This blog identified and revealed the hidden lessons in the most significant incidents of good and bad corporate behavior in the news. It has now been replaced by ETHICS MEGATRENDS, Kirk’s newsletter. Kirk began each business school class at Stanford and Santa Clara for 40 years with “business ethics in the news,” revealing what could be learned from that week’s incidents of business virtue and misconduct. This blog continues that tradition.
Kirk taught hundreds of cases on the most egregious corporate scandals of the last 50 years, but is also deeply interested in good corporate conduct, having served as the founding CEO of the Business Enterprise Trust, a national awards program for exemplary business behavior. He worked with distinguished business leaders such as Norman Lear, J&J Chair Jim Burke, Warren Buffet, Peter Drucker, Katharine Graham, Sol Linowitz, William Coleman, and others to honor more than 50 business people and companies for exceptional moral behavior.