My essay, “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo?” is now also posted at the Junior Achievement Brazil site. Also posted in Portuguese here, in the original English as “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], in Serbo-Croatian translation, Spanish translation, and audio edition in MP3 format and YouTube.
My essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” has been translated in Portuguese by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra. Here is “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” in HTML or PDF. Other versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf]. Originally published in Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring
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“O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês em The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2), 2009, 49-57. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014. Resumo O
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In this 21-minute video lecture, Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics, I connect the success traits of entrepreneurs (e.g., initiative, guts, win-win trade, and so on) with moral virtues (e.g., integrity, courage, justice, and so on). My thesis is that what is practical in business and what is moral are tightly integrated — in contrast to the
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In an NBER paper, “Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations,” Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gerard Roland compare the growth gains that individualist ethics generate compared to those of collectivist ethics. The first sentences of their abstract: “We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts
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Entrepreneurial Software The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Zoltan Cendes. We met in Naples, Florida, to discuss Mr. Cendes’s experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. My favorite images from this issue show the uses of Ansoft’s software in improving the air and fluid dynamics for
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In this 20-minute “Unleash Your Inner Company” talk, entrepreneur John Chisholm (San Francisco) discusses: * the values that motivate entrepreneurs; * the mutually-reinforcing traits of passion and perseverance; * finding unique customers needs; * fitting those needs to one’s own uniqueness, strengths, and weakness; * how entrepreneurs are leaders; * his own entrepreneurial experiences; *
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Two data points and a question: 1. This graph showing the dramatic 80% reduction in the world poverty rate over the last 40 years: 2. This Gapminder survey showing that 95% of Americans asked believe that poverty rates have stayed the same or increased: The question: What explains the great discrepancy between reality and belief?
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