The Business Ethics Boom

The Business Ethics Boom:
Significant, or Just for Show
Cynthia Mason
Financial Analysis for Managers 1
FIN 324
Professor Banu Aslan
March 20, 2003
The Business Ethics Boom:
Significant, or Just for Show?

The article, The Business Ethics Boom: Significant, or Just for Show (www.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?article=258), discusses the increase in corporate ethics programs and if ethics and decision making go hand-in-hand? For example, when does a business cross the line from making a profit to stealing the profits? The article also discusses how in the past businesses had a host of ethical issues to deal with, but now with the current environment of continuous and rapid change, businesses are presented with a multitude of new challenges.
What is the definition of ethics? "A set of principles of right conduct. A theory or a system of moral values. The rules and standards governing the conduct of a person or the member of a profession" (American Heritage D...