People are basically good.

This was the belief of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, writes Robert Chesnut in “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution.” In 1999, Chesnut was employee No. 170 at eBay.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...