The Neely Center Newsletter

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Welcome to the latest newsletter from the USC Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making jointly housed in the Marshall School of Business, Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Viterbi School of Engineering.

The Neely's Center's 2019 student ethics competition is now open to all USC Students. Submissions are invited in all areas of ethics and decision making. Please submit "intent to participate" before September 30 by e-mail to decide@usc.edu. Finalists will present at the 2019 Neely Center Annual Conference. Winners will be awarded cash prizes and notable recognition by industry leaders.

For information on last year's competition, click here.

Winners of last year's student competition

Save the date, Friday April 26, 2019 for the Neely Center's Annual Conference

"Ethics: Where Do We Stand , "

This is a unique opportunity to join leading academic, public policy, and industry pioneers, as they discuss important ethical dilemmas that we all face today or will face in the near future.

This year's organizing committee comprises:

To view last year's speakers, please click here .

TSA Decisions and Ethics

Neely Center Director, Ali Abbas, met with Ken Fletcher, former Chief Risk Officer of the Transportation Security A dministration ( TSA ) and one of the pioneers of the "TSA Pre" program to discuss Decision and Ethics related to the TSA.

Watch the interview here.

In joint effort, the Neely Center and the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted a six-day Summer School program in June 2018 that introduced graduate students around the country to the foundations of decision making and ethics in large systems.

The array of speakers included lecturers from USC, the National Science Foundation, and other Universities

For more information, and to see the list of speakers, here

The Neely Center book

"Next Generation Ethics"

will be published by Cambridge University Press. For a list of authors and updates on the book release, click here.

When Film Makers' Legacies Intertwine with

#MeToo Movement

Neely Center Fellow, Ted Braun, a documentary filmmaker and professor of cinematic ethics at USC, comments on the MeToo movement, as some of Hollywood's biggest names are tarnished by charges of sexual misconduct.

Please read the article, here, a s featured in CBS, Sunday Morning .

Neely Center Director Ali Abbas Discusses Driverless Cars With USC News

We may continue to wait for those flying cars promised in science fiction, but who needs them when the car can drive itself?

Congress is trying to fast-track legislation that speeds the removal of federal regulatory hurdles for driverless cars. The California Department of Motor Vehicles recently revised its own regulations to allow for the testing of almost entirely autonomous vehicles on California’s streets starting in June.