Business Ethics: St. Jude Children's Hospital

Non-Profit vs. For-Profit Ethics
Brian Egnor
PHI 445 Personal & Organizational Ethics
Instructor Tomeka Prescott
May 11th, 2015

Non-Profit vs. For-Profit Ethics Ethics is a word we all hear often, whether it’s on the news, in class or at work, ethics is associated with the way people act. Being ethical is similar to being right or wrong. Ethics as is an organized analysis of values relating to human conduct, with respect to their rightness and wrongness (Fieser, 2012). So what do ethics mean in business? Ethics in business has the same meaning, except it applies to the operations of whole company including executive managers, employees, and stock holders. The decisions made by all of those mentioned affect the ethical sense of the company.
Jude Children’s Hospital is one of the best known Non-Profit organizations in the world. They are known for their tremendous dedication in helping to treat and find a cure for catastrophic diseases such as cancer. The research efforts of St. Jude Children’s Hospital have helped vastly in advancing the treatment and survival rate of these horrible diseases affecting children all over the world. St. Jude Children’s Hospital was started as a research hospital by the entertainer Danny Thomas. Danny was experiencing hard times not getting much work and had a baby on the way. Danny decided he needed to go to church to seek guidance. Danny visited a church in Detroit and was so moved during mass that he placed his last $7 in the collection plate. With only a few cents left in his pocket Danny Thomas prayed to the statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, for a way to pay for his upcoming medical bills. The next day Danny was offered a small part that would pay him $70. Two years later after a small amount of success Danny Thomas was trying to advance his career again. He returned to the church once again and Danny pleaded that if St. Jude would show him the way and help him get back on his feet, he would then erect a shrine to the saint as a way to show him gratitude for helping him become a success. Shortly after Danny Thomas pleaded and prayed to St. Jude his career saw resurgence and landed him several big money rolls (Simone,
As racing became more and more popular the company started producing specialty racing bikes that would win anything from laps on the dirt track, and endurance races. The people riding motorcycles were considered to be dare devils. The rebel image that was and still is associated with Harley-Davidson motorcycles is something that most companies would have stayed away from, but the Harley-Davidson Motor Company embraced it. A lot of the motorcycle clubs and or gangs around the world were started by former veterans returning from war and missing the comradery of their brothers that they fought with. Forming a motorcycle club was a way for them to get together and release the stresses of the real world that wasn’t really welcoming them back. The unfortunate part was that some of these clubs became are now known as the 1%er. The 1 percenters are the 1% who are actually a gang and unlawful. Harley shops in the 1960’s and 70’s became more of a hangout for the roughneck Harley riders and their friends (Corey, 2014). Owning a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle was like a rite of passage. If you owned a Harley you were thought to be a rebel and feared by your normal neighbor how was frightened by the rumbling sound of your