The Wall Street Journal reports on the growing trend of hiring highly-skilled stay-at-home mothers for short-term projects. It is a win-win situation: “Employers get lots of voltage, cheap, while the women get a skills update and a taste of the professional challenges they miss.”

In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: business ethicist Alexei Marcoux’s overview of the current state of the debate in the business ethics literature. Professor Marcoux spoke at Rockford College last October.

Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor CEO T. J. Rodgers debate corporate responsibility: do profits or customer service come first?

Todd Royer’s Workination: Are You Fascinated With Your Career? is a book for people in search of a new career. A noteworthy quote: “Don’t wait for others to take care of you. The days when a parent-like corporation provided step-by-step promotions based on diligence and hard work are long gone. You are responsible for your own career decisions.” Read a review of the book here.

A recent article in The New York Times reports that more colleges are now offering courses and programs in entrepreneurship, giving students the first-hand experience of starting and running their own business: “According to the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., more than 2,000 colleges and universities now offer at least a class and often an entire course of study in entrepreneurship. That is up from 253 institutions offering such courses in 1985. More than 200,000 students are enrolled in such courses, compared with 16,000 in 1985.”