Jaana Woiceshyn taught business ethics and competitive strategy for over 30 years at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, where she is now an emerita professor.
How to Be Profitable and Moral” is her first solo-authored book.
Visit her website at profitableandmoral.com.
A common exhortation heard today is: Set self-interest aside and act for the “common good.” Businesspeople in particular are accused of selfishness and are told (by media commentators, NGOs, and ethicists, among others) to serve the “common good.” This exhortation...
Most people in industrialized countries take the availability of such energy for granted: we turn on a switch, and the power is there, for heating, cooling, lighting, manufacturing, transportation, and for any other human purpose.
The feather in Mr. DiCaprio’s dunce cap is his hypocrisy over fossil fuels — without the energy provided by the fossil fuel companies, the Hollywood film industry could not exist, and DiCaprio could not have had the career and earned wealth he has.
How is it possible that business students—some of them with significant business experience—have never heard of the moral code of rational egoism?
While the use of reason is the fundamental requirement of business success, freedom—protected by individual rights—is its social requirement.
Free-market competition among the commercializing businesses makes genetic editing affordable and available to all.
If Zuckerberg truly wants to eliminate poverty and find cures for diseases, most of his money should be invested in profit-seeking businesses.
By creating the imaginary threat of man-made climate change, climate alarmists have given governments everywhere a justification to increase state control in our lives.
“Thoughts and prayers won’t stop the next attack. This war against civilization must be fought or lost.”
The incoming Liberal government’s statist ideology, reflected in its plans, has implications for our flourishing.
Had VW executive grasped the principle of honesty and chosen to follow it, the company’s current mess–ruined reputation, a potential recall of 11 million cars, the cost of fixing them, compensating customers, potential lawsuits, paying fines—could have been avoided.
The beauty of the Uber model is that it actually makes free trade between Uber’s drivers and their customers possible, without the intrusion of the regulatory state.
In cheating customers and others, VW was not acting selfishly but self-destructively.
The Left hates freedom and capitalism because capitalism and freedom are good for us.
A quality decision is one that leads to achievement of values.
The “stakeholder” approach is based on the mistaken premise that everyone that makes a claim on a business must be—or deserves to be—treated equally, and that the business must appease every critic.
Tyranny—the cruel and oppressive treatment of others by those in positions of power—is not possible under capitalism.
There is absolutely no moral reason to boycott the company.
Only one value can serve as the central purpose in a person’s life: productive work.
Resolute Forest Products’s CEO Richard Garneau is a business hero.
Why does it rule in business?
New headlines and news stories about Greece’s looming economic collapse appear daily. This weekend, the National Post has a series of articles on the theme “Greece on the brink.” Some point the finger at the country’s political leadership: “The negotiation game:...
Freedom is a fundamental requirement of innovation.
Altruism is to blame for Greece’s woes.
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