My full interview with Dr. Robert Bradley is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship site. Most journalistic accounts of the Enron mess focus on the accounting manipulations toward the end and miss the politicized business strategy and public-relations corporate culture that got Enron into trouble in the first place. Robert Bradley worked […]
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We’re reading Burton Folsom’s The Myth of the Robber Barons for my Business and Economic Ethics course. In the chapter on the Scrantons who built a formidable iron manufacture in the then-wilderness of northeastern Pennsylvania, there is a description of: “Another immigrant, John Jermyn, who came to Scranton in 1847 from England and began working
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Economics professor Nimish Adhia will give a talk at Rockford College on Friday, September 24. His theme will be India’s setting itself on the road to prosperity and how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for economic liberalization to occur. For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized
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Sadly, the Gateway Arch is showing signs of corroding. The Arch is one of my favorite monuments, standing on the western bank of the Mississippi, symbolizing and inviting one to embark upon the great trek to new territory. St. Louis was part of the Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark geared up for their expedition on
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A lull before the new semester begins tomorrow. To mark the transition, a tranquil photograph from my summer vacation.
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Check out FindTheBest.com, which allows you to compare all sorts of things. The Internet gives you access to indefinite amounts of information, but how does one sort the relevant from the irrelevant? The site is co-founded by Internet entrepreneur Kevin O’Connor, who was co-founder of the very successful DoubleClick.com. O’Connor describes the thinking that led
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My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) is now out in the current issue of Teaching Philosophy. The review is behind the subscriber wall but will be publicly available eventually. From my introductory section: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics,
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Here is a nice solution to a problem. City governments are usually responsible for street signs. But they can be expensive–and this is an era of supposed budget cuts, it’s hard to impose new taxes, and so on. So why not get area businesses to sponsor the signs? Businesses will pay happily to get some
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