Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Alexei Marcoux to speak at Rockford College

Professor Alexei Marcoux will be visiting from Loyola University Chicago, where is a professor of business ethics, to speak on moral partiality in business. Time and location information for his talk are in the enlargeable poster image.

Alexei Marcoux is co-author wth Al Gini of a widely-used textbook in the field, Case Studies in Business Ethics, now in its sixth edition. Also notable is his fine article entitled “Retrieving Business Ethics from Political Philosophy” in the Journal of Private Enterprise.

In 2009 BusinessWeek magazine ranked Loyola University Chicago’s Business Ethics program Number One in the Country.

Serbo-Croatian translation of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

Alma Causevic has produced a Serbo-Croatian translation of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.”

The essay was originally published in English [pdf] in the Spring 2009 Journal of Private Enterprise and was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network. Here is SSRN’s link to my paper.

Bragging rights for Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago

Last year BusinessWeek magazine ranked Loyola University Chicago’s Business Ethics program Number One in the Country.

So it is an honor to be part of the team as an adjunct professor this summer teaching the MBA course in Business Ethics (and to be able to enjoy LUC’s dynamic Water Tower location in beautiful downtown Chicago).

LUC’s prominence is due to its faculty, whom I know mostly through their publications:

Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux are joint authors of widely-used textbook in the field, Case Studies in Business Ethics, now in its sixth edition.

John Boatright is author of another prominent text, Ethics and the Conduct of Business, also in its sixth edition.

Professor Marcoux also published a fine article entitled “Retrieving Business Ethics from Political Philosophy” in the Journal of Private Enterprise last year, the same issue in which my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] came out.

What business ethics can learn from entrepreneurship

My essay on “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] was published in the Spring 2009 issue of the Journal of Private Enterprise, edited by Edward Peter Stringham.

The article is a relatively brief nine pages. The abstract:

“Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as an ethical phenomenon. Much contemporary business ethics assumes its core application purposes to be (1) to stop predatory business practices and (2) to encourage philanthropy and charity by business. Certainly predation is immoral and charity has a place in ethics, but neither should be the first concerns of ethics. Instead, business ethics should make fundamental the values and virtues of entrepreneurs—i.e., those self-responsible and productive individuals who create value and trade with others to win-win advantage.”