"Ethics" Posts
Small Business Ethics
By Jun 8, 2011
Moral standards play an important role in society. Is your business responsible?
Last November, in my main ethics elective at the MIT Sloan School of Management, I finally asked a question of my MBA’s that I should have asked weeks earlier: “How many of you grew up in a family business?” About one quarter of the 40-plus students in the room—U.S. and other nationals—put up a hand; in a class that routinely has a higher-than-average number of women—40-50% to a schoolwide 31%—more than half of those who put up a hand were women.
In the wake of the spectacular ethical …
