Business Ethics – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Experimental cancer drugs: Laetrile [Business Ethics Cases series]

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My video lecture on the experimental cancer drug Laetrile, part of the Classic Business Ethics Cases series. Contents:1. Context and defining the issue.2. The argument for legalizing Laetrile.3. The argument for banning Laetrile.4. Comparing the arguments for and against Laetrile. Supplements: * Tom Beauchamp, “Manufacture and Regulation of Laetrile” [pdf]. * Summary of context: Identifying […]

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Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Year

2 Comments / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship / Stephen Hicks

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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Workplace safety: Alcoa example

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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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Two nineteenth-century riots

2 Comments / Business Ethics, Literature / Stephen Hicks

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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Frey’s America’s Economic Moralists — review

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

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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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CEE video interviews: Noel, Thompson, Horwitz, Sandefur, and others

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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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Kindle and audio versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

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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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