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Yesterday, ExxonMobil announced its 2005 profits–the largest of any corporate entity in any year in history. $36.13 billion, of which $23.2 billion was distributed to shareholders (up $8.3 billion over last year’s distribution. The company obviously feels embarrassed by its riches. The press release, linked above, is full of all sorts of justifications and rationalizations. [...]
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Let’s see…if I’m not mistaken, it is now 2006. If I recall correctly, we are talking about an indictment that was handed down in 2004, for crimes allegedly committed in 2001 and earlier. You’ve got to wonder–would it have taken so long to come to trial if Ken Lay hadn’t had so many “friends in [...]
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I’ve been quietly following the James Frey flap for a couple of weeks now. This is the guy who got Oprah’s endorsement for his “memoir” of addiction, jail time, and so forth (I will not make it easier to locate by naming the book here)–only it turned out to be fiction. When this was revealed, [...]
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We’ve all shared a laugh as improbable images cloned together in Photoshop make their way across the Internet. The problem is that image manipulation can be used very unethically–to fudge scientific results, for example A Boston Globe story documents how editorial staff at the Journal of Cell Biology is running all submitted photos through Photoshop [...]
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A bit off-track for this blog, but this has to be shared: these pictures of elephants, eagles, whales, etc seem so human, and the organizers claim they’re unretouched. Those in southern California may want to seek out the exhibit in Santa Monica. I pass on the post from my good friend Nenah Sylver: Subject: Ashes [...]
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This from a financial currency exchange newswire: A corporate scandal involving Livedoor, a Japanese high tech company caused such a big drop in the stock market that trading had to halt on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. People get hurt when other people cheat. Ethics crimes are not victimless. Just ask those poor Enron employees who [...]
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​​​​I have a lot of respect for media coach/PR queen Susan Harrow, author of one of my favorite PR books (Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul) and the go-to person if you want your author on Oprah. I’ve subscribed to her newsletter for years and it’s one I actually do read. Susan’s launched a new [...]
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Nice remark from another copywriter colelague, Mordechai “Morty” Schiler, in his blog: While I’m still grappling with integrating marketing and principles, Shel Horowitz has made a career of balancing the two. I’m hoping his “grappling” will lead him to sign the Business Ethics Pledge; I know from past interaction that he’s a highly ethical person, [...]
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The New York Times reports that China pressured Microsoft to take down a blog that mentioned a journalist strike at a Chinese paper following the firing of a journalist. The blog was hosted on a server in the U.S. Mr. Zhao said in an interview Thursday that Microsoft chose to delete his blog on Dec. [...]
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Name: Shel Horowitz
Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
A blog about business ethics from Shel Horowitz, expert on Green principles and business ethics as success drivers. This blog covers the intersections of ethics, politics, media, marketing, and sustainability.
About Shel: Copywriter, marketing and publishing consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of seven books. The three most recent are Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, and Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy world.
Shel specializes in affordable, ethical, and effective marketing for authors, publishers, small businesses, nonprofits, and community groups.
He's currently engaged in a campaign to get 25,000 people to sign--and spread--the Business Ethics Pledge: www.business-ethics-pledge.org
Are Progressives/Liberals Finally Reclaiming the Values Turf?
January 15th, 2006 · Comments Off · General Commentary, Other
I went to a bookstore the other day and noticed two books prominently displayed on the same front table: Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis, by none other than former President Jimmy Carter, and a Beacon Press anthology, Global Values 101, featuring such well-known progressive thinkers as Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Robert Reich, and Lani [...]
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