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Successful businesses bring many things to the communities in which they are located. Because they are successful and profitable they are often admired by most of the people that reside near them.

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Jeffrey Wigand's contribution to business ethics is two-fold, and one in which his name has become synonymous with as a noted whistle-blower.

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Starbucks' ethics codes and corporate culture strategy

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Ethical Analysis of a Workplace Financial Dilemma

An ethical analysis of a Global Investment Banking case study using utilitarian, deontological, and virtue ethics lenses to evaluate a financial dilemma.

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Corporate social responsibility toward environment and people

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Should managers be licensed as professionals like doctors and attorneys

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Comparative financial performance of PepsiCo and Coca-Cola in 2004

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