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Fame produces ethical blind spots we must be aware of | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. Fame produces ethical blind spots we must be aware of. Posted November 3, 2014. Canadians were caught off-guard recently when Jian Ghomeshi, the popular host of Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s radio show Q was fired by the public broadcaster. Just a day later, Ghomeshi fired back via Facebook. At the other end of the spectrum, if the worst case scenario is true, then the CBC was faced ...
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advertising | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. Archive for the ‘advertising’ Category. Starbucks’ Race Together stunt is working just not for Starbucks. Posted March 18, 2015. So apparently Starbucks wants to turn tens of thousands of baristas into facilitators for discussions about race. Starbucks CEO Howard Schutlz recently announced. Not surprisingly, the plan has been thoroughly mocked online. But from a social point of view, it...
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CSR | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. Archive for the ‘CSR’ Category. Starbucks’ Race Together stunt is working just not for Starbucks. Posted March 18, 2015. So apparently Starbucks wants to turn tens of thousands of baristas into facilitators for discussions about race. Starbucks CEO Howard Schutlz recently announced. Not surprisingly, the plan has been thoroughly mocked online. But from a social point of view, it’s...
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The Downside, and the Upside, of the Underground Economy | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. The Downside, and the Upside, of the Underground Economy. Posted May 4, 2015. Statistics Canada has just released this report on The underground economy in Canada, 2012. Mdash; essentially an attempt to gauge the extent of “market-based economic activities, whether legal or illegal, that escape measurement because of their hidden, illegal or informal nature”. Ethically this is not good&...
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BusinessEthics.ca -- Business Ethics Case Studies
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The Canadian resource for Business Ethics! Http:/ www.businessethics.ca/. Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Business Ethics Case Studies from the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. Case Studies from the e-Center for Business Ethics. A wide range of business cases, including many related to ethics:. European Case Clearing House. From Santa Clara University. Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics. From the Tepper School of Business. Individual Cases and Mini-Cases:. The Business Ethics Blog.
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Business Ethics Highlights | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. In addition to writing this blog, I also co-curate an online resource called B. Which brings you top news stories related to business ethics, along with brief commentary (and with an opportunity to comment). For scholarly readers: I’m also the co-founder and co-editor of the B. Check out our website, here. Are both published by the nonprofit Journal Review Foundation. Chris has three ti...
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Why Gravity Payments’ $70,000 minimum salary, sadly, won’t catch on | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. Why Gravity Payments’ $70,000 minimum salary, sadly, won’t catch on. Posted April 16, 2015. What are we to think when a CEO slashes his own salary by 93%, and then uses the money — along with a big chunk of corporate profits — to ensure that every. One of his employees makes a minimum. Of $70,000 per year? That’s what Dan Price, founder and co-owner of Gravity Payments is doing. 4) As a...
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Dissertation on Emergency Plumbing | Normative Signs: The Poetry of "Ought"
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Normative Signs: The Poetry of Ought. In which the author finds beauty in how people tell other people what to do. Dissertation on Emergency Plumbing. This rather thorough how-to, aimed at amateur plumbers apparently, is posted in the men’s room at the Faculty Club at Harvard. Thanks to Jacob Levy for the photo. May 28, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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From Oxycontin to Fast Food: The Ethics of Selling Not-Too-Much | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. From Oxycontin to Fast Food: The Ethics of Selling Not-Too-Much. Posted March 4, 2015. Business is about sales. From a business point of view, your mission is to make a product that people want, and to sell a lot of it. The drive to sell a lot is what motivates cleverness in product design, efficiency in production, and consumer-friendly low prices. After all, that’s their function.
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Consumer Savvy: Must Customers Understand Your Business Model? | The Business Ethics Blog
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The Business Ethics Blog. A blog about Business Ethics by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Subscribe to the Business Ethics Blog. Consumer Savvy: Must Customers Understand Your Business Model? Posted January 13, 2012. I’ll put this on the table as a fundamental ethical principle for commerce:. If your business model relies upon customers not understanding your business model, your business model is not an ethical one. Here are a few current headlines about companies that seem to violate this principle:. Understand...
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