Michael Strong and Magatte Ward spoke at Rockford College. Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. He is also the author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems. Wade is a serial entrepreneur raised […]
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I’ll be making a trip to Kentucky, the beautiful neighboring state across the Ohio River, to give a talk on “Ethical Entrepreneurship – How to Make Tough Decisions in a Tough World.” My talk is sponsored by Entre Paducah as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010. Time: Monday, November 18, 7 a.m. Place: Carson Center
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On Wednesday, November 3, Michael Strong and Magatte Ward will speak at Rockford College. Michael Strong’s talk is titled “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.” Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a non-profit
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My four-page review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Teaching Philosophy. Here now is a PDF of the review. From my introduction: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics, so this is a mainstream
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A pair of striking excerpts from a discussion at CNN Money between motivational speaker Ken Blanchard and Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western. Here is Scott Shane on whether the government should encourage entrepreneurship or craft policies to divert resources to high-growth companies: “From a societal point of view, if you have a
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Should one be free to drive a taxi in Miami? Apparently not. The city government of Miami controls the number of taxi cabs and, as of 2002, had decided that only 1,856 taxi licenses shall exist. When a license becomes available, it is sold via lottery. But to participate in the lottery one must pay
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This is a very good book: Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. I found it an exciting read, in part because I teach business ethics and philosophy of economics and I’m used to being immersed in the mainstream perspective, much of which
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For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized India’s economic life, yet India has transformed itself and prospects for its 1.1 billion people have improved dramatically. Economics professor Nimish Adhia recently spoke at Rockford College on how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for India’s economic liberalization to
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