Jeffrey L. Seglin

Jeffrey L. Seglin (b. 1956 in New York) is an American journalist and writer. Seglin grew up in Boonton, New Jersey. [Seglin, Jeffrey L. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE6D91F30F93BA25752C0A9629C8B63 "THE RIGHT THING; My Principles, or the Milk and Cookies?"] , "The New York Times", January 18, 2004. Accessed November 5, 2007. "GROWING up in Boonton, N.J., I routinely stopped at the supermarket on my way to the local bowling alley to pick up a package of Archway ginger cookies, my favorite snack at the time."]

Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by the "New York Times" Syndicate. In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers who write to him at [e-mail].

Seglin is the author of "The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business". It was named as one of the "Best Business Books of 2003" by the "Library Journal". It is a collection of the first four years of “The Right Thing,” which until January 2004 had been a monthly business ethics column he wrote for "The Sunday New York Times" Money and Business pages since 1998. He is also the author of "The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart" (Wiley, 2000).

Seglin is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2001 and a resident fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard University in 1998-1999.

He lectures widely on ethics, business ethics, and writing including sessions at the Executive MBA Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Duke Corporate Education, Harvard Business School Publishing Virtual Seminars, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other organizations. He was the host of "Doing Well by Doing Good", an hour-long live television program airing out of WCVE-TV, PBS's Richmond, Virginia affiliate.

He is the author or co-author on more than a dozen books on business and writing. He has written for publications including "The New York Times", "Fortune", "FSB", Salon.com, Time.com, "Sojourners", MIT's "Sloan Management Review", "Harvard Management Update", "Business 2.0", "ForbesASAP", "CIO", "CFO", "MBA Jungle", among others. He has contributed commentaries to Public Radio's Marketplace.

Prior to 1998, he was an executive editor at "Inc. magazine". He holds a masters degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School and a bachelor's degree from Bethany College (West Virginia).

Works

* "The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business." Spiro Press, 2003. ISBN-10: 1904298974 ISBN-13: 978-1904298977 Smith-Kerr, 2006. ISBN-10: 0978689909 ISBN-13: 978-0978689902
* "The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart." New York: Wiley, 2000. ISBN-10: 0471347795 ISBN-13: 978-0471347798 Smith-Kerr, 2007.ISBN-10: 0978689933 ISBN-13: 978-0978689933

References

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*New York Times Syndicate: http://nytsyn.com/le_seglin.html
*The Right Thing Blog: http://www.jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com