AS a professor of business ethics, I often hear students say that greed is the cause of our current financial crisis. These students are in good company. President Obama and Warren Buffett blame our ...

Researchers tested the assumption that self-interest is a universal trait of CEOs, showed that too much altruism can harm company performance, revealed the dark, self-destructive tendencies of some ...

Religion and science have long had disagreements — from Galileo, who was tried for teaching that the Earth was not the center of the universe, to battles over teaching evolution in public schools. But ...

That gut feeling many workers, laborers and other underlings have about their CEOs is spot on, according to three recent studies in the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies and the ...

How do you define greed? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed.” Since I doubt that anyone would describe ...

Greed has its advocates. In Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko claims that “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” The novelist Ayn Rand, ...