Pro Ethics

Is it okay that Wal-Mart is going to raise insurance premiums for those who smoke? The article makes valid points about different health issues that do not raise the premiums.

Wal-Mart wants to raise insurance rates on its smokers. Will others follow suit?

The internet is comprised social media that could be detrimental to our youth as well as misleading information that cannot be seen as reliable. Media organizations are revising and reissuing ethical codes to address most of these problems.

The Era of Social Media

"honor killings" - this is the kind of thing Sam Harris (see this week's lecture) says we might be able to get past if we take a more 'scientific' view of morality. 

Tough to fire a CEO

Giving the voter more choice, is what we need.

This article is about Congress passing a Safe Chemicals Act. I think the most important statement in the article is "most importantly-serve their customers well." After all, that should be a businesses main concern.

interesting facts on global warming broke down

This article is about how we need to be virtuous and change our moral evolution. He says that 'climate change is our clarion call, our next big step.'

This article about how the Vatican accepts the use of adult stem cells in research. There are ways around using infant stem cells.

This is a good article about how we need science now more than ever.

Lucy Kellaway's Financial Times podcast is a great resource for brilliant (and often hilarious) analysis of contemporary issues in the professional world. For a good example listen to her qualified version of Lord Acton's dictum on the way in which power corrupts: "Pretenders to power are the most dangerous"

Thought this was interesting because we have talked about this in discussion, and brings up interesting pointers in which may be the end.

Always love to dig dirt up on the Yankees. Tells about all the scandal the yankees have been in the middle of.

Susan Kalla, a well-known and widely quoted Wall Street stock analyst who accurately predicted the collapse of the telecommunications equipment sector in 2000, was fired by Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. after an internal investigation into her personal stock trading, according to sources inside and outside the company with knowledge of the matter.

Adelphia Communications Corp., the nation's fifth-largest cable television company, yesterday agreed to pay $715 million to settle federal investigations stemming from rampant earnings manipulation and self-dealing by its corporate founders.

article about Eliot L. Spitzer who has reshaping the financial services industry, forcing out players he considers bad apples and extracting billions of dollars in fines from mutual fund companies, stock analysts and others in the industry.

Countinuing on my green energy kick. More example of how companies take atvantage of peoples attempts to improve the enviroment.

Interesting article about how businesses say they are green.

A study on the pitfalls of green marketing and its consequences.