Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on September 30, 2006
The question coming out of the hearings into Hewlett-Packard's pretexting scandal is to what extent executives were working together to subvert the law. If that's the case, then we could be...
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Filed in archive corporate crime
by leon on September 29, 2006
There's nothing holding back the new Che Guevara!Former Hollinger International chief and self-declared freedom fighter Conrad Black is applying to get his Canadian citizenship back .Black...
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Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on September 29, 2006
AWB executives could face charges under Australia's anti-terror laws, but what about those Footprints left by the Australian Government?In a sensational final day of the official inquiry into the...
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Filed in archive corporate crime
by leon on September 29, 2006
Interesting to watch the response to the surprisingly lighter six year sentence imposed on former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.Some days on, people are still trying to work it out, reports the Houston...
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by leon on September 28, 2006
Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has made the headlines again, coming out this week attacking Sarbanes-Oxley and saying it should be scrapped.According to the former Fed chief,...
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by leon on September 27, 2006
Don't trust anyone with an MBA next to their name!That seems to be the finding of a new study which has found that B-school students are more likely to cheat than students in other graduate...
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by leon on September 27, 2006
Last month, I examined notions about Sarbanes-Oxley principles being extended to non-profits.Now a new study from The Urban Institute reveals why extending it into the non-profit sector would be...
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Breaking the glass ceiling is not easy. According to one study, it would take women 40 years to catch up to men in the corporate world. That's assuming everything remains static on the other side...
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by leon on September 26, 2006
Economic espionage and theft of trade secrets have become big business opportunities and experts say companies might be leaving themselves wide open to information theft because they don't see...
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by leon on September 25, 2006
The web is buzzing over what can be described as the ultimate golden parachute. Yes, the stock option backdating scandal has reached new depths with revelations that cable TV operator Cablevision...
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Filed in archive corporate crime
by leon on September 25, 2006
Former Enron chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling and chief financial officer Andy Fastow are moving in very different directions in the image they are presenting to the court at sentencing.......
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by leon on September 25, 2006
Another sign of what it means to live in interesting times.risk, and not people, is now the top priority for executives, according to a survey from the consulting firm Accenture.According to the...
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by leon on September 24, 2006
Beleaguered media baron Conrad Black has taken self-delusion to a new level.Not only is he innocent of plundering millions of dollars from his Hollinger newspaper empire. He reckons he is also a...
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by leon on September 22, 2006
In the latest weird instalment to the Hewlett-Packard spying-pretexting scandal, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who was scheduled to step down in January, has left the company and...
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Just days after putting out his memo designed to allay staff concerns at Hewlett-Packard over the pretexting scandal, HP chief executive officer Mark Hurd seems to be in deep trouble with this...
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Filed in archive Ethics
by leon on September 22, 2006
What are the tell-tale signs of a business train wreck?Marianne Jennings, a professor of legal and ethical studies at the W. P. Carey School of Business, identifies seven warning signs.She goes into...
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A new breed of investor is set to turn climate change into a corporate governance issue.What's emerging is the rise of the universal owners.These are institutions and pension funds that have...
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by leon on September 21, 2006
Two key players in the AWB kickbacks scandal were on the White House guest list for US President george bush's official reception in May to honor Australian Prime Minister John Howard.Both men...
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by leon on September 20, 2006
So massive changes to Sarbanes-Oxley are in the can with a new committee stacked with business leaders and academics looking to recommend fixing the system? Think again.Securities and Exchange...
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by leon on September 19, 2006
So the new season of "Survivor", where competitors are divided into four tribes - whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics - has been condemned everywhere, including myself on this blog where I...
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by leon on September 19, 2006
Here's some disturbing evidence from a study on compliance-readiness, or the lack of it.And with more companies going to court over employee email issues, or having their own emails subpoenaed,...
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