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Current Events

          Causes and Cures of the Financial Crisis (.pdf) - Catanach

Who's to Blame - USA Today, 12/08

Boiler Room - CJR, 10/08

The End - Portfolio.com, 12/08

Saying Yes.. WaMu - NYTimes, 12/08

Frenzy - WashPost, 12/08

Sex, Lies, and Subprime Mortgages - Bus. Week, 11/08

Why Be Ethical?

Kozlowski - Bus. Week, 12/23/02

Miscellaneous Misconduct

Underwater Options - Markulla

Performance Appraisal - Markulla

Case of Due Diligence - Markulla

Justice

CEOs Cut Pensions, Pad Their Own - MSN Money, 1/18/06

Whistleblowing

Blowing the Whistle, Many Times - NYTimes, 11/2007

The Right Way - Bus. Week, 1/30/02

Watkins Blew It - Forbes, 2/14/02

The Whistleblower's Tightrope - Expose

UBS Whistleblower - Time, 10/6/09

Privacy

Employee Monitoring - PrivacyRights.org

Corporate Snoops - Bus. Week online, 10/9/06

Google Declares War on China's Censorship - Bus. Week online, 1/13/10.

Conflicts of Interest

Siemans - NYTimes, 12/08

Discrimination

Bad Think - Slate, 5/30/07

Jesperson v. Harrah's

Advertising

FTC Enforcement Policy Statement on Food Advertising, 1994

Finance Ethics

Martha Stewart - Time, 6/25/02

Insiders with an Edge - Business Week online, 12/7/06 (try printer friendly version)

Social Responsibility

Gap Factory a Danger to African Children - Times online, 8/1/09

Friedman's Classic 1970 article

Monsanto's Harvest of Fear - Vanity Fair, 5/08

The Economist, Special Report on CSR, "Just Good Business," Economist, 1/17/08

The Next Question - Economist, 1/17/08

Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business - Reason 10/05

Doing Good - Business Week online, 8/15/05 (try printer friendly version)

Friedman - Business Week online, 8/15/05 (try printer friendly version)

Nardelli - Business Week online, 8/15/05 (try printer friendly version)

Friedman - "Social Responsibility of Business" - the classic article, 1970

International Business

Chevron Complicit in Myanmar - Reuters, 4/08

Business Ventures Start with Military - SFGATE, 4/08

Bottom of the Barrel - Newsweek, 3/24/08

Prisoners of the Rain Forest - The Sunday Times, 9/03/06

Coke's Labor Struggles - Bus Week, 1/23/2006

Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops - Business Week online, 11/27/06 (try printer friendly version)

Banana Plantations - HRW 4/25/02

Coming Unglued (Fuller in Honduras) - City Pages, 2/9/00

Corporate Bribery - Bus. Week, 12/6/04

Business and the Environment

Global Warming Skeptics - EDF, 12/19/06

Exxon Chief Makes a Cold Calculation - Common Dreams (from WSJ) 6/15/05

Ethics Education

Can Business Ethics be Taught? CSM - 3/07

You Tube Videos

Friedman on Greed

The Milgram Experiment

 

 

 

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