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My five-step method for making ethical, profitable business decisions (see my March 4 blog entry) is not just a method for making business decisions that have ethical dimensions. It is a method for making any business decision. And although I call it “my” method, it isn’t really “my” method. It is the method most businesspeople [...]

The study of business ethics is the study of right and wrong in the conduct of business. But right and wrong according to whom? A business transaction that seems right to a stockholder or CEO might seem wrong to an employee or customer. Even the most ethical businessperson often doesn’t know what the right thing [...]

This year we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. I watched and heard that speech on live TV that day. I was 10 years old. I turned 60 a few weeks ago. In that speech, Dr. [...]