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The Best of Intentions: The Tale of Robinhood
The story of the stock-trading app, Robinhood, presents an opportunity to reflect on the many tensions that exist within business activities.
Lawmakers Call Out Big Tech’s Attacks on FTC Chair Kahn as ‘Illogical and Inconsistent’
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Kahn accused by Facebook and Amazon CEOs of showing bias in her efforts to highlight the firms’ anticompetitive practices.
Ethics by Design: Culture Management
A Guide to Managing Your Culture for Ethics
Six methods for leading an organization to achieve ethical outcomes by making decisions with the consideration of others, meaning various stakeholders, in mind.
Cultural Humility: A Leadership Virtue
Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive Culture Grounded in Employee Experience
Direction for the development of the workplace virtue known as cultural humility, defining employee experience, and identifying competencies that can be used to cultivate skills in the workforce with suggestions about how these can be woven into the intentional management and integration of corporate culture.
Money Talks: It Says we Don’t Share Well
Rises in the gap between c-suite executive and frontline worker pay have grown exponentially, while the rest of the world is suffering through a pandemic.
Robinhood: Legend or Fairy Tale? It’s Important That we can Tell the Difference
Businesses that serve consumers and other businesses simultaneously often involve conflicted interests, and require regulation to reconcile these conflicts.
AI in the Service of Humanity
The Partnership on AI, in collaboration with Markkula Center for Applied Ethics staff, has published a paper offering a framework for workforce well-being in the age of artificial intelligence.
School Leaders Need Our Help Providing Equitable Education
The decision to send children back in classrooms is a particularly challenging one for school superintendents, and they need our support.
Reassessing the Santa Clara Principles
A Call for Input on Best Practices in Content Moderation
A request for input from interested parties--in particular marginalized communities