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- Green EthicsPrius DriversHere in the heart of GM country, I don't see too many people driving a Prius. However, in the last few days I have noticed 3 -- and each time something struck me: While the Prius may have been saving a lot of gasoline, the driver was driving...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
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- Green Ethics
- Yesterday, I wrote a post about how Toyota Prius buyers were accused of being liars because many bought their vehicle not for the hybrid's eco-friendliness, but because it announced their own eco-friendliness. And let me say again that I'll take a hybrid any way I can get it. If they...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Growth and green ethics don't mix - Commerce Department plan to deduct from annual gross domestic product figures the amount of natural resource depletion - Column
- The Commerce Department, whose operating expenses run $3 billion a year, is now touting one of the most brainless economic ideas of our time. In cahoots with environmental lobbies, the bureaucrats have dreamed up a new formula to calculate the gross domestic product, resulting in a "green" GDP. The...
- Research articles 1994-06-20
- Understanding Marketing Ethics
- Standards for marketing ethics guide companies in their efforts to do "the right thing." These standards help identify acceptable practices, foster internal control, and deal honestly and fairly with customers. They also ensure businesses comply with the law. Sometimes companies develop and publish their own ethical standards; other times they...
- Articles 2007-11-30
- Hunting, fishing, and the cramp of ethics in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Green Hills of Africa, and under Kilimanjaro
- Ernest Hemingway's attitude toward hunting is often understood as having become gentler in later life, though in complex ways that are difficult to sort out. For instance, should we call his approach ethical when he generally stops killing animals for trophies but continues to kill them for meat? And how...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- An attorney to trust. (Thomas Green) (Beltway Bandits) (column)
- An Attorney to Trust Don Riegle, the illustrious chair of the Senate Banking Committee, sure knows how to pick 'em. First he struck too beautiful a friendship with Charles Keating. That won him a place before the Senate Ethics Committee investigating the Keating Five....
- Research articles 1990-12-17
- Senate OKs latest version of legislative ethics bill
- Rounds of golf, Jazz tickets and similar gifts may need to be reported by legislators and lobbyists under the latest ethics bill considered by lawmakers. In fact, most gifts above $10 -- except food, which will remain at a $50 minimum for reporting -- will have to be...
- Research articles 2007-02-24
- Cultures with a conscience: do business and ethics mix like oil and water? This small New England company is out to prove it's a recipe for success
- Cultures with a conscience To Samuel Kaymen and Gary Hirshberg, issues like social responsibility and environmentalism aren't just the basis for a "touchyfeely," syrupy marketing pitch. Move over, green marketing greenhorns. These guys are serious. For the past eight years, the two owners of Stonyfield Farms have been...
- Research articles 1991-10-01
- The Zebra Crossing Principle of Ethics
- The zebra crossing is a great example of how regulation is no substitute for just doing the right thing. There used to be a zebra crossing on the road near my house. It worked. As a pedestrian, I was always grateful when a car stopped for me. As...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Blogging, Ethics and Public Relations: A Proactive and Dialogic Approach
- Do you "blog"? Does your CEO "blog"? To "blog" is to continually post one's own ideas, opinions, Internet links including those for other blogs, and so on about things on one's own website, which is called a "web log." Combine these two words to get "blog," which can be used...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Ethics beef with NAB, Elders.
- Byline: Cathy Bolt Aug 28, 2005 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Perth investment banker Charles Fear's tactics have been criticised by a group of investors trying to...
- Research articles 2005-08-28
- B-School Curriculums Made Over for Post-Crisis Era
- Those of you who read this blog regularly know that MBA programs have taken a drubbing since the economic crisis. Many have wondered: why would students want to pursue an MBA when the programs have produced unethical leaders who helped get us into this mess in the first place? Others...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Environmentalism, Sort Of
- In an effort to be more "green," my company recently began charging employees to park in the company lot as a way to encourage more employees to carpool and use public transportation.I am very environmentally conscious. I drive a hybrid vehicle, and I applaud any effort to reduce carbon emissions....
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- "Greenwashing" Advertising
- You're watching TV. An ad comes on, one of the now ubiquitous "green ads" that promises something so eco-friendly that you're internal b.s. detector goes off. You momentarily consider Googling your way to the veracity of the claim when, boom, another green ad comes on, making another claim. They're everywhere....
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Hybrid Buyers are Liars?
- A Reuters article today, which you can read on BNET, detailed how Detroit automakers are now trying to copy the "Green Halo" cache of the Toyota Prius hybrid. Now Detroit has been making hybrids for years, but they differ from the Prius because they almost always look exactly like the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- The Business of Families
- This is not the sort of question you typically address in your column, but I think it features an ethical dilemma in the business of families: My brother-in-law is a doctor, and he makes a considerable amount of money. He is very generous with his fortune, but he has recently...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Bank of America's New Ritz-Carlton
- Bank of America's first hotel, an 18-story Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte, N.C., is slated to open in October. According to a few reports, the hotel will also be built green -- it's planned to be gold-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It's also Charlotte's first five-star hotel and built...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Industry Analyst Dirty Pool (Recognize It, Then Get Over It)
- Love 'em or hate 'em ... analysts play an important role in guiding the buying decision making process in your industry. At least some percentage of your customers values their advice. The trade press look to them for perspectives on emerging markets. Regardless of your personal disdain...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Four Gray Hat Marketing Techniques
- Deciding on whether or not to adopt a black hat marketing technique is probably a no-brainer for most -- but what about those who have no moral qualms about adopting some ethically gray techniques. I'm listing these techniques not as encouragement to do them -- in fact I see it...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- The World's Most Ethical Companies
- The World's Most Ethical CompaniesEthisphere Doesn't KnowI have a problem. I work for a company that deals with a company listed on Ethisphere. From my angle, they are one of the most UNETHICAL companies, esp. with respect to the "integrity track record and reputation" category, which accounts for 20% of...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
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