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Tag Archives: Ethics
Wal-Mart: Always low prices? Or always low wages?
From the discussion of Wal-Mart that we had in class, it was odd to see a company that so many loves thrive from low wage labor. On the outside looking in, it is easy to be blinded by the many … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World), Equality, Ethics
Tagged Business, Ethics, Milton Friedman, Sam Walton, United States, Wal-Mart
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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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“It’s not a tumor!” – Detective John Kimble
Anabolic steroids or synthetically engineered testosterone have been referred to as a “fountain of youth”. Their use can result in increased muscle size, strength, and speed, higher athletic performance, and positive body image making them very attractive, especially to athletes … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Society, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Anabolic Steroids, Ben Johnson, Body Building, Carl Lewis, Ethics, Health, Mitchell Report, sports, steroids, utilitarianism, Weight Lifting
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Too Big To Fail (TARP)
I decided to do my final paper on the issue of “Too Big to Fail.” The saying itself is a little misleading because it is not the actual size of an institution that threatens financial stability but rather the interconnectedness … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World), Ethics, Government, Uncategorized
Tagged Ethics, financial stability, government, market meltdown, TARP, Too Big To Fail
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Write About Ethics! Win Prizes and Cash!
OK, title is sarcastic. The contest is not. I’ll help you edit if you want to take a crack at it. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Prize in Ethics Essay Contest 2012
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
The world’s ending but f*ck it. We’re still rich, right?
The past couple of weeks in MGMT 312 have seen a lot of discussion of the 2008 financial crisis. We read several intriguing articles, and were presented a case study of AIG, the insurance company that received an $85 billion … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ethics, Uncategorized
Tagged AIG, Corporations, Ethics, finance, Greed, Inside Job
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Social Responsibility of Shell
The thing that stuck out to me while reading the Shell case was the idea of the social responsibility of Shell, and how it played out in the stance of the company towards the Saro-Wiwa trial. The stance of Shell … Continue reading
A Billion Here, A Billion There
About an hour before our last class this story broke… Which I thought was quite relevant considering our investigations into AIG and Enron. I’m going to focus on the second Forbes article which talks about some of the pseudo-hypocrisy involving alleged … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Class, Ethics
Tagged Ethics, Fail, finance, Money, UBS
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Too Many Ethics Cases to Count
I was on the New York Times online earlier today and an article heading caught my eye. The article is called “S.E.C. Refers Ex-Counsel’s Actions on Madoff to Justice Dept.” and it is about the Madoff scandal and the ethics … Continue reading
Stupid Credit Agencies
I feel like credit agencies should receive more blame and public criticism for the collapse of Enron and AIG. The credit agencies did not do their job adequately and gave these companies a triple A rating when they did not … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cases (Real World), Class, Ethics
Tagged AIG, Credit Agencies, Enron, Ethics
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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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Conflicts of Interest
After reading the The Rise and Fall of Enron (B), it is remarkable how potential issues were just glossed over when it came senior management officials. Andrew Fastow (CFO) was the most obvious example of this in his role in … Continue reading
Enron
I would like to blog about how Enron was able to submit false financial statements for so many years. Since Enron was such a large player in the energy market, I would think their financial statements would be analyzed the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cases (Real World), Ethics
Tagged baseball, Credit Agencies, Enron, Ethics, financial reports, steroids
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A Loose Connection….
Empathy can be defined as “the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.” (Dictionary.com) According to this definition empathy is an intellectual process, it is something that you can learn, but do we … Continue reading
