Amazon Bestseller: Ethics in Finance
Amazon bestseller, Ethics in Finance: Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street (Second Edition) is ranked in multiple categories.
#3 in Business Ethics (Kindle Store)
#23 in Business Ethics (Books)
#31 in Finance (Kindle Store)
Ethics in Finance earned five major awards: winner of the Business Book Awards (UK) 2022, and the Goody Business Book Awards 2022; silver medal winner, Global Book Awards 2022; bronze medal winner, Axiom Business Book Awards 2022; and finalist, International Book Awards (US) 2022.
In the book, Dr. Kara Tan Bhala gives a refreshing, instructive view of global finance. She recounts entertaining stories of an immigrant Asian American woman’s journey through the top echelons of Wall Street, with enduring lessons about ethics from her 30 years of experience across Asian financial markets. Her case studies narrate her experiences, in a humorous, engaging style. Yet, on the ethical problems she highlights, she offers thoughtful analyses and serious solutions.
Readers will benefit from the author’s practical work in finance (on the sell side, buy side, research, and sales), and scholarship philosophy. She synthesizes the two disciplines and serves up poignant and edifying realities.
Perhaps it’s astonishing that one woman faced so many ethics issues in her distinguished career in international finance. Or, perhaps multiple ethics skirmishes are more common than we care to acknowledge. The book testifies to Tan Bhala’s acute observations, assiduous note taking, and knowledge of moral philosophy. If the book moves us towards achieving the author’s stated purpose “to help you [young people], the future, to build a more ethical and socially responsible financial industry,” then society would be better off.
In his review Ethics in Finance, Bill Tammeus, former Kansas City Star columnist, writes:
“The terrific thing about the book is that it’s full of true stories told in engaging ways… In this insider’s look at the world of finance we find a wealthy married man asking a female subordinate to set him up with a prostitute in Asia. We read about how women in a big financial firm were systematically kept out of a special inner sanctum company Christmas party (within the regular company-wide party) just because they were women. We discover whistle-blowers who get fired for bringing unethical business behavior to unwanted light.”
The book will appeal to the general reader, finance practitioners, college and high school students, and lecturers who can use it to supplement courses in finance or business ethics.