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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. His achievements in building profitable and ethical companies have been featured in a variety of national media including USA Today, Automotive News, Entrepreneur Magazine , and Globe.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The tightly-controlled automotive company fostered a mentality where the lower ranks faced immense pressure to achieve the company’s business objectives. Who gets promoted?

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. Imagine: Future robots could be built to include a kind of ethical clause that limits what they are allowed to do. By 2003, there were 800,000. Technology'

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What HoloLens Has That Google Glass Didn’t

Harvard Business Review

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass? This is precisely what made Glass vulnerable to the ethical and social issues that dogged it. Courtesy of Microsoft.