Business ethics
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November 2026
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Ethics & corporate governance10 min readMisleading advertising breaks markets, not only ethics
For an owner or marketing lead signing off a claim before it goes out. "It is unethical" tends to lose the argument in a meeting, while Heath's case goes to the reason profit is allowed at all. Includes the Volkswagen case as the US Department of Justice described it, and a four-question test.
- Ethics & corporate governance10 min read
When is profit justified? A market failures test on 2008 and DWS
For owners reviewing how their firm makes money. Under the market failures approach, the question is whether profit comes from competition or from a gap in the market; this post tries that test on the 2008 crisis, the DWS case and an invented workshop.
- Ethics & corporate governance11 min read
Do not generalise “Asian values”: three readings on East–West ethics
For managers and owners handed an “East versus West” slide before a negotiation or a code-of-conduct meeting. Three papers, by Sen, Koehn and Ardichvili, each show why a two-block table is too coarse, and each attacks a different weak point.