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Author Archives: ewiewiorowski
All [we] need is love!
Love your children. That’s it. That’s my 60-second solution to changing the world.
I’m not a girl, not yet a woman…
I am in no way what I think of as a feminist (ask Alyssa if you don’t believe me).
We should all just listen to our “gut”
“An American company going into Indonesia and working with regime that killed almost 200,000 people…I know that that’s got to bother you…I don’t know you personally, but I know you have a conscience” – Michael Moore to Phil Knight (Nike’s CEO) … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Equality, Ethics, For Fun
Tagged Decisions, Emotion, Empathy, Ethics, exploitation, Nike, Phil Knight
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Answer me these questions three….
1) Which exhibit in the Kiva Case added most to your understanding of the reading? 2) How does Nozick’s consideration of history/past experiences tie into the Campaigns and Movements article by Richard Rorty? 3) How would Donatella de Porta, et … Continue reading
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Define “we”
Jordi has mentioned that society is a complex body that cannot easily be defined, spiking my curiosity to investigate this idea further. Furthermore, in order to write from the perspective of society, we must first understand what is meant by … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Society
Tagged Complexity, Globalization from Below, Public, Reliability, Society
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Saving an American Treasure: All Businesses Are NOT Bad!
Last year, around this time, I woke up to the news that Bucknell University was buying the Campus Theater. Now I must explain to you that I have been going to the campus theater since my freshman year. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Business, For Fun
Tagged Breakfast at Tiffanys, Campus Thater, Old, Profit, Restoration
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Third World America?
Can a country reverse its growth? Because it seems that the United States of America has been. While globalization is helping many countries worldwide develop, America itself is suffering. As a whole, the US is massively in debt to other … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Government, Society
Tagged debt, Development, Growth, inequality, Poverty, Unemployment
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Are all Businessmen Bad-Guys?
I found our discussion in class last Thursday, regarding whether or not a business can be ethical in its actions, extremely disturbing. To me, this isn’t a question. Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t we as people – … Continue reading
Who is to blame?
Can we really blame Nike entirely for their exploitation of overseas workers? Can we blame Shell for their exploitation of Nigerian resources? Ethically, I still firmly believe that these companies have a responsibility to the community affected by their actions. … Continue reading
Growing Up
Reading one of Jordi’s classes past blogs, I came across this post. It discusses the importance of employees to the workplace, using a financial example that states that the majority of the cost of building a business goes into maintaining … Continue reading
Posted in For Fun, Social Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Money, People, Play, Society, Work
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Getting Started
(This was posted two weeks ago but in the wrong blog…) I have been thinking about something that was mentioned in the “utilitarian” article since I read it yesterday, and again more intensely since class today. I am not convinced … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, For Fun, Uncategorized
Tagged Empathy, insurance, utilitarianism, value
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AIG vs. Enron
When reading this week’s case, I could not help but notice the similarity between the downfall of AIG and the collapse of Enron from last week. Enron had, in my opinion, a poor business model to begin with as was … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Ethics, Uncategorized
Tagged accounting, AIG, Enron, Ethics, failure, policy
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The Social Responsibility of Business
The article, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits” initially seemed to describe exactly the ethical obligations of the people working for a business and I was confused as to why the author was distinguishing between a business … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Social Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, CEO selection, Profit, Responsibility, Short-termism, Society
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