Business Ethics

Introduction: Case Study Method [Business Ethics Cases series]

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An introduction to applied case study methodology, part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Total time: 17 minutes. Next: Rent Control. Minimum Wages [forthcoming]. The Tragedy of the Commons [forthcoming]. Go to the Business Ethics Cases series. Or full playlists at YouTube. Go to the Philosophy of Education lecture series. Go to the StephenHicks.org main […]

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Business Ethics Cases — introducing my new series

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The Business Ethics Cases project is new for 2013. The initial series contains cases on Rent Control, Minimum Wages, The Tragedy of the Commons, Laetrile and Experimental Cancer Drugs, and the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine,” as well as a short introductory lecture on case study method and a concluding lecture abstracting the common patterns of argument

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Television interview by David Hutzelman in Houston

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I was interviewed by David Hutzelman on a variety of topics: entrepreneurial ethics, why business ethics should focus on the positive more than the negative, our cultural progress in developing institutions of trust and becoming comfortable with non-traditional social relationships. Here’s Part I of the interview: Update: The full interview is now available. In the

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Springer’s Handbook of Business Ethics now online

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Springer’s massive 1,581-page Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics is now online. The multi-volume work covers business ethics from almost every conceivable perspective–Aristotelian, Marxist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Kantian, utilitarian, feminist, free market, and more. I contributed the essay entitled “Entrepreneurship and Ethics,” which appears on pages 1239-1246. Cite: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations

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Video lecture: “Public Policy, Objectivism, and Entrepreneurship”

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My talk at the 2012 Atlas Summit in Washington, DC, is now online. My themes: * Our schizophrenic public policy culture: health, sex, religion, money * What wealth is: tangible, intangible, and institutional assets * Entrepreneurism as a cultural asset * Objectivism’s entrepreneurial ethic * Principled strategy in a mixed economy * Three challenges: abstractness,

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Millick’s *The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness*

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I recommend Charles Millick’s The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness. Millick is a business professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he relocated after decades of real-life business experience at General Electric and other blue-chip corporations, as an entrepreneur, and as a management consultant. In this new book, Millick collects and condenses decades of leadership

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