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 ...

Many companies that regularly face ethical dilemmas, often unique to their industries, are developing comprehensive guidelines outlining their ethical principles in order to help employees make the ...

Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, is a faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and an adjunct clinical ...

[Rose Proctor] So let's recap a little bit around effective communication and critical thinking. So we talked about that effective communication is having that ability to display appropriate listening ...

Within many professions, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) can make jobs easier and more efficient. It can save companies time and money, but sometimes at human cost. Although we worry about ...

Ethics is a fundamental part of everyday living and should guide our decisions, behaviors, and interactions in both personal and professional settings. Ethics involves determining what is right and ...

In a broad sense, business ethics addresses the rights and responsibilities of public administrators as "stewards" to the public. It deals with the moral choices that must be made in the completion of ...

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 ...

Stories of corporate greed, employee exploitation and ethical lapses abound. We can point to the classic large-scale examples of Enron, Theranos and the many financial firms involved in the 2008 ...