In this issue if you want to “build in” a strong set of values and create a healthy organizational culture as you start a company, how would you go about it? We think Getty Images offers a great model. Less than a decade from its founding (1995), Getty has quickly become the biggest and best …
Readers share thoughts on ethics as more than compliance, a global view of business ethics, Visa fighting pornography, and large-scale systems failure.
Managing a business is tough. Managing a good business is tougher. Don’t oversimplify it and distort the results.
Jonathan Klein discusses ethical questions around Getty’s Images as well as commercial and editorial photography.
Gary Hardaway believes that a kind business attracts more customers, eager to be served by people of integrity. A predatory business may eventually run out of victims.
David Gill proposes a three-stage approach to potential and actual crises.
Leadership
by Rudolph W. Giuliani
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
by Francis Fukuyama
The Ethical Process: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues
by Marvin T. Brown
Medical Information Web Resources
edited by Gerard Beenen
How did your university or business school education affect the values and ethics you bring to your company and career? Universities don’t build values or ethics. Families do. Business schools give you the tools required to do your job efficiently and professionally but at the end of the day it is your upbringing that defines …
