Dr. Bettina Palazzo (business ethics expert, 2024 ICA Compliance Influencer) — 'Nothing new under the sun': Sol Price's 1975 employee promises rediscovered

Business ethics expert Dr. Bettina Palazzo — Palazzo Ethics Advisory, 2024 ICA Compliance Influencer of the Year — pulls Sol Price's 1975 statement of employee promises from Incorruptible and asks whether it's a recent purpose-driven company or a compliance-culture email. Neither: it's 50 years old. Her takeaway is that the ethical-company playbook has been proven for a century, only to be kidnapped by mainstream capitalism.

“All of those ideas about more ethical companies have been with us for at least 100 years. And most of those companies were highly successful - until they somehow got kidnapped by mainstream capitalism and perished.” — Dr. Bettina Palazzo on LinkedIn