Business Ethics

Entrepreneurship and Values — seven short lectures

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CEE’s Entrepreneurship and Values series includes seven 15-20-minute lectures on foundational issues in entrepreneurship. 1. What Is Entrepreneurship? 2. Unleash Your Inner Company 3. Management and Entrepreneurship 4. What Makes Entrepreneurs Tick? 5. Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics 6. Entrepreneurship and Liberty 7. Entrepreneurship and Public Policy The lecturers are all entrepreneurs or university professors — […]

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Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur — transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is Professor Terry Noel, who teaches Entrepreneurship and Management at Illinois State, here today at Rockford College speaking on the theme of the virtuous entrepreneur. Interesting title, but your broader context

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The Love Canal Environmental Disaster — Four Decades Later [Good Life series]

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First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated, and suffered large losses of property value. Now

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Video Interview with Professor William Kline — Transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks, executive director of CEE, and with us today is Dr. William Kline, who is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Illinois in Springfield. Professor Kline is a Philosophy professor, primarily

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What’s wrong with China? Robert Garmong to visit Rockford University

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On Friday, February 19, Dr. Robert Garmong will give two lectures at Rockford University on the good and bad in contemporary Chinese business ethics. Is China improving or deteriorating? Should one be bullish or bearish about China — not just economically but in terms of ethical conduct? The first lecture is at 2:00-2:50. The second is at

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Will the real Scrooge please stand up?

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[Re-pinning for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood is a

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