How would you judge this case? A woman is away on a business trip. During the trip, she has consensual sex with a male partner at a motel. The motel room was paid for by her employer. But during sex a light fixture is broken off a wall and lands on her face, causing injuries. […]
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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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Below is the text of an open letter published in The Huffington Post on September 19, 2012 by Thor Halvorssen, Founder of the Human Rights Foundation. The letter is useful for Business Ethics courses in discussions of marketing and advertising using popular political figures, especially political figures with a record like Guevara’s. An Open Letter
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I contributed the “Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter to editor Christoph Luetge’s Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (Springer Science+Business Media, 2013). Abstract: Much of the current business ethics literature takes corporations and social responsibility as its key operative concepts. Meanwhile, much of the business and economics literature is moving to seeing entrepreneurship as
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From his Playboy interview in 1985: “We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We
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From a book within a book:
“He said that architecture was truly the greatest of the arts, because it was anonymous, as all greatness. …
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Troubles mounting in Argentina due to a government plagued by corruption scandals and heavy-handed, dysfunctional economic intervention and controls.
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… on the market is Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux’s The Ethics of Business: A Concise Introduction, published late in 2011. I read the book in manuscript, happily provided a blurb, and used it as a textbook in my business ethics course this summer, so count me a satisfied customer. The book’s strengths: 1. Its
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