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The Arrogance at Enron and the Issue of Punishing Ethical Lapses by Corporations

The Enron scandal is a textbook case of how a loose atmosphere toward ethical behavior can be damaging to a company, its employees, its shareholders and its customers. To simply say that Enron executives acted unethically is to understate the gross indecency of the entire sordid series of events. What is far too easy to […]

Ethics and Corporate Scandals: How Much Do You Really Know?

What is ethics? When do we cross the line between right and wrong, and who decides when that line is crossed? Ethics can be defined as moral philosophy. Basically, “the discipline is concerned with moral good and bad, right and wrong.” The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values ​​or […]

Bigger Than Enron? There’s a New Corporate Scandal Brewing

Although there has been much recent interest in the investigation of former Hewlett-Packard (HP) Chair Patricia Dunn into H-P’s high-profile tech press and board members, there is a much larger manufacturing scandal that has largely flown under the public’s radar. It’s not as tawdry as the Hewlett-Packard scandal, and it doesn’t have the cheekiness of […]