Facing the evil around and inside us
Bernard Moon reflects on Professor Phillip Zimbardo’s TED 2008 Presentation, “Will Evil Prevail?” and challenges us to face the evil around us and within us.
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Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.
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The Impact of Stress on Behavior at Work
Inc.com reports the finding from a recent Harris Interactive poll for Deloitte & Touche in Stress and Long Hours Prompt Employees to Lie, Cheat, and Steal. The article summarizes two key findings from a poll of over 1,000 employees nationwide this past February.
Work-life conflicts lead to poor decision-making and unethical behavior
In the first finding, […]
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A Roman Catholic order acquires a Pfizer biotech lab to develop cures for cancer and gains influence to push for more ethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan Wooldridge asks how we can push for positive change within our own industries.
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Ad Age asks: "Did Wal-Mart overstep its bounds with a holiay website that allows children to build a toy wish list that the retailer e-mails to their parents?
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Do you know what you're hiring?
Dan Wooldridge points out that the rampant cheating in schools will eventually have a long term impact in business performance and the quality of our society.
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Washington Post writer Shankar Vedantam writes about the high moral tone of talk about sports cheating in a piece titled "Cheating is an Awful Thing for Other People to Do." Hmm…
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Employee theft costs businesses 10 times more than street crime. Small businesses are most vulnerable due to the trusting environments they create.
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Harvard Business School’s Rafael Di Tella comments on a Harvard Business Review case study called The Shakedown. At stake in the scenario: should a business pay bribes to compete in an emerging market? Forget about emerging markets, what about the G8?
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When a Coke employee offered to sell trade secrets to Pepsi, Pepsi blew the whistle.
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Harvard Law’s Elizabeth Warren chronicles the American middle class at risk in her Social Science Research Council paper, "Rewriting the Rules: Families, Money and Risk." Underneath the surface issues, usury raises its ugly head.
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The Ethics of Gift Wrapping
Gap’s gift wrapping suggestion provides an example of how integrity and ethics plays out in the little things that a company does. Dan Wooldridge points out that little things are big things when it comes to character.
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