Friday Feb 20 2015 Harry Truman is the one ex President admired by both parties. Here is a summary of his life after the Presidency. After retiring from the presidency, Truman returned to Independence, Missouri, where he wrote his memoirs, oversaw the construction of his presidential library and took long walks. He died on December…

Tuesday Feb 17 2015 The Jackie Robinson team has been stripped of its national title. National Little League determined recruiting violations.  The kids are big losers here. Another ethical loss for Chicago. 

Monday Feb 16, 2015 We had a great class in Ethics  5308 this past Saturday. I identified numerous websites about the Brian Williams fiasco, and the class really got engaged. Now Brian has lots of attention on Twitter as the public goes viral https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrianWilliamsMisremembers?src=hash And, exactly what does the word, misremembered mean, that dismisses personal…

Friday Feb 13, 2015 An all black Little League team won the national championship only to later be denied the win due to recruiting violations. The Jackie Robinson team beat the Evergreen Team 43-2.  Evergreen cried foul, noting Robinson had recruited players outside their assigned boundaries.  Chicago Team will not return trophy until it conducts its…

Thursday Feb 15 2015 We are studying corporate governance in ACCT 5308 Ethics. This article examines how various companies have globalized  their Code of Conduct. One firm shows a 50 minute film   demonstrating  how employees in various cities around the world would handle an ethical challenge. Another firm  has quarterly meetings in which teams…

Monday Feb 2 2015  Socionomics is he new predictive social science which focuses on social mood as  the engine of change in society. These articles below reflect the attempt, at least the first one, to discern changes in social mood. The mood in Brazil is so rife with corruption that a complete top to bottom change…

Monday Jan 26 2015 Here are several previous posts from  2013 on Lance Armstrong   A University of Glasgow Professor takes a look at the body language Lance Armstrong expressed on the first night of his interview with Oprah. I have said as much the same thing but interesting to hear someone outside this country with an…

Monday Jan 26 2015 At issue is whether the Patriots deliberately lowered the pressure of the footballs they used in the playoff game. This writer at Forbes suggests the balls were at the lower legal limit and the weather, very cold, caused the pressure to fall further. That sounds right to me.  This article also…

Sat Jan 17 2015 Nassim Taleb rose to fame with his Black Swan TeheImpact of Highly Improbable Events.  He has followed with other books.Today we viewed a paper titled The Financial Collapse of 2008, Black Swan or Tipping Point?  Reading this and the last post should give you some insight to what the authors meant by…

This is a re print from August 2011, looks like my speculataion about Israel and Iran did not take place. And gee, Dow 10,000 seems far away, but at any rate this post covers some of our discussion in the Acct 5308 Ethics class today.    Monday August 29, 2011 Note this is a repeat…