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1. Janos Marton, “Today in NYC History: How the Dutch Actually Bought Manhattan (The Long Version),” Untapped Cities. https://untappedcities.com/2015/05/06/today-in-nyc-history-how-the-dutch-actually-bought-manhattan-the-long-version/ (accessed December 5, 2017).
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4. David Gelles and Claire Cain Miller, “Business Schools Now Teaching #MeToo, N.F.L. Protests and Trump,” New York Times, December 25, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/business/mba-business-school-ethics.html.
5. Jonathan Watts, “The Long Read Operation Car Wash: Is This the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History?” The Guardian, June 1, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/brazil-operation-car-wash-is-this-the-biggest-corruption-scandal-in-history.
6. David Gautschi, “The Liberal Arts: What Business Needs Now” (speech, Orono, Maine, May 4, 2016), Phi Beta Kappa induction, University of Maine.
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9. George W. Merck, “Medicine Is for the Patient, Not for the Profits” (speech, Richmond, Virginia, December 1, 1950), Medical College of Virginia at Richmond. https://www.merck.com/about/our-people/gw-merck-doc.pdf.
10. Michael Avari and Robert Brancatelli, “Integrating Virtue into the Jesuit Business School Curriculum,” Journal of Jesuit Business Education 5, no. 1 (2014): 71–87.
11. Nancy McLernon, “Protectionism Is a Negative-Sum Game,” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2017.
12. Jennifer Bissell-Linsk, “Nike’s Focus on Robotics Threatens Asia’s Low-Cost Workforce,” Financial Times, October 22, 2017. https://www.ft.com/content/585866fc-a841-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97 (accessed December 26, 2017).
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15. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 3rd ed. (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), 86.
16. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 3rd ed. (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), 74–75.
17. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, translated by J.A.K. Thomson. (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 1161b: “the slave is a living tool in the same way that a tool is an inanimate slave.”
18. Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, Illinois College of Law. https://law.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Aviram-July-27.pdf, pp. 10–14 (accessed January 9, 2018).
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24. Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller. (New York: Random House, 1998), 467.
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26. João Miguel Barros, “15 Observations on the Phenomenon of Corruption: An Engaged Perspective from Macau,” Union Internationale des Avocats.
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28. Stéphanie Thomson, “We Waste $2 Trillion a Year on Corruption. Here Are Four Better Ways to Spend That Money,” Weforum.org. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/we-waste-2-trillion-a-year-on-corruption-here-are-four-better-ways-to-spend-that-money/ (accessed January 11, 2018).
29. Tom Fox, “White Collar Criminals and Their Flagrant Rationalizations,” fcpablog.com. http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/2017/9/29/tom-fox-white-collar-criminals-and-their-flagrant-rationaliz.html (accessed January 16, 2018).
30. Josh Bersin, “Spending on Corporate Training Soars: Employee Capabilities Now a Priority,” forbes.com. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/02/04/the-recovery-arrives-corporate-training-spend-skyrockets/#4b6b313c5a73 (accessed January 16, 2018).
31. L.V. Anderson, “Ethics Trainings Are Even Dumber Than You Think,” slate.com. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_ladder/2016/05/ethics_compliance_training_is_a_waste_of_time_here_s_why_you_have_to_do.html (accessed January 17, 2018).
32. Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, “Ethical Breakdowns,” Harvard Business Review, April 2011. https://hbr.org/2011/04/ethical-breakdowns; Kristen Dooley, “The LIBOR Scandal,” Review of Banking and Financial Law, 32 no. 1 (2012): 2–12.
33. James McBride, “Understanding the LIBOR Scandal,” Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/understanding-libor-scandal (accessed January 17, 2018).
34. ABC News. “Barclays, UBS Among Six Top Banks Fined Nearly $US6bn for Rigging Foreign Exchange, Libor Rates.” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-21/us-britain-fine-top-banks-nearly-6-bn-for-forex-libor-abuses/6485510 (accessed March 17, 2018).
35. Institute for Business in Society, “Giving Voice to Values,” University of Virginia Darden School of Business. http://www.darden.virginia.edu/ibis/initiatives/giving-voice-to-values/ (accessed January 13, 2018).
36. Humanistic Management Center, “The Three Stepped Approach to Humanistic Management,” Humanistic Management Center. http://www.humanisticmanagement.org/cgi-bin/adframe/about_humanistic_management/the_three_stepped_approach_to_humanistic_management/index.html (accessed January 13, 2018).
37. Richard T. De George, “Business as a Humanity: A Contradiction in Terms?” in Business As a Humanity, eds. Thomas J. Donaldson, R. Edward Freeman, The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, ed. R. Edward Freeman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 16.
38. Richard T. De George, “Business as a Humanity: A Contradiction in Terms?” in Business As a Humanity, eds. Thomas J. Donaldson, R. Edward Freeman, The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, ed. R. Edward Freeman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 17.
39. John Mackey, “Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business,” wholefoodsmarket.com, September 28, 2005. http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/john-mackeys-blog/rethinking-social-responsibility-of%C2%A0business (accessed March 17, 2018).
40. IBM homepage. https://www.ibm.com/ibm/us/en/ (accessed January 13, 2018).
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