Business Ethics

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Playing with fire in West, Texas

Karl D. Stephan | 30 April 2013 |

tags: business ethics, engineering

Ammonium nitrate fertiliser seems like a simple material, but it has a history of causing devastating explosions which have killed hundreds of people.

Who sets the ethical tone of society?

Margaret Somerville | 16 November 2012 |

tags: business ethics, Canada, corruption

A massive corruption scandal in Quebec raises the question of how to screen out rogues before they reach the trough.

Man versus machine

John Robertson | 08 August 2012 |

tags: automation, business ethics, financial markets

Like a runaway train, a berserk computer nearly sent a leading US stockbroker into bankruptcy last week. It could happen again.

After LIBOR: looking for a line in ethical sand

John Robertson | 02 August 2012 |

tags: business ethics, financial crisis, LIBOR

Will we ever eliminate financial scandals? Probably not. If you put cheese at the end of a laboratory maze, eventually the mice will get there.

No carnival for Costa Concordia captain

Constance Kong | 24 January 2012 |

tags: business ethics, leadership

Who’s really culpable in one of the most avoidable disasters of recent maritime history?

The team and the star

Max Torres | 17 October 2011 |

tags: baseball, business ethics, management

The 2010 winner of the World Series, the San Francisco Giants, acquired superstar Carlos Beltran and sank like a stone. Why?

I feel, therefore I buy

Efrat Tseëlon | 15 June 2011 |

tags: business ethics, fashion, marketing

Neuroscience has put the last nail in the coffin of the rational consumer.

Seeking snow white investments

Blake Robinson | 05 November 2010 |

tags: business ethics, investment, pornography

Socially responsible investing can be a way to battle the harms of pornography.

The quest for ethical oil

Rebekah Hebbert | 18 October 2010 |

tags: business ethics, environment, oil industry

Canada’s oil sands exploitation may not be cleanest industry on the planet, but how ethical are the alternatives?

“Economics is not a morality play” And so?

Alejo Jose G. Sison | 01 October 2010 |

tags: business ethics, economics, recession

An ethicist challenges a leading economist's claim that the market is necessarily amoral.

China’s crisis conundrum

Constance Kong | 13 August 2010 |

tags: business ethics, China, corporate governance, corruption

Despite the government's attempts to regulate consumer safety, corrupt business practices are deeply rooted in Chinese culture.

Will shuffling the deck deal BP a better hand?

Alistair Nicholas | 02 August 2010 |

tags: BP, business ethics, corporate culture, environment

Along with cleaning up the catastrophic oil spill, BP has to clean up its toxic corporate culture.