Better Business Bureau Ethics TORCH Award Finalist Lakeshirts Blue 84 from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, builds their business by following five ethics rules and involving employees in the success of the company. Used by kind permission of the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota & North Dakota. Originally published on November 28, 2018.

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In March, Ethical Systems hosted its second “Ethics by Design” conference. It showcased not just the expertise of top behavioral-science researchers and business practitioners, but also the challenges—both empirical and managerial—that they face in redesigning organizations to function more ethically. As social psychologist Jon Haidt, the Founding Director of Ethical Systems, said in his closing…

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Discover the benefits of diversity, inclusion, and engagement to your organization and employees with clinical psychologist Dr. Vanessa Weaver. Dr. Weaver is the CEO and Founder of @AllignmentStrategies and @ditvmedia, one of the country’s first independent organizations to focus on diversity as a business driver. BBB Better Series: Diversity & inclusion with alignment strategies Used…

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To See, Own, Articulate, and Release your mission, is the premise behind SOAR Community Networks. Mali Phonpadith, founder and CEO of SOAR Community Networks, joins us to talk about the difference between good leaders and great leaders. BBB Better Series: Great leaders SOAR Used by kind permission of the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota &…

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“There is no gray area in doing what is right. If you have a moral compass, you will always know to head north.” Luxe Bloom’s, CEO Shelley Rosen joins us to discuss the tools she uses to build her organization’s foundation. Hear her perspective on how doing good in business makes a world of difference…

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Five “gestures of respect” may determine whether they do or not In the fall of 2015, as an ethnographer who helps organizations understand how their audiences see the world, I was asked by Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) to examine how consumers think about interactions with businesses. Ultimately, the goal was to define what…

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With more than a century of experience under its belt, Better Business Bureau (BBB) still remains as committed as ever to keeping businesses accountable to a just and ethical marketplace. Since the early 1900s, BBB has been on the forefront of positive marketplace change. From its inception, BBB looked to correct advertising abuses by fighting…

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From the things we say to the actions we take each day, our world- and that of business- is comprised of thousands of decisions, both big and small. How we come to make those decisions is the result of intuition and analysis and, in most cases, influenced by biases that we may or may not…

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An Interview with Dick Coffey, Chairman of Consortio Group, and Recipient of the 2017 Better Business Bureau Integrity AwardBy Sam Bittner and Zunair Malik, Creighton University MBA Students The insurance industry has some unique challenges when it comes to business ethics. Customers often don’t fully understand the coverages or legal wording in their insurance contract,…

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An Interview with Greg Boulay, President/CEO of Pella Windows & Doors, 2017 Better Business Bureau Integrity Award WinnerBy Madeleine Jesse and Camille Uher, MBA Candidates at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business Can you define ethics and tell us what ethics means to you? The fundamental definition of the word ethics to me is rooted…

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