Creating a successful brand image is about finding what’s authentic to your company and letting it come through in your daily actions, says Kate Quinn, chief administrative officer at U.S. Bank. Trader Joe’s wasn’t always the national phenomenon it is today. Like many businesses, it started small, with a single store in Southern California. Kate…

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The Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) recently released a report, “Ethical Leadership Around the World and Why It Matters,” as part of its Global Business Ethics Survey. Among the results, researchers found that ethical leadership is key to lowering ethics and compliance risk. Unfortunately, they also found that leaders tend to have a more positive…

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Dealing with ethical issues can be perplexing. How, exactly, should we think through the alternatives? What questions should we ask? What factors should we consider? Classic ethical reasoning methods suggest that once we have ascertained the facts, we should ask ourselves five questions when trying to resolve an ethical issue: Who are the stakeholders? What…

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