Jeffrey L. Seglin
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| Born | December 26, 1956 Plattsburgh, N.Y. |
| Education | M.T.S., Harvard University (1981), B.A., Bethany College (1978) |
| Occupation | Writer, College Professor |
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Jeffrey L. Seglin (b. 1956 in New York) is an American journalist and writer. Seglin grew up in Boonton, New Jersey[1] and attended Boonton High School.[2]
Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a syndicated weekly column on general ethics that currently runs in newspapers in the United States and Canada. In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers who write to him at rightthing@comcast.net. The column was syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate from February 2004 through August 2010. In September 2010, Tribune Media Services began distributing "The Right Thing" column.
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).
Beginning in 2011, Seglin became a lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government[3] at Harvard University. The communications program resides in the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Seglin was at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts from 1999 until 2011, where he was an associate professor and also director of the graduate program in publishing and writing. He has been an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies since 2001 and was 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 represented by American Talent Group for speaking engagements.
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, Real Simple, 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).
[edit] Works
- The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business. Spiro Press, 2003. ISBN 1904298974 ISBN 978-1904298977 Smith-Kerr, 2006. ISBN 0978689909 ISBN 978-0978689902
- The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart. New York: Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0471347795 ISBN 978-0471347798 Smith-Kerr, 2007.ISBN 0978689933 ISBN 978-0978689933
[edit] References
- ^ Seglin, Jeffrey L. "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."
- ^ Paik, Eugene "Boonton Museum Honors Accomplished Alumni", The Star-Ledger, June 19, 2009. Accessed June 20, 2009. "To Lewis, a former writer for The Jim Henson Company, Boonton's school on Lathrop Avenue appears to have a special knack for churning out fame-bound graduates. In fact, two of his high school friends are featured in the museum's exhibit: Robert Rosner and Jeffrey Seglin."
- ^ Warren, James. "Nuggets of Reform, but Lacking Applause", The New York Times, July 7, 2011. Accessed July 11, 2011. "We’re just dubious about a politician discussing ethics, transparency or other “trust me” issues, as they’re called by Jeff Seglin, a lecturer on public policy and head of the communications program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard."
[edit] Sources
- The Right Thing Blog: http://www.jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com
- Tribune Media page for "The Right Thing": http://www.tmsfeatures.com/columns/advice/the-right-thing/
- Emerson College's graduate program in publishing and writing: http://www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/writing-literature-publishing/graduate-degrees/publishing-writing/meet-graduate-program-director
- Jeffrey Seglin video on business ethics for Harvard Business Publishing: http://www.youtube.com/user/jseglin#grid/user/593C3C7F91AAD969
- Jeffrey Seglin on Fox 25 Morning News: http://www.youtube.com/user/jseglin#grid/user/29E921ED071D191D
- Jeffrey Seglin page on American Talent Group website: http://www.americantalentgroup.com/speaker/jeffrey-l-seglin/
