Business Ethics Center

New → The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker
 
Almost a year after A.I.G.’s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant. The author decides to ask the people involved—the silent, shell-shocked traders of the A.I.G. Financial Products unit—and finds that the story may have a villain, whose reign of terror over 400 employees brought the company, the U.S. economy, and the global financial system to their knees.
 
Fuzzy findings, media manipulation, and tort lawyers scare the public and destroy millions in shareholder and resale value.
 
 
Transcript of a talk delivered by Michael DeWilde, Director, Business Ethics Center, Grand Valley State University at ESC Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France on January 8, 2010.
 
When Jeff Koeze took over his father’s company, he knew almost nothing about it or any other business. But he knew how to learn, and 12 years later, he runs one of the smartest companies around.
 

 

 

 

The Business of the Humanities by Michael DeWilde

 

The liberal arts, and the humanities in particular, seem to be a hidden passion for any number of CEO’s, executives, Wall Street investors, and lawyers.

 

 

 

 

Fred Keller sheds some light on what he thinks is a tremendous opportunity in spite of the dire straights we are all facing today.

 

 

 

 

  

 

Banks Buy Toxic Assets by Jesse Eisinger

 

One bank’s innovative solution to the Wall Street bonus problem.

 

      

 

Can Selfishness Save the Environment? by Matt Ridley and Bobbi S. Low

 

Behavioral economics and evolutionary biology save the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer argues that a dollar value can be placed on a human life.

 

 

 

 

Joe Boomgaard on the change that business scandals bring.

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