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 ...

In a business, the decisions made by groups and individuals have the ability to affect the overall image of the company. Training employees to make ethical decisions will help keep your company image ...

An effective ethics and compliance program, by definition, translates into ethical business decisions. Believe it or not, to bring ethics into the equation you do not need to be a philosopher, ...

Shanda O’Dennis is a learning and development associate at Friends Services Alliance, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides services to more than 115 nonprofit organizations in 16 states — ...

On March 26, 2014, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson spoke to an international meeting of the InterAction Council, an association of former presidents and prime ...

The success of a business depends on whether the products and services it sells produce enough revenue to pay for its costs, but profit is not the only consideration that can weigh on business ...

In the previous century, the primary focus for most companies was profit maximization for shareholders. In the last few decades, a shift from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism happened, and the ...

Ethical leadership is losing ground in 2025. In today's dynamic corporate environment, influential critics often challenge and undermine leaders who commit to ethical leadership. These conflicts ...

How do you make the right choice when all the options are bad? There’s a tool for navigating humanitarian dilemmas.

Ethicists have developed a general framework for balancing the child’s interests with the scope of parental authority. That framework, first articulated by a presidential commission on bioethics in ...