Category: Ethics
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President Obama is to meet with 'fact cat bankers who caused the problems' (his phrase not mine). Yet two days ago we noted he has loaded his administration with CITI and Goldmand types who did what he is saying. The idea that Larry Summers is criticizing Wall Street is rather like the mob organizing a…
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Instead of the latest Tony Scott version, rent the original with Robert Shaw (Jaws, From Russia with Love) and Walter Mathau (yes that Walter Mathau, Out to Sea, The Odd Couple). The newer version has lots of camera motion and even more bad language whether needed or not. Interestingly the original was released in 1974,…
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The Tiger We Thought we Knew is an interesting reflection on the personna that up to a recent point, Tiger Woods had projected. As the author says, a political future after golf was a certain possibility. But now….We will be discussing such falls from grace in ethics this spring. The Wall Street Journal is always…
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Nike was nothing in golf until they signed Tiger for $60M. The bet paid off. Since then Nike has sold $800M of golf related items. Advertisers simply went dark on Kobe Bryant during his problems and will probably lay low on Tiger, he has been off television since Nov 29. His knee surgery absence however…
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I have posted some or part of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay on gifts the last several Christmas seasons. He wrote these essays from 18330-32. Note the relevance of the first two sentences. Gee nothing has changed. "Gifts"By Ralph Waldo Emerson. IT is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the…
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Conventional wisdom has it that things happen slowly we will all have a chance to react and regroup and like the hero in the movie, find out way out of a desperate situation. This however is simply not the case. Events tend to waterfall with a life of their own. Things happen slowly to a…
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Monday Dec 7, 2009 Pearl Harbor Anniversary Day Sorry I just couldn't resist the double meaning! Merrill officials got Bank of America to agree to all the Merrill Bull symbol back on their business cards. It has been used since 1974. One recalls that 1974 as the bottom of the bear in terms of absolute…
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Saturday Dec 5 2009 Yes that's Tiger Woods looking into the abyss with the tag line It's What you Do Next That Counts… Tiger has been the well paid avatar for Accenture Consulting, a spin off of Arthur Andersen before it imploded. We will be discussing social media and behavior in Ethics the spring semester.…
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Please examine and read the last few posts, this is an interesting opportunity to put it all together so to speak at the end of the semester. An old fable tells the story of two animals, one who stores food for the winter and the other does not, are adults not still acting out this…
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It turns out Nick Cage did hire a CPA, Sam Levine. Levine has countersued claiming he warned Cage it would cost $30 M a year to maintain his lavish lifestyle. Castles, yachts, nine Rolls Royces (not even a very interesting car quite frankly), gee, not as bright as he appears to be in his movies…
