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McKinsey, Opioids, & Ethics

CaseInterview.com

That said, just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is moral, ethical, or advised. There is no way that someone on the McKinsey team didn’t run a “what if” model for increasing OxyContin sales and how many more deaths that would create. Over the past few years, I think McKinsey has lost its ethical and moral compass as a firm.

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McKinsey, Opioids, & Ethics

CaseInterview.com

That said, just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is moral, ethical, or advised. There is no way that someone on the McKinsey team didn’t run a “what if” model for increasing OxyContin sales and how many more deaths that would create. Over the past few years, I think McKinsey has lost its ethical and moral compass as a firm.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. At first glance, this policy looks reasonable. But it is the employee incentives that really matter.

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Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices

Harvard Business

Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. “Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. ” Of course, that policy comes directly from Enron. .”

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting - Part 4

The Consultants Peer Group

The new Code of Conduct is over and above the Code of Ethics and is not meant to subsume or replace it, rather to be in addition to the Code of Ethics. If you were to simply refer to the second blog you will likely see how these very public instances were caused by misplaced ethics and/or poor conduct behaviors. legality 1.4

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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?

Harvard Business

Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.” While the benefits are clearly far-reaching and potentially game changing, there are ethical questions to consider. For sales and business development, this is an invaluable tool.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. As an employee, I am sure you can identify with the poor communication you have seen from your employers related to expectations, priorities, medical benefits, lack of recognition, policy changes, and work procedures.