One year after becoming CEO of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson faced a leadership test when two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks. The men were waiting to meet a business associate, but ...

Across industries and disciplines, across corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, and across various roles within various organizations, many of us are being encouraged to use generative AI ...

Alexander Filipović is a German ethicist specialising in media and digital transformation. He is Professor of Social Ethics at the University of Vienna and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Centre ...

John Pelissero is a political scientist and is the former director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. But all too frequently, ...

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Executive summary: This article provides direction for the development of the workplace virtue known as cultural humility. It defines employee experience, including employee community curation, and ...

Increasingly, universities are collecting and analyzing student data for a variety of purposes. At the University of Arizona, for example, a researcher analyzed the swipes of student ID cards at ...

The director of Santa Clara's LEAD program discusses the power of connection and conversation in building community.

Fair play, victory earned through internal factors such as skill, strategy, and effort, becomes blurred when science and technology offer shortcuts to success. Lance Armstrong, once revered as the ...

Being from Hawai’i, I’ve seen firsthand how geographic location contributes to inequities in the organ transplant system. For example, over the past eight years, 604 kidneys were donated locally in ...

Created in the Fall of 2024, Bucky's Closet is Santa Clara University’s student-run on-campus free thrift store. It serves students, staff, and faculty by repurposing second-hand clothing, shoes, ...

Hermon Welde is a public health science major and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. There is no genetic ...