Summary: In this podcast, Joan Brown Campbell – the Institution’s Director of the Department of Religion – interviews two experienced business professionals, George Murphy and Bethany McLean. Murphy serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Chautauqua. Murphy, who says he enjoys the competitive nature of business, has worked for GE, Coca-Cola and DaimlerChrysler. McLean is an editor at Vanity Fair and the author of “All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis.” She became a business journalist after majoring in math and English in college. Campbell asks Murphy and McLean about their views on cheating, the theme of the Institution’s Week Seven in 2012. “It’s getting an unfair advantage,” says Murphy. “It’s more prevalent in human nature than we may think.” “It’s trying to get an advantage that happens in secret. Cheating is what happens behind closed doors,” says McLean, adding that cheating only becomes apparent after-the-fact in the business world. McLean then discusses the experiences she had in helping to expose the Enron scandal, giving her opinions on whistleblowers. Campbell provides her thoughts on cheating from a religious perspective. The podcast concludes with their views on whether or not cheating is ever right and how exactly a person becomes a cheater.
