At the CEE site, a collection of five extended interviews (and one forthcoming) with leading entrepreneurs in Latin America covering the business areas of construction, agriculture, logistics, education, aluminum, and oil and gas.
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My essay, “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo?” is now also posted at the Junior Achievement Brazil site. Also posted in Portuguese here, in the original English as “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], in Serbo-Croatian translation, Spanish translation, and audio edition in MP3 format and YouTube.
[The English text is below was also translated into Polish and published in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny.] Educating for Entrepreneurship Stephen R.C. HicksDepartment of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and EntrepreneurshipRockford UniversityRockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators come to the United States to study its
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My essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” has been translated in Portuguese by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra. Here is “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” in HTML or PDF. Other versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf]. Originally published in Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring
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“O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês em The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2), 2009, 49-57. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014. Resumo O
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The one-hour video of my lecture is at the Atlas Society site and at YouTube. The lecture starts at 3:40, after the introduction, and is about 45 minutes long, followed by a question-and-answer session. The sub-topics are: * 13 initial arguments for liberal capitalism. * Some quotations from Mises, Schumpeter, Jouvenel, Smith, Hayek, Mill, Rand,
My Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Zol Cendes on the theme of Entrepreneurial Software is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship site. I met Mr. Cendes in Naples, Florida, to discuss his experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. The interview was originally published in Issue 29 of
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In this 21-minute video lecture, Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics, I connect the success traits of entrepreneurs (e.g., initiative, guts, win-win trade, and so on) with moral virtues (e.g., integrity, courage, justice, and so on). My thesis is that what is practical in business and what is moral are tightly integrated — in contrast to the
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