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What Aristotle Can Teach Firms About CSR

Harvard Business Review

I believe that this is due to the discrepancy in the two dominant approaches in rationalizing why corporations should be ethical. The company is there to make money, but it also tries to appear to meet the public expectation of acting ethically. I don’t blame them. That’s why the CSR activities often don’t ring true.

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If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating

Harvard Business Review

A lot of letters started pouring in to the chairman of the board of Pillsbury," Cohen recalls, "and some major articles appeared. To make such requests, you're going to need to have built a hell of a personal bond. Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. They launched the "What's the Doughboy Afraid of?"

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Jon Stewart, Superboss

Harvard Business Review

They encourage the creation of strong, emotional bonds and loyalties between protégés as well as between protégés and themselves. Stewart embraced most of these tendencies. The work on The Daily Show was fast-paced, with deadlines to be met every day for the night’s show.

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