Daniel Terris first became interested in Lockheed Martin when a colleague entered his office carrying a board game called “The Ethics Challenge,” which involved characters from the popular Dilbert comic strip inserted into various ethical scenarios specific to the defense giant. Terris, who is the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University, investigated and learned that Lockheed had actually gone out and purchased the right to use the Dilbert characters as a way of making ethics more accessible to employees at the company, which had endured a number of ethics scandals in the 1970s and 1980s.
