Category: Ethics
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Wednesday March 14, 2012 In the movie Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise plays a conflicted sports agent. He writes an essay that the client, not the firm's interest should be front and center. He loses his job as a result. Today Greg Smith published a similar essay, in the New York Times no less. Be sure to click…
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Wed March 7, 2012 Allen Stanford was found guilty on 13 counts of promoting Ponzi Scheme. The WSJ has the better story than this link but surf around and you can find more. The WSJ is not accessible to all. Once again the SEC investigators found evidence and turned it into the SEC but the regulators…
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Monday Feb 27, 2012 Olympus has installed an insder as the new President and one of their bankers as cahriman. This is hardly the fresh team that outside investors have been clammoring for. This is classic govt bank industry collusion in Japan. Years ago Boone Pickens attempted to get a seat on the Board of headlight…
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Friday Feb 23, 2012 Here is the complete Bloomberg story on the Olympus Imaging Co. accounting scandal. Ethics class take note, someone is doing their case on this story.
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 I see that Whitney Houston, 48, died at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She peaked with her movie The Bodyguard and it's been a downhill slide ever since. One of the teams in Ethics class is writing a Case Study on Michael Jackson's 'doctor, an enabler for bad habits if there ever…
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 I introduced cinema as an art form Saturday evening. We then viewed The Paper Chase.It has been a while since I watched the entire movie. I do have several specific thoughts. Well other than gee we wore our hair long then. But I will withold all that. My students can…
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 Apparently story telling has fallen out of fashion in the middle and high school years. I find that few to no students know the story of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant. That is the original story about Point of View. Now I find that most of you have not…
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Saturday Feb 11, 2012 A few articles of note in the Weekend WSJ Page A 11 – Art Laffer notes states are leading a pro growth rebellion. We viewed On the Waterfront in the Ethics class, the Dems have sided wtih unions for this election when union membership is smaller and Indiana just passed a…
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Thursday Feb 9, 2012 Okay so I made up the number 1,186. We are studying ethics and past fraudulent accounting practices in ACCT 5308, Ethics. We have another candidate for Who's the Worst Yep Diamond Foods DMND CEO Michael Mendes is cleanig out his office, as Trump would say, You're Fired. Most accounting frauds…
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Thursday Feb 2, 2012 The Professionals One of my favorite movies is on Turner Classics at 7 PM tonite. The great thing about Turner classics is both Robert Osborn's interviews about the films and the fact that there are no commercials. As one female reviewer in my special edition DVD remarks, the dialog crackles among…
