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Responsible Leadership - An Ethic Of Right Behavior, C. William Pollard
Responsible Leadership - An Ethic Of Right Behavior, C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
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The Virtue Of Profit (Wheaton, Il - Second Revision), C. William Pollard
The Virtue Of Profit (Wheaton, Il - Second Revision), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
In this second revision of a speech delivered at Wheaton College's Hastert Center (now the Center for Economy, Government, and Public Policy), Pollard contends that profit can be considered virtuous when it allows servant leaders to invest in employees, thereby contributing to the moral and spiritual formation of human beings.
The Virtue Of Profit (Wheaton, Il - First Revision), C. William Pollard
The Virtue Of Profit (Wheaton, Il - First Revision), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
In this speech -- a revised version of one delivered at Wheaton College's Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy -- Pollard contends that profit can be considered virtuous when it allows servant leaders to invest in employees, thereby contributing to the moral and spiritual formation of human beings.
The Virtue Of Profit (Mclean, Va), C. William Pollard
The Virtue Of Profit (Mclean, Va), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
In this speech delivered to the Workforce Ministry Group of McLean Presbyterian Church (McLean, VA), Pollard contends that profit can be considered virtuous when it allows servant leaders to invest in employees, thereby contributing to the moral and spiritual formation of human beings.
Ethical Leadership, C. William Pollard
Ethical Leadership, C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
Pollard based this speech on an afterword he had written for Scott A. Quatro and Ronald R. Sims, Eds., Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-Suite (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2008). In it Pollard contends that businesses can be moral communities if leaders understand themselves as moral entities, dedicated to the well-being of their employees.
Management As A Liberal Art: Putting People At The Center, C. William Pollard
Management As A Liberal Art: Putting People At The Center, C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
This article was published in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of the Christian Leadership Alliance's journal Outcomes. In it Pollard provides the broad contours of people-centered leadership, noting in particular how such leadership requires interaction with the humanities and social sciences as well as the ability to recognize the spiritual aspect of the human condition.
Social Insurance, Commitment, And The Origin Of Law: Interest Bans In Early Christianity, Jared Rubin
Social Insurance, Commitment, And The Origin Of Law: Interest Bans In Early Christianity, Jared Rubin
Economics Faculty Articles and Research
Despite the historical importance of ideology-based, economically inhibitive laws, we know little about the economic factors underlying their origin. This paper accounts for the historical emergence of one such law: the Christian ban on taking interest--a doctrine that shaped the evolution of numerous financial contracts and related organizational forms. A game-theoretic analysis and historical evidence suggest that the Church's commitment to providing social insurance for its poorest constituents encouraged risky borrowing, which the Church attempted to limit by banning interest. The analysis highlights the applicability of the rational choice framework to seemingly irrational actions and laws, the role of nonmonetary …