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Richard A. Castleberry
A Lecturer of Marketing and Management at the American University in Kosovo (Rochester Institute of Technology), Mr. Castleberry submitted this
article.
Excerpt:

Much to the chagrin of moralists, it is becoming commonplace to witness corporate leaders behaving in a manner that leads us to believe acting ethically while making a profit is a paradox. Present day leaders are so preoccupied with the goal of profit maximization for self-serving interests that they are not considering the implications their actions are having on all affected parties. The most pressing leadership issue of today is greed, and the neglect of obligations to stockholders, and all other pertinent stakeholders. Regrettably, there are plenty of topical instances to illustrate this, in addition to ample examples dating back over the past decade.

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John Burnett
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Excerpt:

Dairy Farmers of America, or DFA, based in Kansas City, Mo., is the nation’s largest dairy cooperative. It buys milk from 18,000 farmer-members and says it tries to get them the best price. DFA controls about a third of the nation’s raw milk supply.

Dean Foods is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Dallas. With brands like Horizon Organic and Land O’Lakes milk, Dean buys from DFA and bottles more than a third of the nation’s milk.

Pete Hardin is publisher of The Milkweed, a monthly dairy marketing and economics report.

In the 30 years Hardin has been writing about the dairy industry, he has chronicled the decline of the family farm and the rise of “Big Milk.” Hardin believes the fundamental problem with the dairy industry is a lack of honest competition and too little government oversight.

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National Public Radio
John Burnett
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Excerpt:

Since the 1980s, American agriculture has become increasingly concentrated. Today, less than 2 percent of farms account for half of all agricultural sales. The new antitrust division of President Obama’s Justice Department has said that scrutinizing monopolies in agriculture is a top priority.

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Starting next year, the Justice and Agriculture departments will hold public workshops in farm towns throughout the United States to learn about anti-competitive conduct in agricultural markets.

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The New York Times
Gretchen Morgenson
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Excerpt:

But a study of changes made in pay practices by 191 of the nation’s largest companies this year shows that where pay is concerned, enlightenment remains a long way off. In other words, meet the new pay, same as the old.

The study was conducted by James F. Reda & Associates, an independent compensation consultant in New York, and it looked at proxy filings issued by almost 200 companies in the first half of 2009. The firm analyzed changes these companies made to their pay plans that take effect this year.

The biggest shock? Instead of seeing a greater reliance on long-term incentive programs, the Reda report found that changes in these companies’ plans made short-term incentive pay a bigger part of the compensation pie. Let me say that again: The plans — despite the calamities that short-term profiteering has visited on our economy — made short-term incentives a bigger component of compensation.

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Peter Steinfels
Bioethics and the health care debate: read the article here.
Excerpt:

In the early years, broad changes in health care of the sort now roiling the United States were not on the bioethics agenda. To be sure, there was a sense that the new ethical questions posed by dramatic advances in biology and medicine were fundamental to the future of humankind; yet these questions were usually framed in terms of choices facing individual patients, physicians and researchers:

Were terminally ill patients owed the full truth about their condition? What constituted genuinely informed consent for human experimentation? Who should be screened for genetic conditions, and how should they be counseled? When could patients refuse life-sustaining medical care — and what if they could not decide for themselves? Should organ donors be paid? What rewards and penalties could governments use to slow population growth? What principles should govern the allocation of scarce medical resources like (at that time) dialysis machines?

Those last three questions obviously pointed toward issues of social policy, scarcity and equity, and scholars in the field soon recognized that few issues in bioethics could be isolated from the larger framework of how health care was delivered and who had access to it.

The publication in 1971 of “A Theory of Justice”,by the political philosopher John Rawls, had a major impact on the contribution of bioethics to the health care debate, Mr. Callahan said. The ensuing discussion made justice one of the governing themes in bioethical discourse, and most of that discussion ended up criticizing the current unequal access of Americans to health care.

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The Daily Show’s John Oliver takes a look at the MBA Oath established by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School.

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