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The Business Ethics Blog

http://www.businessethics.ca/blog

In case the title isn't clear, this is a blog about business ethics. It is not a discussion forum. I post news & commentary about corporate ethics here. If you believe either
a) that corporations have a god-given right to accumulate as much capital as possible without regard for who gets hurt along the way, or
b) that all corporations, and all people who work for them, are inherently evil, you will probably be irritated by this blog.

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  • Can Ethics Be Taught in Business Schools?

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 23:39

    It's a common refrain. Don't blame the business schools for all the bad stuff happening on Wall Street. It's not the b-schools' fault, because after all, ethics can't be taught. The first bit there is reasonable enough: the recent financial crisis is...

  • Sugar Subsidies, Fraud, and Rationalization

    Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 16:21

    Today in class I taught Joe Heath's wonderful paper, "Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective" (J. Bus Ethics, 2008. 83:4, 595-614). It's a paper that draws on the criminology literature to debunk several 'folk theories' re...

  • Can Life-Saving Decisions Really Be "Tough Calls"?

    Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 12:38

    Big business means big decisions. Tough decisions. In some industries, those decisions affect whether people live or die.Here's a story that gives insight into the thought process that goes into such a decision. From BNET: How I Made the Toughest Cal...

  • Should Consumers Trust Big Pharma?

    Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 15:18

    Lots of people don't trust Big Pharma. And to a significant extent, that's for good reasons. (I've blogged about some of those reasons here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here, just to cite a few examples. See also some of the entries on the...

  • Micro-Philanthropy on Zynga's "Farmville"

    Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 09:16

    Video game developer, Zynga, has just launched an interesting project that stands to bring significant benefit to the poor of Haiti.Zynga's products include the popular "Farmville" application on Facebook (currently listed as having over 53 million a...

  • Barriers to Talking About Doing the Right Thing

    Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 17:46

    This past Wednesday I had the pleasure of giving a talk at an excellent event held by the Conference Board of Canada's Corporate Ethics Management Council.The substance of my talk was not about business ethics per se but about lessons I've learned in...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 2 comments.

Jaybetee

5 stars Jason

Business ethics is not a subject I'd normally gravitate too, but you did a wonderful job of making me interested in issues I'd normally pass over. Great stuff.

Posted: November 2nd, 2009 | More Reviews From Jaybetee | Report This Comment

husdal

5 stars Jan Husdal

I don't know who coined this phrase or whether I am actually reciting it correctly, but the saying is that if you take care of your customers, your customers will take care of you, i.e. your bottom line. For sure, without business ethics, there isn't going to be much bottom line in the long run.

There's a vast reservoir on business ethics on Chris' blog, and most articles are well-commented, too, showing a truly engaging blog. Indeed, the Business Ethics Blog is definitely worth reading, bookmarking, and coming back to.

Posted: October 29th, 2009 | More Reviews From husdal | Report This Comment

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