Check out Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Year, an engaging movie with a healthy business ethics kick. The main character is a young college graduate with mediocre grades who lands a job at a computer sales company. He is soon confronted with corrupt-but-usual practices in the company, and his naïveté puts him on the fast […]
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Impressive: “After becoming CEE and chairperson of Alcoa in 1987, Paul O’Neill said, ‘I went to Alcoa with a burning fire … to demonstrate that it is possible for a truly great organization to be values based without any reservations.’ One ethical value that O’Neill championed was workplace safety. When it came to human dignity,
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A watershed event in American business history was the Homestead Riot of 1892. At the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh, union leaders and workers rejected wage cuts proposed by owner Andrew Carnegie and plant manager Henry Frick. Negotiations failed, a strike began, the plant was closed, workers armed themselves, the Pinkertons were called in, and
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My review essay on Donald Frey’s America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics (SUNY Press, 2009). My conclusion: “America’s Economic Moralists is a good historical survey of mostly religious commentaries on economics. Frey’s work is in part a historical survey and in part a polemic against the autonomy individualists. In my judgment,
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If business begins with entrepreneurship, then so should business ethics. Alma Causevic translated into Serbo-Croatian my journal article “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.” The essay was originally published in English [pdf] in the Journal of Private Enterprise and was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in
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I have been fortunate to interview several of CEE’s expert guest speakers over the past year.
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My essay is available at Amazon in Kindle e-book format. It was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network. It has also been translated into Serbo-Croatian translation. Abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however,
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Below is the transcript. Or here in PDF. The lecture is part of the Business Ethics Cases series. The Tragedy of the Commons (transcript) Video lecture by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Transcription by Matheus Pacini. Part 1: What the Tragedy Is [Video clip 1] The Tragedy of the Commons is a foundational case study in business