Honesty in Advertising
Here’s a somewhat odd example of honest advertising, at the hardware store near my house:
Well, it’s blunt at least. I haven’t seen the light fixtures they’re selling, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this claim…
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Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is an educator, speaker, and consultant in the realm of business ethics. He teaches at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he is Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education & Research Program, at the
Ted Rogers Leadership Centre.Chris is former Interim Director of the Ted Rogers MBA at Ryerson.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics.
MacDonald is also co-author of the (free, online) Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
He is a "Most Viewed Writer" on Quora, for the topics Business Ethics, CSR, and Ethical Dilemmas.
Chris has three times been declared one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior", and has several times been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.
He is also part of ChoicePoint, a small consultancy offering custom tools to help organizations train employees for better decision-making.
He has been writing The Business Ethics Blog since November of 2005. The blog is now exclusively syndicated by Canadian Business magazine.
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