Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on December 17, 2007
These are extraordinary times. After weeks of stonewalled talks, there has been a breakthrough deal at the climate change negotiations in Bali.Still claiming it was a world leader, the the US - the...
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Filed in archive corporate crime
by leon on December 16, 2007
Earlier this year, I did a blog entry explaining that the fight against corporate wrongdoing always eases up when there is a stock market bubble.The Economist confirms that argument in the piece...
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Filed in archive corporate crime
by leon on December 15, 2007
Less than a week after Siemens announced that Hannes Apitzsch was its new finance chief, the company has suddenly revoked the appointment because of concerns about a union funding scandal.Meanwhile,...
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by leon on December 14, 2007
More and more companies are now using personality testing to predict job performance. And personality testing is now a huge industry.But a new study, reported here, suggests that the link between...
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I have talked about how corporate reputation risk is on the rise. This is a high risk area because it can take years to build up a reputation, and it takes no time to destroy it.The problem is...
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Last week, I did a blog entry talking about the problems charities and other non-profit agencies face with governance.Now a new book Forces for Good by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant...
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by leon on December 13, 2007
Big week for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Earlier in the week, it sent a warning to the Big Four accounting firms by pinging Deloitte $1 million for violating audit standards. The...
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by leon on December 12, 2007
The media spends a lot of time bagging CEOs for outrageous salaries and perks. But a recent study suggests the media might be just as much to blame.The study by University of Colorado researchers,...
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Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on December 12, 2007
Worrying Deloitte survey suggests that teenagers claim they are ethical but are still prepared to lie and cheat to get ahead.While most teens surveyed (71 percent) said they felt fully prepared to...
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by leon on December 11, 2007
Interesting developments in the two big corporate bribery cases, Siemens and BAE Systems. The heat is on both companies and despite their best efforts, it's not going away.First to BAE and we...
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by leon on December 11, 2007
The breakaway success of the Chinese economy is one of the most remarkable economic stories of the last decade. No-one could have predicted that a communist state would have turned into one of the...
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by leon on December 10, 2007
In the lead-up to his sentencing, an unrepentant Conrad Black declared that jail would be a bore. Now he has just discovered he will have up to eight years of boredom behind bars.Judge Amy St Eve has...
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Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on December 10, 2007
About one in 10 people around the world had to pay a bribe in the past year and reported bribery has increased in some regions, such as Asia-Pacific and South East Europe. Bribery is particularly...
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by leon on December 10, 2007
Why do law, accounting and consulting firms break the law? Why is it that some firms go off the rails when others manage to stay on the straight and narrow?Some interesting insights from some Dutch...
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by leon on December 09, 2007
Lost in all the talk about "subprime", "credit crunch" and "securitization"? William Safire says part of the problem is the way cliches are used to numb us into not...
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by leon on December 08, 2007
Want to take a look into the future to plan your future strategy? That's anyone's guess. But Memebox.com now offers the Future Scanner, a vaguely Digg-tool that gives some hints of future...
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Filed in archive Accounting
by leon on December 07, 2007
Several weeks ago, I did a blog entry highlighting how Iraq was an accounting black hole that's vulnerable to fraud and corruption.Now we have revelations from CBS that $1 billion of military...
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by leon on December 07, 2007
The public company Accounting Oversight Board has a proposed policy statement that would allow it to rely hand over to its international counterparts inspections of non-US audit firms going over the...
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So Coca Cola has announced that it's President and Chief Operating Officer Muhtar Kent will succeed Neville Isdell as chief executive.For the record, it's worth noting that in the 1990s, Kent...
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by leon on December 06, 2007
How things have changed.Executives expect environmental issues, including climate change, to affect shareholder value far more than any other societal issue during the next five years. Their concern...
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Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on December 06, 2007
Interesting campaign being run out of Australia which could give some lessons for offices all over the world in the lead-up to Christmas.The Kick the Kringle campaign, run by Our Community which is...
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