Lou Cartier

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last month in this space, Harvard’s “happiness” expert sparked a reflection on complementary “pillars” of faith, family, friends and work that support deeper human connection in our lives. I was encouraged by its potential to spur truer alignment of one’s personal values with expectations of the job.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The deepening fall semester brings an evergreen challenge to both instructor and students — how best to reconcile one’s personal beliefs with often conflicting demands of the workplace and its multiple stakeholders. The application of moral philosophy to ethical decision making at work is an inexact concept, to be sure.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A major benefit of writing this column is the way it sharpens my teaching life. Blessed to remain active in the online classroom, I welcome the challenge to unpack “business ethics” and other fundamentals with a fresh crop of explorers — a while longer. This month, let us consider values, personal and institutional. Lou Cartier (Courtesy/Lou Cartier) Whether as spouse, parent, neighbor, or citizen, values inform our choices.