As a business owner, you will face many decisions that impact you, your business, your customers, and your employees. Nearly all of your decisions will have some kind of ethical dimension to them. For ...

How do you make ethical decisions? In a confusing and complex world, clarity and simplicity are very important when it comes to our ethical choices, or else we get lost. First, I need to confess my ...

Strong leadership emerges at the intersection of these qualities. When they align, leaders can pursue success fairly and authentically.

Shanda O’Dennis is a learning and development associate at Friends Services Alliance, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides services to more than 115 nonprofit organizations in 16 states — ...

On March 26, 2014, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson spoke to an international meeting of the InterAction Council, an association of former presidents and prime ...

How do you make the right choice when all the options are bad? There’s a tool for navigating humanitarian dilemmas.

I do believe that most business leaders want to do the right thing, but many just don’t have the skills to develop an unemotional ethical position, or confidence to act on their ethical beliefs, or ...

Some believe that ethics cannot be learned; that is, that our morals are "hardwired" and that, in stressful situations or in situations where our personal interests are at stake, we will always ...

Ethical leadership is losing ground in 2025. In today's dynamic corporate environment, influential critics often challenge and undermine leaders who commit to ethical leadership. These conflicts ...

We all want the best for the animals with whom we share our lives in one way or another (for more discussion on this topic please see " Dogs Want and Need Much More Than They Usually Get from Us "), ...

This is the most frequent question I am asked, whether by readers of my columns or students in the classroom. This is a fair question, one that begins with an admission that when it comes to making ...