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The "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list as an ethical business indicator

The "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list, compiled by Business Ethics magazine, is designed to serve stakeholders with "with excellence and integrity," (Graves, Waddock, and Kelly).

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Milton Friedman's 1970 argument on business profit and social responsibility

Milton Friedman famously proposed in 1970 that the "social responsibility of business is to increase its profits," and that notion of business ethics is still prevalent today, though the debate about the subject has yet to abate.

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Jim Cramer and Blake Mycoskie on success and ethics

He touched on a few different subjects in his speech. One moment was when he related a story about ethics. It was basically about this time he had an opportunity to steal, but did not.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Business, Society & Human Rights

Explores Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the triple bottom line, corporate governance, and how businesses impact human rights and social sustainability.

Business

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Strategy Tools

Explores CSR measurement challenges, stakeholder vs. shareholder perspectives, and B corporations as a framework for evaluating social responsibility's business impact.

Business

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Corporate accountability and international standards for business oversight

What community or global concerns do you feel need attention and how would you propose to address the problem? The biggest global concern that needs attention is the runaway abuses that are occurring at the hands of business.

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Sustainability as an integrated framework for business, environment, and society

Across the globe there continues to be a crescendo in the discussion by political and business leaders, academics, the science community, and ordinary citizens regarding the notion of sustainability.

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Employee privacy versus workplace monitoring spyware ethics

The question of whether or not it is right for a company to put spyware on all of its employee's workstation computers in order to detect private usage and so increase productivity -- or at the very least stem the loss of work hours due to private use -- that the company believes is occurring is…

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Strategic philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in business

Stockholders understandably might resist a program of strategic philanthropy, seeing it as a dilution of stock value and a diversion of funds from a form that the company can use to one where the company is simply giving these funds to others.

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Corporate responsibility and human rights violations in international business

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