The Ethisphere Institute unveiled its “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics,” an annual list of individuals who have made a significant impact in the realm of corporate citizenship over the course of the previous year. Some are world famous and some are little unknown. Here are some that caught my attention: #48 Stephen Colbert [...]
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Ethisphere and the New York Stock Exchange
This morning, the Ethisphere Institute is ringing The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange with some of the NYSE-listed 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies. I guess the NASDAQ companies are not invited.) The purpose is to recognize the connection between ethical business practice and increased business performance. NYSE-listed 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies [...]
The Echoes of Madoff at the SEC
The Madoff scandal is one of the low points in the history of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Every Congressional hearing or SEC-basher inevitably uses the failure to catch Madoff as evidence of the ineffectiveness of the SEC. In a continuing journey down the rabbit hole, the SEC’s Inspector General David Kotz released his 123-page [...]
What Does a Criminal Look Like?
A group of Kentucky men would prefer to spend time in jail time rather comply with vehicle safety rules. As you can see from their booking photos, the men are Amish and belong to the Old Order Swartzentruber Amish group. They say their religious beliefs forbid the placement of bright orange safety triangles on the [...]
Remind People to Do the Right Thing
Dan Ariely continues to find small, easy ways to change behavior. This time it was his students running the experiment instead of him. Two students sent an email to everyone in the class that included a link to a website that was supposed to contain the answers to a past year’s final exam. In half [...]
Should You Invest in the World’s Most Ethical Companies 2011 Edition
The Ethisphere Institute announced its fifth annual selection of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, highlighting 110 organizations that lead the way in promoting ethical business standards. Of the 110 companies honored this year, 74were on the 2010 list. (If you need help with the math, 36 are new to the list in 2011 and 26 [...]
A Criminological Perspective on Business Ethics
White-collar crime has a strong influence on business ethics. Joseph Heath uses a criminological perspective to help illuminate some traditional questions in business ethics in his paper: “Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective” Heath starts off with the premise that the ‘‘ethics scandals’’ in the early years of the twenty-first century was not [...]
Business Ethics and Term Paper Mills
Having someone else write you college term paper is cheating. There is no ethical debate. If you use one of these services you are passing off another person’s work as your own. Since I was in college and law school before the rise of the internet, these services were not easy to find during my [...]
Who Can Define Values?
A cynical look from Dilbert at corporate culture creation: Some of the comments to the comic reinforce this cynical view of corporate values (and ethics): kmulchandani: Just Brilliant! i had a boss who always preached in a code of ethics and values, but when it came to him he was always excused. Quoting him it [...]
The Newspaper Rule and a Massachusetts Politician
One of the classic statements in a compliance program is “don’t do something if you would be embarrassed to see a story about it on the front page of the newspaper.” Just because something is legal, it does not mean it’s ethical or a good thing to do. A recent example popped up in Massachusetts [...]
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