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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business

Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical? Our question stemmed from the idea that prosperous times are often linked to ethical missteps. Our work suggests that they may be more ethical, too.

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Health Economics Part III – Organ Donations

Tom Spencer

Some suggest that financial incentives for donors could increase donor rates, however this proposition leads to some ethical dilemmas about rights to health – should the wealthy be able to receive higher priority care than the poor? People are concerned with the ethics of the new law.

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My Company is Better than Your Company

Martinka Consulting

Lawyers aren’t generally ethical so I’m glad I have a super attorney. In 2006 all the predictions in the Seattle area were for at least five very solid years for commercial construction. I sense a lot of owners are, remembering 2006-2008 and also looking at industry stats showing a strong couple years and then a big drop-off.

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. Intellectual property theft.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2006, after attaining my MBA, I answered the clarion call of entrepreneurship and started my own business, Behold! I also committed to becoming a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) to grow and prove my consulting competencies around an ethical framework. Signs and Graphic Solutions.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. At that point, everybody will lean in together to fix that problem in an ethical and compliant manner, even if it takes considerably longer,” Bistrong says.

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Software Piracy Declined in China

Chad Barr

Of all estimated software used in China in 2006, 82% was pirated vs. 86% the year before. Running my software development firm for the past 20 years, this is a huge ethical and economical issue which I hope is resolved expeditiously. The WSJ has just reported a reduction in software piracy in China.