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This chapter is excerpted from ‘Teaching Anticorruption: Developing a Foundation for Business Integrity'. Over the past few years there has been a surge of interest in discussing how university and business school teaching that focuses particularly on anti-corruption can be developed and become linked to the organizational practices of contemporary businesses. The interest in knowing much more about what exactly constitutes anti-corruption practices and how such practices can become meaningfully integrated in the organizational life of companies that operate in multiple contexts reflects a growing awareness amongst experts, teachers and practitioners of management education of the foundational character of anti-corruption for responsible and sustainable business in today's globalizing world. The movement in management education towards a more serious concern with how corruption can be tackled has occurred in reaction to highly publicized corporate scandals and instances of management misconduct. Widespread scandals have eroded public faith in companies and public authorities as well as fuelled legislative reactions such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank acts in the United States, not to forget the recent UK Bribery Act. Concomitantly, management scholars and educators have begun to question the assumptions underlying traditional management education, which in their view not only contributed to the recent financial and moral crisis but also failed to prepare students and executives for coping with the leadership challenges and ethical dilemmas that face any responsible manager in contemporary corporations. We believe that the statement 'a prepared mind favors ethical behavior' carries some important truth to it and have therefore invited a group of world-class scholars with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives to develop our thinking on how teaching in anti-corruption practices can be conducted today. How to teach anti-corruption in business schools and universities is not an area that has received much scholarly attention so far, and our book is clearly a response to this situation. This book therefore sets out to develop an empirical and theoretical platform for rethinking business school curricula, with a specific view to understanding and meaningfully confronting the challenges of corruption of the second decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, the book will 1) offer examples of new tools, teaching methods and case studies for anti corruption teaching, 2) explore and discuss how particular approaches, such as Giving Voice to Values, may be used worldwide for teaching anticorruption, 3) explore and discuss how curricula can be streamlined and rejuvenated in order to ensure a high level of integrity in the worlds of business.