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- a system of moral principles applied in the commercial world. Business ethics provide guidelines for acceptable behavior by organizations in both their strategy formulation and day-to-day operations. An ethical approach...
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- How to Teach Business Ethics, Unethically
- If business ethics can be taught - and I have yet to read a convincing argument that they cannot - how should such an important lesson be taught? In business school, perhaps? That would seem to make a whole lot of sense. Business schools seem to be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- No revised lesson plan at b-schools; Back of the class: ethics after Enron.(News)(business schools)
- Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN It's fodder for a case study in any business ethics course: self-dealing, questionable bookkeeping, conflicts of interest and a corporate culture that exalted profit and pay above all other values. While the Enron-Andersen Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- Can You Teach Ethics to MBAs?
- Maybe, but research suggests they need a lot of practice. Take our quiz and see how your moral compass measures up. In the spring of 2009, when Bernie Madoff?s massive scam still felt raw and shocking, a few members of Harvard B-School?s...
- Articles 2009-10-19
- Deep Links: Business School Students' Perceptions Of The Role Of Law And Ethics In Business
- To better understand how business school students view the relationship between law and business, we used the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique ZMET to elicit the unconscious thoughts and feelings of twelve students about the role of law in starting and running a business in the United States. Our study revealed...
- White papers 2006-06-07
- Integration May Be Key to Fixing B-Schools, Says Heineman
- The idea that business schools need fixing has gained a near consensus post-economic crisis, but exactly how to fix them has been a matter of much debate. I recently spoke about the issue with Ben Heineman, Jr., a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
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- Using Great Literature to Teach Business Ethics
- Using Great Literature to Teach Business EthicsUsing Great Literature to Teach Business EthicsEvery school should incorporate Business Ethics as its core curriculum. Every course should have intertwined within its network of books, scenarios, simulations, some facet of ethical training. It is not enough to provide a class specifically designed to...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
- Business Ethics Integral to Corporate Strategy, says Stanford's Malhotra
- Professor Neil Malhotra of the Stanford GSB focuses on business ethics and non-market strategy. Last week, we discussed the increased emphasis on ethics training within Stanford's curriculum. Today, we'll talk about what kind of approaches will be most effective in driving home the importance of ethics...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Ethics of Beauty: L'Oreal Funds Business Ethics Program
- L'Oreal is sponsoring a new master's degree program in "law and business ethics" at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France, according to a recent posting in EthicsWorld. According the the post, the international cosmetics giant has developed the new graduate degree course in association with France's ESSEC...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Confucian Business Ethics and the Economy
- Confucian ethics as applied to the study of business ethics often relate to the micro consideration of personal ethics and the character of a virtuous person. Actually, Confucius and his school have much to say about the morals of the public administration and the market institutions in a more macro...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- B-School Buzz: Business Ethics, Curriculum Changes at Chicago Booth and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence 'Business ethics'...oxymoronic or no? -- R. Edward Freeman, director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at Virginia’s Darden School of Business, had a lot to say about the state of business ethics today in Emily Badger's recent piece for...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Issues of ethics. (London Business School professor of ethics Jack Mahoney)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 Jack Mahoney MAY BE THE MOST remarkable feature of London Business School's optional course in business ethics. He's a Jesuit priest, doctor of theology, and Britain's only full-time professor of business ethics. A sampling of his ethical 00-00-0000 Jack Mahoney MAY BE...
- Research articles 1995-10-02
- Are Businesses Serious About Ethics?
- Companies seem to be jumping over themselves to adopt business ethics and policies. But the way some companies implement them, one wonders if they're designed to actually affect change or just to improve P.R. In the current Business Week, Pallavi Gogoi looks at the plight of whistleblowers,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Cornell Tackles Ethics and Corporate Culture
- Corporate scandals crop up in the news at such a pace these days it seems the breakdown in ethical behavior has permeated every rung of the corporate ladder. With mounting pressure from the current economic landscape, business people and lawyers may find the line denoting ethical behavior increasingly difficult to...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, University of Chicago to Co-Sponsor Event on the Financial Impact of Ethics and Compliance Programs
- WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association ECOA, in conjunction with the University of Chicago Graduate Business School and in collaboration with the Harvard University's School of Public Health, will convene a meeting of corporate stakeholders to kick off a research project on the financial value of corporate...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Ethics & Compliance Officer Association and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Agree to Undertake a Ground Breaking Research Project on the Economic Effects of Corporate Compliance, Ethics and Social Responsibility Initiatives
- WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Ethics and Compliance Officer Association ECOA is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement in principle, subject to receipt of appropriate funding, with the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business GSB to undertake a ground breaking research project. GSB plans to conduct a...
- Research articles 2007-08-27
- Schools for scandal. (courses on business ethics at universities)
- IS BUSINESS ethics a real subject? To judge by the increasing interest in the fledgling discipline it is. Harvard Business School is still deliberating what to do with its $20m gift for teaching ethics from Mr John Shad, a former chairman of America's Securities and Exchange...
- Research articles 1988-01-09
- Supply Chain Ethics
- It's easy to think "business ethics" and think "simple." After all, the only rule you'll ever need is the golden one, just like in grade school and everywhere else, right? Well, sure. But in the highly complex world of commerce that we now inhabit there is a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- People: Ex-Abbott exec maps course to boost Loyola's biz school.(People)
- Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN Robert L. Parkinson Jr., a longtime Abbott Laboratories executive recently named to head Loyola University Chicago's business school, aims to use his business contacts and the school's reputation for instilling strong ethics Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN ...
- Research articles 2002-12-02
- Business Ethics: Pay the Bribe?
- Business Ethics: Pay the Bribe?Americans abroadAnother discussion this can bring about is what sorts of protection/guarantees American citizens and companies have if they are doing business abroad (specifically here, China), and run into trouble for avoiding bribing officials.One Stanford Business School alum (MBA '93), Jude Shao, is serving a 16-year...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- ADVISORY/Business Ethics Expert to Lecture At NSU
- --BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 9, 1998-- -0- WHAT: Richard Langhorn, founder and president of the Langhorn Company, will speak about "Business Ethics" as part of Nova Southeastern University's...
- Research articles 1998-10-09
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