How can businesses and business leaders help solve the big ethical, social and ecological challenges of today? Within this context this book offers theoretical and practical approaches to making the world a better place for existing and future generations. It uses diverse, often multidimensional frames of reference and illustrates them with real-life cases to show positive solutions. The author’s broad professional background and humanistic worldview are reflected in his application of psychological and virtue-oriented theories as well as philosophical approaches. Some of the articles have an essay format, others share his experiences and experiments in his ethics classes using roleplays to cultivate empathic and prudent ethical behaviour. A primary motivation of the book is to inspire leaders as well as teachers and students of leadership and business by enriching their worldviews to see ethics as a fundamental aspect at all levels of economic activity.

Knut J. Ims is Professor of Business Ethics at the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He has post-graduate degrees from NHH and a PhD in Economics from Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities in different parts of the world and presented his research at numerous international conferences from Hawaii to Bhutan. He has been a member of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS – The Global Alliance in Management Education, and fellow of the European SPES Institute. He has taught courses at PhD level at NHH from 1983, and courses at MBA level and CEMS seminars throughout Europe from 2001. He has published a number of books, book chapters and articles in international journals.