Business Ethics Mistakes and Successes

Name: Business Ethics Mistakes and Successes
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ISBN: 9780471663737

ISBN-10: 0471663735

ISBN-13: 9780471663737

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert F. Hartley

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The firm that ignores ethical issues does so at its own peril, given todays world of investigative reporters, a media that is quick to sensationalize and eager trial lawyers. This text explores companies that have made past mistakes, as well as the lessons they have learned.

Book details

List price: $160.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


About the Author



Introduction and Perspective



Contemporary Violations of the Public Trust



MetLife: Deceptive Sales Tactics



Ford Explorers with Firestone Tires-A Killer Scenario



ADM: Price Fixing, Political Cronyism, and a Whistleblower



Al Dunlap Savages Scott Paper and Sunbeam



United Way: A CEO Batters a Giant Nonprofit



Tobacco: Long Callousness to Public Health



The Savings and Loan Disaster: Managements Repudiation of Responsibility



WorldCom/MCI: Massive Accounting Fraud



Classic Ethical Violations



General Motors' Corvair versus Ralph Nader: Triggering the Age of Consumerism



Union Carbide: Assaulting the Ohio Valley



Union Carbide's Bhopal Catastrophe



Nestle's Infant Formula: Pushing an Unsafe Product in Third-World Countries



The Dalkon Shield: Ignoring User Safety



Exxon's Alaskan Oil Spill: Environmental Destruction on a Giant Scale



ITT: Heavy-Handed Interference in a Foreign Government



Lockheed Corporation: Overseas Bribery Gone Rampant



General Dynamics. Fleecing U.S. Taxpayers



Questionable Ethical Conduct



Wal-Mart: A Big Bully?



Nike: Is Using Cheap Overseas Labor Ethical?



DaimlerChrysler: Flagrant Misrepresentation of a Merger



Paragons of Good Ethics Practices



Johnson and Johnson's Tylenol Scare-The Classic Example of Responsible Crisis Management



Herman Miller: Role Model in Employee and Environmental Relations



Conclusions: Lessons from the Past


Index