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David A. Kaplan
Good article in Fortune about how business schools may be getting the message about the need for more ethics training. Read the article here.
Excerpt:

Rod Kramer thought it was going to be just another dinner at the Stanford Executive Program last summer.

An affable, popular professor at the business school, he had given his usual talks on influence and persuasion in the realms of politics and business.

Then came the wrap-up social event. But the wife of an important corporate executive — “with the help of some wine,” as Kramer recalls — lit into him “for not teaching morality to MBA students.”

That failure, she told him and then told him some more, was the cause of the global financial meltdown. It was an illustration, says Kramer, currently a visiting professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School, of how much “disenchantment” there is about MBAs these days.

Indicting business schools and management education has become a blood sport. “If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine fodder,” wrote Philip Delves Broughton in a widely cited piece in the Sunday Times of London earlier this year, “he might start with a list of those with three incriminating initials beside their name: MBA.”

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http://investor.gov/
This new site, established by the Securities and Exchange Commission, contains a section on investor fraud, with alerts and updates on specific scams

http://www.pbln.org/
The aim of the Progressive Business Leaders Network is “to help invent a more sustainable economy that fosters lasting and shared prosperity as well as social and environmental justice. This ambition requires business leaders to engage in a new way with each other and with shapers of public policy around the challenges of our times.”

http://www.merck.com/corporate-responsibility/cr-print-report.html

Excerpt:

Choosing as our theme “Advancing the dialogue toward a healthier future,” we have provided details on the challenges we face and our performance on key issues for Merck and our stakeholders.

http://content.united.com/ual/asset/UAL_CSR-web-v4.pdf

Excerpt:

Our corporate responsibility report focuses on the way we work as a team to improve our airline and better serve our customers—how we are stepping up to environmental challenges and addressing community needs, and how we work together to make every action count.

http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/values-campaigns/assets/pdf/Values_report_lowres_v2.pdf
The Body Shop’s annual CSR report.

Excerpt:

Our five core Values are as relevant today as they were when Anita first set them out – we are always looking for new ways to bring them to life. We believe that our Values are at the heart of our commercial success and they are the key to growing our business. As we go forward we will be more creative in bringing our message to customers who are searching for brands with principles that they can trust. In doing this we will deliver more positive benefits to everyone that we touch.

Fred Pearce’s Greenwash – guardian.co.uk
Fred Pearce
Read the article here. H/t to Current.
Excerpt:

The agricultural giant Monsanto may well still be the world’s most hated company. The company that brought the world Agent Orange, the defoliant of choice in the Vietnam War, followed up a decade ago with a strident push to flood the world with genetically modified crops. It alienated millions – and even its friends and rivals among GM supporters blamed Monsanto’s belligerence for putting back the cause by many years. But I’m going to ignore GMs and talk about water. And belligerence.

In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolution built around “sustainability”.

Sustainability is a much-abused term and it infiltrates almost every corner of the company’s website. But to be fair they do try and define what the word means for its business. The company promises that its “sustainable yield initiative” will “reduce by one-third per unit produced the aggregate amount of key resources such as land, water and energy, required to grow crops by 2030.”

Many analysts now see water, rather than land, as the key limitation on growing food to feed a future world population of nine billion in the coming decades. So a third more crop for the same amount of water is a valuable goal. The company trumpets especially its work to engineer more water-efficient maize.

Of course, despite the company’s public pledge to “share knowledge and technology” the company’s corporate aim is to make sure that farmers buy Monsanto-patented water-efficient seeds by the trillion.

But you would expect Monsanto to be especially sensitive about how it manages water in its own farming operations, and particularly to show concern for how neighbouring farmers are facing up to water shortages. Wouldn’t you?

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