Business ethics : mistakes and successes /

Main Author: Hartley, Robert F., 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and perspective
  • 2. MetLife : deceptive sales tactics
  • 3. Ford Explorers with Firestone tires : a killer scenario
  • 4. ADM : price fixing, political cronyism, and a whistleblower
  • 5. Al Dunlap savages Scott Paper and Sunbeam
  • 6. United Way : A CEO batters a giant nonprofit
  • 7. Tobacco : long callousness to public health
  • 8. The savings and loan disaster : managements repudiation of responsibility
  • 9. WorldCom/MCI : massive accounting fraud
  • 10. General Motors' Corvair versus Ralph Nader : triggering the age of consumerism
  • 11. Union Carbide : assaulting the Ohio Valley
  • 12. Union Carbide's Bhopal catastrophe
  • 13. Nestle's infant formula : pushing an unsafe product in third-world countries
  • 14. The Dalkon Shield : ignoring user safety
  • 15. Exxon's Alaskan oil spill : environmental destruction on a giant scale
  • 16. ITT : heavy-handed interference in a foreign government
  • 17. Lockheed Corporation : overseas bribery gone rampant
  • 18. General Dynamics : fleeing U.S. taxpayers
  • 19. Wal-Mart : a big bully?
  • 20. Nike : is using cheap overseas labor ethical?
  • 21. DaimlerChrysler : flagrant misrepresentation of a merger
  • 22. Johnson and Johnson's Tylenol scare : the classic example of responsible crisis management
  • 23. Herman Miller : role model in employee and environmental relations
  • 24. Conclusions : lessons from the past.