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F11-06·F11 — Marketing Ethics & Regulation

Integration: the marketer's ethical compass

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The productive tension

Ethical marketing is either slower, costlier and less effective (the pragmatist view) or contaminated by any commercial consideration (the purist view) — it cannot be both commercially serious and morally serious

The synthesis

The marketer operates three interlocking tests — autonomy, proportionality, legacy — as a judgement discipline rather than a compliance workflow, and in doing so builds the durable trust that is the competitive moat of the trust economy

Learning objectives

  • Integrate the five prior F11 lectures into a single operating discipline the marketer can apply to any campaign, data practice or sustainability claim
  • Apply the three interlocking tests — autonomy, proportionality, legacy — to named commercial cases and distinguish ethical from merely compliant decisions
  • Evaluate named exemplars and counter-examples to identify the structural features of ethical and unethical marketing leadership
  • Argue the career case for ethics as insurance rather than risk, using careers defined by ethical leadership and ethical failure

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