Corporate Ethics


The Recent Evolution of Ethics in Business Practice and Policy

The growing attention to and awareness of business ethics can be attributed to a number of factors. These include the increased globalization and decentra...  Read story

The Importance of Being Ethical

Companies with strong ethics programs have found that these efforts can reduce potential costly fines, decrease vulnerability, improve reputation, provide...  Read story

Book Review: The Right Thing -- Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today's Business

It's amazing what a difference a few years can make! During the boom years of the 1980s and, most especially, the 1990s, it was rare to find business peop...  Read story

Business Ethics

Caveat emptor . This ancient Latin proverb, let the buyer beware , tells us that business ethics has been a societal concern going back a ...  Read story

Code of Ethics

A code of ethics issued by a business is a particular kind of policy statement. A properly framed code is, in effect, a form of legislation within the com...  Read story

Home Is Where The Work Is

The scattered ranks of home-based business operators are forming up to battle an apparent attack on homework by unions. Homework in the outerwear and wome...  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader to reader advice.  Read story

The Inc. Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Sundae School

A CEO tells why it is so difficult to be socially resposible when creating daily business policies.  Read story

Study: Corporate Social Responsibility Growing

April 11, 2007 -- Four out of five businesses worldwide incorporate some form of corporate social responsibility policies in their busine...  Read story

Can Business Still Save The World?

Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben Jerry's...  Read story

Ethics and Entrepreneurship

Building a business means facing all kinds of ethical decisions. Should you skip a creditor's bill in a cash flow crisis? Help an alco...  Read story

Ethics and Entrepreneurship

Building a business means facing all kinds of ethical decisions. Should you skip a creditor's bill in a cash flow crisis? Help an alcoh...  Read story

The Moral Imagination of Entrepreneurs

To deal effectively and responsibly with both ongoing and emerging ethics issues, business needs to shift its perspective from reactive compliance t...  Read story

Dov Charney, Like It or Not

The founder of red-hot American Apparel has the simplest possible business strategy: He does and says exactly what he wants to.  Read story

Holiday Gifts without the Crowds

Not sure what to get that client or colleague for the holidays? Ten entrepreneurs rate sites offering everything from executive toys to spa packages.  Read story

What Enron Didn't Teach Us

Years after multibillion-dollar scandals rocked corporate America, more than half of employees at both public and private companies admit they have witnessed...  Read story

It's Not Easy Being Green

Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ...  Read story

The Best Cause of All

U.S. companies are by far bigger givers than their global counterparts. Yet they're not particularly interested in doing good. What gives?  Read story

Leading the Way to Fairer Trade Practices

When you buy a pound of gourmet coffee for $8 or $9, as little as 40 cents of that maygo to the farmers who grew it. Much is siphoned off by middlemen in ...  Read story

Sexual Harassment;

MECHELLE VINSON SUCCUMBED to her boss's advances at least 40 times during a four-year period. She didn't notify top management until she quit and charged...  Read story

Money In Coins

Rare coins are no more confusing or erratic than any other investment ("All that Glitters," Personal Portfolio, November 1985). Talk to five different sto...  Read story

Doing Well by Doing Good

Every entrepreneur hopes to do well. We'd all like to make a lot of money and have a big, profitable customer base. But over the years, I've realized that...  Read story

Sweatshops, Free Trade Force Owner to Call It Quits

The story of how a manufacturing company failed under pressures from GATT, NAFTA, and sweatshops.  Read story

A

Fair labor law violations have reached an "unacceptable level," the Minimum Wage Study Commission says. In response to this charge, Secretary of Labor Ray...  Read story

Nothing But Green Skies

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of the nation's top family-owned businesses, a $12 billion behemoth that dominates its industry. But CEO Andy Taylor feared it a...  Read story

The Change Masters, By Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Simon Schuster, 1230 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020, 432 Pp., $19.95.

The major difference between the old corporate ethic and the new, says this Yale professor and management consultant, is that the former expected workers ...  Read story

Fax Fix Nixed

Social Investment Forum sent copy of FaxPoll on social responsibility to its members to rig results.  Read story

Dossier: A Standout in Her Field

Susan Davis pushes socially responsible business by drawing elite investors into her circle of networks.  Read story

Take This Job and Love it

Reviews of eight business books, including three books from CEOs on the angst and joys of building a company, three books on open-book management, and two bo...  Read story

Ethics Earns Big Profits for London-Based Ad Agency

Talk about a dream coming true: St. Luke' s ad agency in London began as a kind ofdreaming, abstract exercise in imagining the advertising agency of the f...  Read story

MBA Students Stress Social Role

More business students feel a company's responsibilities go beyond the boardroom.  Read story

Building Buzz

Creating local word of mouth can help spread the word about your business without having to spend the big bucks.  Read story

Social Entrepreneurs Head to Malibu

Students, academics, entrepreneurs, and business leaders will gather in Malibu this month for a conference on the impact of social entrepreneurship, organ...  Read story

The Challenge of Social Entrepreneurs

Lessons in creative capitalism from the people at Google.  Read story

Why have I been hearing so much about business ethics and corporate responsibility lately?

Ethics in Business mentor Jeffrey Seglin responds: More and more people are wrestling with these issues. The Internet has been great...  Read story

Visa Launches Corporate Responsibility Program

The program will focus on humanitarian aid, poverty alleviation and small-business development.  Read story

  • 1