What is right and what is wrong behavior in the business world takes on different meanings in different cultures, making it challenging to truly define business ethics in international markets.

Although the best way to create an attitude within an organization is for the top leadership to set an example, sometimes in larger companies that just isn't enough. As companies grow and the culture ...

Every decision we make, whether consciously or unconsciously, is informed by our ethical values, including those in business. While ethics has always been emphasized in the finance classes I’ve taken, ...

Ann Skeet is the Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views expressed here are her own. This article was originally published as, "What ...

In 2021, the Toyota Motor Company agreed to pay a $180 million fine to settle a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement action against the company. The action stemmed from Toyota’s ...

Traditional compliance monitors corporate data to flag potential unethical behavior by employees, whether illegal actions or simply those that violate corporate policies. The programs then seek to ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and transformative effect on many aspects of life. The crisis has also dramatically highlighted ethical challenges not only as they apply to government ...

New research from Notre Dame offers the first large-sample study on how rules and ethics training affects behavior and employment decisions in the financial sector. Can ethics be taught? New research ...

The tales of unethical behavior and secret “hush money” deals have rightly spurred the U.S. House of Representatives to overhaul sexual harassment and discrimination oversight in the legislative ...

Are ethics professors more ethical than other philosophers? Eric Schwitzgebel, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, has written a series of posts over the ...