Ethics Resources
Published Resources from the KBEI
- Social Capital, Economic Diversity, and Civic Well-Being in Flint and Grand Rapids by Michael DeWilde. Article featured on page 22 of Seidman Business Review, Volume XXII.
- Is There Nothing to be Done? Sexual Harassment, Emotional Empathy, and the Role of Men by Michael DeWilde and Nguyen Pham. Article featured on page 19 of Seidman Business Review, Volume XXVI.
- Psychological Introspection as Moral Courage in Leaders by Michael DeWilde. Transcript of a talk delivered at ESC Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France in January, 2010.
- The Business of the Humanities by Michael DeWilde. The liberal arts, and the humanities in particular, seem to be a hidden passion for any number of CEO’s, executives, Wall Street investors, and lawyers.
- A (very) Concise Guide to Eight Moral Theories by Michael DeWilde.
- An Outline for Ethical Decision-Making by Michael DeWilde.
- A Business Ethics Center Rethinks Its Role by Michael DeWilde.
General Business Ethics Resources
Books
Book cover for "Fixing the Game" by Roger Martin
Book cover for "Managed by the Markets" by Gerald F. Davis
Book cover for "Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing" by Barry Schwartz
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Book cover for "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers" by Robert Jackall
Book cover of "The Island of the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto
Book cover for "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Book Cover for "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman
Book cover for "Our Kids" by Robert D. Putnam
Book Cover for "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work" by Matthew B. Crawford
Book cover for "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Book cover for "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few" by Robert B. Reich
Book cover of "The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens" by Samuel Bowles
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Book cover to "Half the Sky" By Nicholas D. Kristof
Book Cover to "The Sympathizer" By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Articles
- Water could make the Great Lakes a climate refuge. (Bridge Michigan)
- Report Finds Grand Rapids has Lowest Percentage of Female Breadwinners (Grand Rapids Business Journal)
- McDonald's Workers in Denmark Pity Us (New York Times)
- Flint's decline, Grand Rapids' success predicted in 70-year-old study (MLive)
- Rational Actors and Political Persuasion (Harvard Gazette)
- Why Women Still Can't Have It All by Anne-Marie Slaughter (The Atlantic)
- The Christian Paradox: How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong by Bill McKibben (Harpers)
- The Education of an Educated CEO by Jeff Bailey.
Videos
- Should Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook Be Broken Up? Scott Galloway on The Big Four
- Anne-Marie Slaughter's TED Talk: Can we all "have it all"?
- Panel Discussion at GVSU on The Future of Capitalism: Constructive Competition or Chaos?
- Michael DeWilde on Why Grand Rapids is Not Flint. (Continued in Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.)
Behavioral Ethics Resources
Books
Book cover of "Re-Engineering Humanity" by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger
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Book cover of "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People or Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt
Book cover of "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them" by Joshua Greene
Book cover of "Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do About it" by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
Book cover for "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
Book cover of "The Glass Cage: How Computers are Changing Us" by Nicholas Carr
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Book cover of "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
Book cover for "The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous" by Joseph Henrich
Articles
- The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker
- Can Selfishness Save the Environment? by Matt Ridley and Bobbi S. Low Behavioral economics and evolutionary biology save the world.
- Power Moves: Success changes how people think and act—often, but not always, for the worse, by Theodor Schaarschmidt.
- Article about a recent U of M study on college students and empathy- Empathy: College students don't have as much as they used to and the corresponding study- Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis
- New York Times article, "Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others"
- We Know How You Feel- The New Yorker
Normative Ethics Resources
Books
Book cover of "Justice" by Micael J. Sandel
Book cover of "A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success" by Robert C. Solomon
Book Cover of " A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas" by Warren Berger
Book cover for "The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It" by Robert Reich
Articles
- Why We Must Ration Health Care by Peter Singer. Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer argues that a dollar value can be placed on a human life.
- Sally Satel on how science and reason lead to moral progress.
- Fortune's Humans are Underrated
Medical Ethics Resources
Books
Book cover of "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande
Book cover of "Medical Humanities: An Introduction" by Thomas R. Cole
Book cover of "Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness" by Joseph J. Fins
"The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir" by Michele Harper
"In Shock (My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope)" by Rana Awdish
Articles
- CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens helped perpetuate the opioid crisis, a jury found, the first time retailers were held accountable. by Jan Hoffman. Jan Hoffman, whose writing is centered around behavioral health and health law, discusses three of the nation's largest pharmacy chains' contribution to the opioid crisis in Ohio after a federal jury verdict.