This summer I will be teaching an MBA business ethics course at Loyola’s beautiful downtown Chicago Water Tower location. My (updated) syllabus and schedule are available here at my Courses page. Bragging rights for Loyola: Its business ethics program ranked tops by BusinessWeek.
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Following up on my Fórum da Libertade experience, here is a feature in Zero Hora newspaper, with mini-interviews and comments from me, Tom Palmer, Eduardo Marty, and several others. While in Brazil I also interviewed two entrepreneurs for upcoming issues of Kaizen and participated in a conference on Shirley Robin Letwin’s On the History of
The great Rachmaninoff on what the creator needs and what this implies for others: “A creator is a very limited person. Always he revolves around his own axis. There is nothing for him but his own creative work. I agree that the wife has to forget herself, her own personality. She must take upon herself
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Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans My full interview with Jay Lapeyre is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. Lapeyre is the CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with him in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy.
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From Wired magazine’s profile of Reid Hoffman. I like this section where Hoffman says that each one of us needs to “think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me,
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Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans Hurricanes, oil spills, and Louisiana politics — the latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with entrepreneur Jay Lapeyre, CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with Lapeyre in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy. Also
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Check out Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Year, an engaging movie with a healthy business ethics kick. The main character is a young college graduate with mediocre grades who lands a job at a computer sales company. He is soon confronted with corrupt-but-usual practices in the company, and his naïveté puts him on the fast
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In this third Socratic seminar on the Best Arguments against Free-market Capitalism, we take up three arguments: a) the paternalist argument that human beings are incapable of living freely, b) the collectivist argument that wealth is a social creation (at 11 minutes), and c) the religious argument that value is not of this world (at
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