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Heather Yuill

Time Theft Becomes Grand Larceny Over the Course of a Career | Suite101.com - 3 views

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    It is interesting how an unethical decision can seem small at first but usually shapes up to be much worse than you originally thought.
Kara Hible

The Last Women Standing on Wall Street - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    This article is about how women are rare in the higher seats of the business world. Their numbers are declining in the recession.
anonymous

10 Advertisers Exploiting the Sept. 11 Attacks to Push Their Brands | BNET - 0 views

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    Some advertisers have been appealing to Sept. 11 to tell their own stories. Part of the appeal for this sort of thing is what's called in logic an "appeal to emotion" - if you use a symbol people have a powerful emotional connection to, they will be more easily swayed or drawn to you, or in this case to your product.
anonymous

Sarah Kaminsky: My father the forger - 0 views

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    An interesting angle on the ethics of truth telling vs. lying: "Sarah Kaminsky tells the extraordinary story of her father Adolpho and his activity during World War II -- using his ingenuity and talent for forgery to save lives."
Brady Krumwiede

SEC Adopts Final Whistleblower Rules | Business Ethics - 0 views

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    Securities and Exchange Commision approved a law that rewards cash for people that inform the SEC about a business who has commited illegal activies within the government.
Brady Krumwiede

Gerd Koenen, Norbert Schreiber: Give the Peace Prize to Politkovskaya (13/02/2007) - si... - 1 views

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    After viewing the discussion video for this week I thought that we should recognize and see how amazing this woman really was. She put her life in danger just to seek out the truth in Russia's corrupt government.
Kara Hible

Stripping U.S. EPA of Water Quality Regulatory Authority | Business Ethics - 1 views

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    This article is about a new act that would essentially make it so the EPA would no longer have the authority for the Clean Water Act. The authority would go to the individual state.
Kara Hible

Postal Service pleads poverty | StarTribune.com - 0 views

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    This news article is about the U.S. Postal Service. The rest of the country is having to cut back and change their way of running things but for the post office to make those same needed changes, Congress has to vote on it.
Heather Yuill

Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a Leader | Business Ethics - 1 views

  • Most of these people actually do know at the core the difference between right or wrong and they know what to do with it. They know how to intellectualize what they would do with it. They just don’t know how to deal with it in real time in a real place. When confronted by a situation and no experience and no practice, they default to places where they have never been. That is where you find people cutting corners, taking short cuts, and doing stupid things
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    Evidence-based practice as a method of teaching business ethics.
anonymous

10 Great Things Courtesy of Labor Unions - 0 views

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    Unions have become a rather controversial topic within American work culture today, but they arose in a very different time and shaped people's work life today in some pretty profound ways, most would say some pretty good ways.
anonymous

The Commercial Space Race - 0 views

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    It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The common assumption is that commercially driven efforts at space travel are far more likely to have detrimental consequences than those that have been government funded projects. Should space be open to commercial odysseys?
anonymous

Why governments don't get startups | VentureBeat - 0 views

  • Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur” and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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      important quote
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    entrepreneurship and government
anonymous

International Business Ethics Institute - Links - 0 views

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    Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (United States: Indiana University)http://php.indiana.edu/~appe/home.html The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects.
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    list of business ethics resources
anonymous

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Departmen... - 0 views

shared by anonymous on 05 Sep 11 - Cached
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      explanation
  • Twenty-one percent of students at grade 12 report studying other countries and cultures almost every day.
anonymous

Ethics Commission denied in bid to expand its powers - SignOnSanDiego.com - 0 views

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    A San Diego City Council committee killed two proposals to strengthen the city's Ethics Commission yesterday - demonstrating that the council has ultimate authority over its own watchdog. The commission sought the ability to subpoena witnesses during its investigations and wanted to make it illegal to knowingly lie or provide false documents to it.
anonymous

What happens to email after you die - Holy Kaw! - 1 views

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    the ethics of your non-existence
anonymous

Deflating - 2 views

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    on burn-out in the medical profession
anonymous

Job bennies: A bad drug? | Marketplace Scratch Pad | Marketplace from American Public ... - 3 views

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    Does unemployment insurance lengthen periods of unemployment?
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