility of addressing prominent ethical concerns and trust gaps in the pharmaceutical industry through a number of reform strategies, particularly policy amendments and a third party ethics accreditation or rating system.

This will involve first mapping the prominent bioethical concerns challenging the industry. Second,...

The November 7, 2012, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Dr. Maryam Kouchaki. Dr. Kouchaki recently received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in 2012 from the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on the moral dimension of social life, in particular, ethical behavior in the workplace. During her time as a Lab Fellow at the Center for Ethics she will examine the systemic ways in which professional self-conceptions...

The fifth Edmond J. Safra Lab seminar met on October 10, 2012, and was led by Lab Fellow, Professor Yuval Feldman. During his fellowship, Professor Feldman will engage in a number of collaborative experimental projects all related to the implicit and explicit effects of law on ethical decision-making. Notions of compliance, performance, and bounded ethicality permeated the discussion as participants considered specific examples and attempted to discern the role of...

The fifth Edmond J. Safra Lab seminar met on October 10, 2012, and was led by Lab Fellow, Professor Yuval Feldman. During his fellowship, Professor Feldman will engage in a number of collaborative experimental projects all related to the implicit and explicit effects of law on ethical decision-making. Notions of compliance, performance, and bounded ethicality permeated the discussion as participants considered specific examples and attempted to discern the role of...