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Entries Tagged as 'Business Ethics'

Guest Post: Upsides of Being Ethical: Why Good Guys and Girls Don’t Always Finish Last

July 20th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics

By Alexis Bonari [Editor's note: Yes, this is fairly elementary—but it's nice to be reminded of the basics once in a while. If this topic interests you and you want more depth, I recommend Stephen M.R. Covey's Speed of Trust as well as my own Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits [...]

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Does Being Green Require Being Good?

June 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers

What about a tougher case? Suppose someone has been involved with the sustainability initiatives over at BP (a company that actually at one point was fairly well regarded by mainstream environmentalists)? Some kind of arbitration system will be needed to determine who qualifies and who does not. Any ideas for how to set that up?

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A Hidden Cost of Crappy Business Ethics

May 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Business Ethics

Yesterday’s edition of Christopher Baauer’s Weekly Ethics Thought newsletter bore a startling statistic: 43.8% of the surveyed companies said they would not refer uncovered fraud to law enforcement due to fears of bad publicity. Wow! So these companies are potentially throwing away millions of dollars because they’re too ashamed of the bad press they’d receive. [...]

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So, Bernie Madoff–Was It Worth It? (Open Letter)

March 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Business Ethics

An open letter to Bernie Madoff (how appropriate, that last name!) Dear Mr. Made-off Was it worth it? $50 billion in your pocket–but the rest of your life in jail and your name disgraced forever? Was it worth it to have kicked the legs out from under some of the worthiest charities in the country, [...]

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