{"id":173350,"date":"2026-04-22T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:52:06","slug":"university-of-scranton-professors-author-ethics-feature-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173350\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton professors author \u2018Ethics Feature of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas M. Boyle, DBA \u201988, professor and chair of accounting at The University of Scranton, and Daniel P. Haggerty, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Scranton, are two of the three authors of an article that earned this year\u2019s Curt Verschoor Ethics Feature of the Year Award from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).<\/p>\n<p>Their article, \u201cFraud and the Capital Vices: Pride, Envy and Greed,\u201d was published in the IMA\u2019s flagship publication, Strategic Finance. Their article examines how the vices of pride, envy and greed contribute to fraud risk. It also provides organizations with practical strategies to strengthen ethical culture and prevent fraud by addressing these behavioral drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to serving as professor and chair in the Department of Accounting, Dr. Boyle is the director of the University\u2019s Ph.D. program in accounting. A Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, he brings 30-plus years of executive experience, having held positions as CEO, CFO and COO.<\/p>\n<p>He currently serves as board chair for Allied Services Healthcare System and is ranked No. 1 worldwide for publication productivity in top accounting education journals and No. 1 nationally in practice-focused accounting journals. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Scranton, an MBA from Columbia University and a doctorate from Kennesaw State.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond serving as a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Haggerty directs the University\u2019s Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program. Dr. Haggerty\u2019s research focuses on moral psychology, ethics and epistemology, examining how virtue, reasoning and emotions influence decision-making and ethical behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>He has published extensively on classical and contemporary philosophy and has received University awards, including Teacher of the Year \u2014 from Scranton\u2019s graduating class in 2018 and also from Alpha Sigma Nu in 2011 \u2014 and the 2016 Magis Award. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Saint Joseph\u2019s University and a doctorate from Syracuse University.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boyle has authored four Verschoor award-winning articles, while Dr. Haggerty has authored two. The article\u2019s third author, Dana R. Hermanson, Ph.D., is an accounting professor at Kennesaw State University.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Douglas M. Boyle, DBA \u201988, professor and chair of accounting at The University of Scranton, and Daniel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-173350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}