Tom Tropp, Vice-president for Ethics and Culture at the Arthur J. Gallagher Corporation is a guest speaker in my business ethics class today. Gallagher is a $5.6 billion company with almost 25,000 employees worldwide. Gallagher was named a most ethical company for the fifth time, in large part due to Mr. Tropp’s work. Mr. Tropp’s […]
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[Here is a transcript of our eleven-minute video interview.] Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Interview with Professor Al Gini on Leadership Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks of CEE. Today we have with us Professor Al Gini from Loyola University Chicago, where he is chair of the management department and where he teaches business ethics. He is also
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I’ll be part of an APEE panel on [2.G.8] Business Ethics Education on Monday, April 10, 2017, from 3:50 – 5:05 pm. Matthew Brown (University of Illinois-Springfield) will be the moderator and the other panelists will be Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland, College Park), María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual). John A. Parnell (The
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My article on the justice or injustice of profits — “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene” will be out in Spanish translation next month. The article takes up the classic issue in business ethics of that status of profits, and my argument with examples explains profit in terms of the underlying concepts of cause and effect
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Six years ago, I snarkily conjectured that the egailtarians would go after libraries on the grounds that most of their content was inaccessible to the deaf and blind. That was meant to be a reductio ad absurdum. But now the Department of Justice has gone after UC Berkeley’s online library for precisely that reason. The
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Here is a list of the 30 most polluted cities on Earth. Per country, here’s where those cities are located: India: 14 China: 6 Saudi Arabia: 3 Pakistan: 2 Iran: 2 Bangladesh: 1 Cameroon: 1 Uganda: 1 All of them are clustered in the bottom half of rankings for economic freedom. Which reminds me of
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I am quite the international trader, it turns out. Earlier today I put on my made-in-Argentina jacket and my new made-in-India shoes and got into my made-in-Japan truck. I stopped for gas at a British petroleum station and chatted with its owner, a guy from Mexico. To help pay for it all, I taught my
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Recently, I met a young man in Miami. Instead of taking a taxi I decided to try Uber for the first time. Rafael (not his real name) showed up a few minutes later. Traffic was bad in rush-hour Miami, and along the way we started chatting. He was a Cuban, I learned, and until recently
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