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- Signing Off on Ethics
- The thing about writing an ethics blog is that I can't tell people what's right and what's wrong. They made up their minds about that long ago. The gray area is that people have their own, very different definitions, of what is wrong. So the best thing I can do...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Lessons of an Ethics Writer
- A year-and-a-half ago, when I was asked to write this ethics blog, I wrote out a short introductory post. So today, my last day writing this blog, I took a quick look at it. Everything you need to survive in today’s business world you probably learned in...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Bad References a Good Thing?
- Way back in 1984, an insurance salesman was awarded $1.9 million by a Texas court in a defamation suit because his employer, Frank B. Hall and Company, was asked for a reference and, perhaps too candidly, rated the salesman "a zero." Thus began the era of reference...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- The World's Most Ethical Companies
- What does it mean to be named to Ethisphere's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies? Well, it's been a week since the list was announced, and those companies who were honored followed through on a topic I discussed in a recent post -- they sold their ethics. They're doing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Act With Ethical Integrity and the Profits Will Follow
- The Institute of Business Ethics, a British advocacy group, recently found that companies who displayed what they call a "clear commitment to ethical conduct" routinely outperform those companies that do not. This is great news; it is deep news; it is, to me at least, not surprising news. I always...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Puzzle-Solving Interviews: A Brain-Discrimination Problem
- Many companies from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are now using puzzles and riddles in interviews as a way to gauge the problem-solving abilities of potential candidates. I thought I liked this approach, mostly because I love puzzles and because it seems to be replacing flawed personality tests. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Market Your Ethics
- Ethics has never been more important in business because people have never been more conscious of the ethics involved in the companies they buy from, invest in, or do business with. From socially-conscious investing, to assessing the environmental impact of goods and services, to the political bent...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Scott McClellan and Business Ethics
- Stephen Goldman, a law professor at Catholic University of America, has just come out with a book called "Temptations in the Office: Ethical Choices and Legal Obligations." Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, has a new book of his own, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Student Loan Business: An Ethical Dilemma in the Credit Crunch
- The student loan business is going through a credit crisis, and some of the nation's largest lenders are responding with a new business model that may be sound business but is ethically questionable. Students at the top-tier schools are being taken care of, but those at the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The Ethical Mind: A Challenge in Business?
- Is it more difficult for businesspeople to adhere to an ethical mind than for those in other professions? That's what a Harvard professor thinks, because he says it lacks the structure of other professions (he makes the point that it is not, strictly, a profession) and the only goal is...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Is the National Association of Realtors Trying to Monopolize the Industry?
- The National Association of Realtors reached a settlement with the Justice Department yesterday to offer discount brokers who offer cut-rate commissions -- particularly those working on the Internet -- access to the multiple listings services that are the backbone of the industry for traditional brokers. The suit charged that...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Deutsche Telekom, Einstein and Ethical Stupidity
- The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein This is the first thing that popped into my head when I read about Deutsche Telekom, the German phone giant, getting itself embroiled in a scandal for...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Societe Generale's Fraudster Says He's a Scapegoat
- Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader at France's Societe Generale who manipulated the company's computer system to enter large unauthorized bets under someone else's name that led to $7.7 billion in losses -- the biggest financial fraud in history -- is claiming he's being made into a scapegoat for the company's...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Whistleblowers Can Reap Rewards
- Craig Patrick was a regional reimbursement manager at Kyphon, a company that sold a kit for surgery to treat spinal compression factors. In 2005, he attended a Medicare fraud conference and recognized that Kyphon had been up to no good -- they were telling doctors to bill for a more...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Whole Foods Chief Defends His Ethics
- John Mackey had a bad 2007, but he's bouncing back in 2008 and the Whole Foods chief is finally talking about "rahodeb," the Internet alter-ego he used to leave scathing chatroom remarks about competitor Wild Oats just as he was angling to buy them. I imagine Mackey has been itching...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Ethics Without Consequences
- "The measure of a man's character is defined by what he will do when he knows he will not be held accountable for his actions." It tough to say anything about this quote, really. It's quite perfect. Ethics doesn't end at the line of enforcement. Just because...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Ethics on a Deadline: Poll
- Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of "Saturday Night Live," likes to say that the show doesn't go on because it's ready. It goes on because it's 11:30. Yesterday, I blogged about how ethics is often just a willingness to say no. But does that change on a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- The Ethics of Saying No
- Corporations do not make ethical mistakes. Individuals make ethical mistakes. Most of the time, that's because they're afraid of saying no. The reason so many people find it hard to say no is that it is hard to say no. A client says something inappropriate; a co-worker...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- GM's Lender/Borrower Double Standard?
- Are the folks at General Motors guilty of a double-standard, or hypocrisy, or possibly even an ethical breach, for the very different ways it's behaving as a lender and a borrower in the mortgage mess? They're at least guilty of not doing unto others as they would have done...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Such Is The Importance of Ethics
- When we're talking about establishing an ethical business culture, the small things matter. Yet, too often, we let the small things slide, we turn the other way, we don't make it our business. Here's a comment from a reader that addresses how the small things -- the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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