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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Bribery and the Culture of Politics
Seven active U.S lawmakers are under investigation, indicted or have pled guilty to conspiracy, securities fraud, tax evasion, campaign funding violations or other illegal acts. Yikes.
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Ethics And Technology: What's Possible v. What's Right
Brian Quinton’s blog post about sparse attendance at an ethics forum at the Direct Marketing Association’s DMA•05 Show got InsideWork thinking about trust in business.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
Sony’s rootkit — and especially their rootkit removal instructions — make a computer an easier target for other attacks. Meanwhile, corporate IT departments are playing damage control. How did we get here?
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Where Do We Go From Here?
After only 10 Days, Sony pulled it’s rootkit-enabled CDs. Amazing the power of marketplace forces! So, where does Sony go from here? Do they become more secretive, or more honest and open?
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The Failure of Corporate Responsibility
Playing some Sony music CDs secretly installs hacker tool on your computer. Sony insists that it’s just there for copy protection. Dan Wooldridge explains why treating your customer as if they were the enemy is not the way good businesses are run.
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Tempted by Cheap and Easy
What do you do when you see the chance to make a quick buck for the company with very little downside? A Seth Godin reader posed that question for real: The offer to spam three million addresses with no threat of blacklisting for just 500 bucks.
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Spotting and Stopping Phishing Expeditions
PayPal’s top ten tips for spotting emails designed to steal your personal data.
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Donald McGilchrist was kind enough to share this bibliography on business ethics and corporate corruption.
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