As a business owner, you will face many decisions that impact you, your business, your customers, and your employees. Nearly all of your decisions will have some kind of ethical dimension to them. For ...

An endowed professorship is a prestigious faculty position permanently funded by a donation. Endowed faculty positions ...

Webster’s Dictionary defines ethics as a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct. “Honest,” “fair” and “law-abiding” may be a few words that come to mind when you think of ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a post cabinet press conference. Ardern has been praised for her ethical leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty ...

Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. Ethics captures the conditions in which human beings ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I recently happened to read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Skin in the Game. The idea of ...

A simple shift in business education, training MBA students to listen effectively, can significantly boost their humility and ...

What is ethical leadership? Do you base it on something as simple and straight-forward as Don’t Do Evil or is it grounded in one of the more well-known philosophers, such as Jeremy Bentham and ...

Ethics requires consistency – the absence of contradictions. As a guide for morality, ethics must be rational, and to be rational it must be free of contradictions. – Center for Applied Ethics, Santa ...

Traditional compliance monitors corporate data to flag potential unethical behavior by employees, whether illegal actions or simply those that violate corporate policies. The programs then seek to ...

Organizations need workplace standards to promote safety and quality, so they establish margins of error where some deviation from the ideal is acceptable. For ...