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Cash rebates: consumer incentives and business ethics

Cash rebates, to the eye of a financial neophyte, seem perplexing. When one buys a new appliance, for example, a cash rebate usually takes the form of an offered incentive to make the purchase on the manufacturer's part whereby the consumer is offered a rebate if he or she sends in an enclosed…

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598 words

Moral, business, and personal ethics in contemporary practice

When we know something is right or wrong, good or bad, because of certain facts (not just preferences), we're confronting moral issues. Hurting people is wrong. Wanting vanilla ice cream is probably not, no matter that it may seem offensive to some of us sometimes.

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932 words

The debate over corporate social responsibility and business ethics

Companies Do Enough for Society by Simply Adding to the Economy or Should Businesses Also Attempt to be Socially Responsible

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2,577 words

Contrasting ethical perspectives on corporate social responsibility and business ethics

Corporate social responsibilities as well as business ethics have served as hotly contested issues over the last few decades. There has yet to be a consensus reached, to say the least, as to what there composition should look like or even if they are necessary academic pursuits at all.

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Costco's approach to resolving false business ethics dilemmas

The big thing in this and other reports is that there are tradeoffs, but they are not necessarily ethical tradeoffs.

~11 min read

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1,018 words

Federal sentencing guidelines and their impact on business ethics

Regulatory Measures Events that led to implementation of various regulatory measures The implementation of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act called for the establishment of Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO).

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Essay Undergraduate 1,964 words

Code of Conduct, Ethics, and Leadership Conflicts in Business

Explores how corporate codes of conduct shape ethics and values, using the Tyco scandal and personal workplace experience to analyze leadership conflicts.

Ethics

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Essay Undergraduate 1,283 words

Ethics, CSR, and the Triple Bottom Line in Business

Explores how deontological ethics, teleological ethics, moral objectivism, and ethical relativism support the corporate triple bottom line beyond profit.

Ethics

~7 min read

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Case Study Undergraduate 797 words

Integrity and Leadership: Applying Sherman's Framework to Business Ethics

Analysis of how Sherman's Eight Steps toward Integrity apply to a business ethics case involving bribery and health code violations in a restaurant company.

Ethics

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Essay Undergraduate 787 words

Greed, Ethics, and American Business Culture on Screen

Explores how Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Martha Stewart's scandal reveal the complex ethics and motivations driving American business culture beyond simple greed.

Business

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