I was given the opportunity to interview two different leaders from two different companies. I interviewed these leaders on ethical challenges that are inherent to their individual businesses. Choosing to focus on two very different companies, I hoped to be able to show major differences, risks, and even a couple commonalities between them. The companies I chose to conduct these interviews with were AdvancedMD, a Medical Software Company with 546+ employees and Prodigy Promos, a Promotional Marketing Company with about 27 employees. When comparing and contrasting the ethical issues and concerns each of these businesses face as challenges you will see some major differences between companies primarily because of their differences in size.
             Prodigy Promos is a small business that started in 2008. Prodigy focuses on a niche market focusing on businesses nationwide selling promotional products, aka "swag" for companies. With 27 employees, a factory and vendors overseas, Prodigy has the mentality and capability of taking on ethical issues and challenges head on as they arise.
             AdvancedMD is a company with 500+ employees that sells their home grown medical software to physician and billing offices nationwide. Being in the health care industry, precautionary measures have to be taken in order to deal with ethical issues and challenges that they face on a daily basis. When I asked both of these companies what the major ethical issues that their business faces daily the answers were very different. Prodigy deals with the ethics of being a small business in a niche market and not stooping to the lows of their competitors when competing over the same business. Often time's unethical things are done to gain the business of a competitor. An example of this could be, talking poorly about the competition, hiring ex-employees, or even trying to break into their ordering system. This is an example of the main ethical issue tha...