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Small Business Week 2023: Ways You Can Make an Impact

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In 1953 the federal government created the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help business owners grow and prosper in our “Land of Opportunity.” Kennedy proclaimed the first National Small Business Week to honor top entrepreneurs in every state with special recognition and rewards. In 1963, President John F.

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Ethical Decisions, Character and Your Personal Vision

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Popular press headlines, with their all-too-frequent accounts of corporate misconduct, remind us that it is apparently too easy to succumb to the pressures of organizational life, sacrificing ethics for expediency or personal gain. 4 David Brooks, The Road to Character (New York: Random House, 2015), 21. Defining Moments. Badaracco Jr.,

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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

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We witness with seeming regularity the importance of ESG factors through such high-profile incidents such as Enron’s fraud (2001), the VW “Dieselgate” emissions test scandal (2015) and Facebook’s personal data privacy breach (2018). and Stacy Cooper Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration, John G.

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