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• Ethical dilemma in corporate systems: must a CEO disclose that the company’s stock is significantly overpriced?
• Many CEOs have sold shares of their company’s stock when prices were near their high points.
• The CEOs’ actions were legal.
• The CEOs knew that the stock was significantly overpriced.
• The situation contrasts legal permission with possible ethical responsibility.
• The ethical question is whether the CEO was obligated to tell the public about the overpricing.
• Public disclosure could cause the stock price to plummet.
• A price collapse could hurt someone who bought the stock earlier that day.