The lecture, “How to Succeed Ethically When Others Bend the Rules: The VW & GM Scandals,” will take place on campus Thursday.

The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Frank Bucaro, the presenter, is the senior ethics adviser and content provider for the Automotive Institute of Ethics.

Bucaro’s lecture “highlights companies like Volkswagen and General Motors as examples of the problems and consequences that can arise when ethical behavior is not defined, understood or demonstrated,” according to the ISU events calendar.