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Terry Noel on management and entrepreneurship

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Illinois State University professor Terry Noel’s 24-minute video lecture on “Management and Entrepreneurship.” Dr. Noel discusses the elements of management — planning, organizing, leading, controlling — including examples from Moses, Chinese warfare, Adam Smith, Eli Whitney, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Frederick Taylor, Michael Taylor and Jay Barney — and management’s connection to entrepreneurship, with discussion […]

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Conclusion: abstracting the principles [Business Ethics Cases series]

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My concluding video lecture on abstracting the principles in the business ethics cases we’ve covered so far: Minimum Wages, Rent Control, the Tragedy of the Commons, Laetrile (pharmaceuticals), and the F.C.C.’s “Fairness Doctrine” (telecomm). This lecture is part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Contents: Summary abstraction: comparing the cases. Supplement: Summary chart. Go to

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Upcoming talk in Stockholm

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From May 23-25, I’ll be participating in a colloquium on “Virtues and Entrepreneurship,” organized by Sweden’s Ratio Institute. My talk will be an extension of the theme of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” arguing that the success traits of entrepreneurship map onto an updated Aristotelian virtue set. The conference will include keynote

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Entrepreneurship and Values

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A series of short lectures by entrepreneurs and professors of business, economics, and ethics on the meaning and significance of entrepreneurship. Produced by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. What Is Entrepreneurship? In this lecture on “Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept,” Professor Alexei Marcoux (Loyola University Chicago) compares and contrasts three major conceptions of

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Tragedy of the Commons [Business Ethics Cases series]

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My video lecture, part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Contents: 1. What the tragedy is. 2. The free-market solution. 3. The socialist solution. 4. Comparing the two solutions. The entire video (43 minutes total): Supplements: * Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”, Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. * Transcript of the above video lecture

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Introduction: Case Study Method [Business Ethics Cases series]

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An introduction to applied case study methodology, part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Total time: 17 minutes. Next: Rent Control. Minimum Wages [forthcoming]. The Tragedy of the Commons [forthcoming]. Go to the Business Ethics Cases series. Or full playlists at YouTube. Go to the Philosophy of Education lecture series. Go to the StephenHicks.org main

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Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism

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I’m happy to announce the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. We’re releasing one chapter a week here and at YouTube. Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his editing and production work. To begin, here is the first chapter. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The

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Business Ethics Cases — introducing my new series

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The Business Ethics Cases project is new for 2013. The initial series contains cases on Rent Control, Minimum Wages, The Tragedy of the Commons, Laetrile and Experimental Cancer Drugs, and the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine,” as well as a short introductory lecture on case study method and a concluding lecture abstracting the common patterns of argument

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