This chapter opens with a discussion of the Boeing Company and the 737 MAX safety testing case. It explores the concepts of moral blindness and self-interestedness with reference to Adam Smith’s contribution to ethics from the eighteenth century. We consider the power of description and discuss how this can affect role responsibility though the case of Adolph Eichmann as interpreted by Stanley Milgram. We discuss and analyse the impact on ethics of Michael Walzer’s concept of thick and thin description and we explore the development of training in moral reasoning. The chapter closes with a fuller consideration of Sam Bankman-Fried’s impact on crypto currency with FTX.

This chapter introduces the topic of Moral Imagination with reference to the 1999 volume “Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making.” It opens with context setting and some cases of interest to the topic. These cases include McDonald’s in Russia, the Boeing Company and its problems with the 737 MAX; British Petroleum and the Deepwater Horizon Well disaster. Within this discussion the contents of the rest of the book are summarized in advance of reading.