...companies who are doing it well and are generating consumer loyalty,'' Swenson said. W. Michael Hoffman of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., agrees. ''If you have an ethics and compliance program in place...

...certainly seems not to pass the ethical stink test," said W. Michael Hoffman, executive director for the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham. Generally, such arrangements mix guaranteed payments with incentives based on...

...byproduct of an economic system that rewards the pursuit of self-interest, said Daryl Koehn, director of the Center for Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. What's new and disturbing, she said, is that corporations and...