Business Ethics


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.


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