Winners Never Cheat: Lessons for Today's Business Leaders
In 1970, Jon M. Huntsman started a small entrepreneurial firm with his brother. By 2000, Huntsman Corp. had grown to become the largest privately held petrochemical and plastics business in the world....
View ArticleInterface Founder Ray Andersons Vision to Transform Business
Forward-thinking environmental policies and profits are not mutually exclusive, argues Ray Anderson, the founder and chairman of Interface, Inc. In fact, such policies can be good for business. In the...
View ArticleCan Empowering Poor Nations Bring Profits?
In the book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, author C.K. Prahalad argues that inclusive capitalism can serve to alleviate poverty throughout the developing world. The author, an...
View ArticleWhy Core Values are at the Center of Arthur Blanks Play-book
When Arthur Blank pumps up the players on the Atlanta Falcons football team, he doesnt trash talk. Instead, he uses a proven set of core values that will serve them on and off the field. Speaking...
View ArticleLinking Strong Moral Principles to Business Success
In Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance & Leadership Success, Doug Lennick and Fred Kiellook at the connection between strong moral principles and business success. Using original...
View ArticleWill Enron's Legacy Benefit Business?
Whether or not Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling are found guilty of defrauding their stockholders, the verdict—in the form of Sarbanes-Oxley—has already been handed down to...
View ArticleWhy Principled Leadership Brings Profit and Pride to BB&T
John Allison is not your typical chairman and CEO, and the company he leads, BB&T Corporation, a fast-growing, highly profitable financial holding company, isnt run of the mill either. The company...
View ArticleCan HP Survive its Boards Mischief?
The professional future of Patricia Dunn, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, looks grim now as she faces four felony charges stemming from the companys internal spying scandal, but professors...
View ArticleConsultant Nikos Mourkogiannis on the Need for Discovery, Excellence, and...
In Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies, author and consultant Nikos Mourkogiannis discusses how the misappropriation of the word strategy by microeconomists led him to explore the true...
View ArticleDefining and Understanding the Need for a Moral Approach in Business
Excessive CEO compensation, employee wage stagnation, and the financial shenanigans in Corporate America have provoked a debate over the need for a more ethical approach to business. As companies...
View ArticleThe Bitter Truth About Chocolate
In Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet, author Carol Off gives new meaning to the expression "death by chocolate." Off, a Canadian investigative reporter and co-host of...
View ArticleThe Other Banking Drama: Those Secret Swiss Accounts
Tax authorities in the United States have challenged long-standing Swiss banking secrecy laws, demanding that UBS AG release the names of 52,000 Americans suspected of opening secret accounts to evade...
View ArticleExploring the 'Amazing Story' of Hank Greenberg and AIG
The July 7 court victory for 84-year-old Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of AIG, might be the highlight of what has been a tough four years. Forced out in 2005 for alleged accounting...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind Corporate Social Responsibility
No matter the economic environment, corporate social responsibility (CSR) remains a factor for many companies. Whether a voluntary strategy to help benefit a firm's bottom line or a tool to placate...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad and the Exaggerated in Michael Moore's New Film,...
Michael Moore's movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of capitalism as the monster that is destroying America. Moore's villains range from Wall Street bankers to...
View ArticleFree Lunch Author Discusses Regulation, Corporate Subsidies
As California struggles with another budget shortfall, consumer advocacy and union groups have argued for a rollback of the billions in state subsidies to area businesses. But do these subsidies...
View ArticleCan an Ethical Approach Boost a Businesss Bottom Line
The scandal resulting from Toyota Motor Corp.’s failure to adequately address life-threatening malfunctions in several of its car models has once more underscored the importance of ethics in corporate...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Playing Favorites with Customers
Most companies have little problem offering perks to loyal customers. Airlines award frequent flier miles and many retail stores may offer valued customers special discounts or a first chance at new...
View ArticleFormer Michelin Tire Exec Herve Coyco on Tough Choices and Ethics
In 2005, Hervé Coyco, then president of Michelin Tire, faced the ultimate dilemma. A few days earlier, Ralf Schumacher was practicing for the U.S. Grand Prix when he crashed badly in the 13th turn, the...
View ArticleWhen Spinning Off Looks Like Cut-and-Run
In a recently published paper entitled, “The Long-Run Performance of Sponsored and Conventional Spin-Offs,” James Rosenfeld, associate professor of finance at Emory University’s Goizueta Business...
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