"Ethics" Posts

Small Business Ethics

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 …