Corporate Greed

If Corporations Are People, Do They Have Hearts?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 06.04.2012

Read More: Politics, Wall Street, Shared Values, Corporate Greed, Corporate America, Corporations, Doing Good, Sherwin Williams, Business News

In the past ten years, American business has been deluged with concepts emphasizing social good that range in name from cause-related marketing to sustainable value and other similar terms.

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Business Should Be About Green, Not Blue (Noses)

Marty Robins | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Economic Recovery, Corporate Governance, Yahoo!, Corporate Greed, Best Buy, Business News

Let's put the focus and accountability on whether CEOs are making good business decisions and not on their resumes and personal behavior.

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Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly

Dave Helfert | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Democratic Messaging, Republican Messaging, Corporate Social Responsibility, Democrats, Corporate Greed, Republicans, Politics News

Why don't Democrats use the same skills that work so well in campaigns to tell their story after election day? It's in their nature to believe they can persuade the public with facts alone. But, if they don't want to become a permanent minority, that nature has to change.

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A Prayer To Jesus From An Admiring Skeptic

Allan Brawley | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Corporate Greed, Gospels of Christ, Religion and Politics, New Testament, Christianity, Prayer and Meditation, Teachings of Jesus, Religion News

Jesus, if you are truly divine, all knowing and omnipotent, please do something about these so-called Christians. I know it's a bit presumptuous of me to be petitioning you this way, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

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Don't Believe the Hype on Corporate Bribery

Brandon L. Garrett | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Corruption, News Corp, Walmart, Wall Street, White Collar Crime, Corporations, Corporate Bribes, Corporate Bribery, Walmart Bribery, Biomet, Siemens, Corporate Greed, Wal-Mart, Crime News

Corporations can be prosecuted as criminals and every year some get convicted of crimes. However, over the past decade the government has not stepped up corporate crime enforcement. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary.

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Is Walmart Too Big, Powerful, Influential to Obey the Law?

Richard Trumka | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Corporate Greed, Bribery, Wal-Mart, Child Labor Laws, Mexico, Business News

This week's reports about Walmart's practices in Mexico are breathtaking. The Times found "credible evidence that bribery played a persistent and significant role in Walmart's rapid growth in Mexico."

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Why Anyone Should Care That Bill O'Reilly Calls Me a Communist

Robert Reich | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Globalization, Fox News, Corporate Greed, Income Inequality, Corporations, Bill O'Reilly, Civility, Politics News

So many Americans are so angry and frustrated these days -- vulnerable to loss of job and healthcare and home, without a shred of economic security -- they're easy prey for demagogues offering simple answers and ready scapegoats. Take, for example, Bill O'Reilly.

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A Winning Message for Sports and Business -- Restore Credibility!

Sanyin Siang | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Sports, Corporate Greed, Bounty Scandal, Saints Scandal, Reshaping Image, Business, Wall Street Greed, Wall Street, Business News

Can we entrust Wall Street with our finances? Are professional athletes really competing and thus deserve their fan's passion, time and money? It all boils down to trust. Here are few steps towards re-building this credibility.

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Water Is Life, Deepwater Horizon Is Death, We Create Hope

Jacob Devaney | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Permaculture, Hope, Water, Environment, Deepwater Horizon, Native Americans, Climate Change, Green Living, Corporate Greed, Gulf Oil Spill, Video, Green News

Corporate greed and systemic corruption must be addressed at all levels of society if we desire to leave a legacy of hope for the next generation.

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Corporate Profits or Healthy Babies?

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Nutrition, Health, Corporate Greed, Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Childhood Nutrition, Commercialism, Parenting, World Health Organization, Culture News

American society is not sufficiently supportive of breastfeeding, and the everyday realities of many new mothers' lives make exclusive breastfeeding very challenging.

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Inspiration as Currency, and Interview With Bret Blevins

Jacob Devaney | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Social Media, Art, Social Entrepreneurship, Mindful Living, Media Criticism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Technology, Corporate Greed, Culture, Inspiration, Video, Healthy Living News

The birth of independent media, and the democratization of the media through the digital revolution is a hopeful sign for the return of art for the purpose of enriching the community, personal expression and shaping the future of our culture in a healthy and inspired way.

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My Drug of Choice Is "More": Getting Real About Wealth Addiction

Jed Diamond | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Addiction, Wealth Inequality, Corporate Greed, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, 99 Percent, Wealth Addiction, One Percent, Ninety-Nine Percent, Ows, Culture News

I've been treating addicts for more than 40 years and when I hear the descriptions of those for whom millions and billions of dollars in wealth drives them to want more and more, I know we're dealing with addiction.

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Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Chevron, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Greed, Green News

Bottom-line, these dirty corporations don't need any more handouts, bailouts, or subsidies. Our country does not have a money problem; it has a priorities problem.

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Capitalism's Dirty Secret: Corporations Don't Create Good Jobs Anymore, They Destroy Them

Lynn Parramore | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Jobs, Corporate Greed, Corporate Responsibility, Job Creation, Corporations, Small Business, Business, Business News

The truth is that unfettered corporations are just about the worst thing for creating decent jobs. Here's a look at why, and where the good jobs really come from.

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Whose Corporations? Our Corporations!

Ken Jacobson | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Shareholders, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Greed, Business, Corporations, Al Franken, Business News

Historically, corporations were understood to be responsible to a complex web of constituencies, including employees, communities, society at large, suppliers, and shareholders. But in the era of deregulation, the interests of shareholders began to trump all the others.

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How High CEO Pay Hurts the 99 Percent

William Lazonick | Posted 06.04.2012

Read More: Say on Pay, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Excess CEO Compensation, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

It is about time that we took control of exploding executive pay. It is not just that the sums involved are unfair, and as history has shown, will only become more obscene. These executives control the allocation of resources that represent the well-being of the 99 percent.

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The Joy and Growing Pains of Occupy

Kanene Holder | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Corporate Greed, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Bloomberg, Nypd, Liberty Square, Zuccotti Park, Anniversary, Wall Street, M17, Impact News

Clearly, the current iteration of America doesn't want us to be seen or heard. What would our Founding Fathers who fought so fervently to ensure protection against tyranny say?

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Starbucks CEO: 'We Cannot Wait For Washington'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Howard Schultz, Video, Cnn, Starbucks, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Greed, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Tonight, Partisan Politics, Business News

One captain of industry says it's time to put the nation's economy ahead of corporate profits and partisan squabbling. Starbucks CEO Howard Schult...

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The Mass Murderer, the Multi-National and the Mega-Bank: Where Are the 'Good Guys' in America?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Profits, Ibm, America, Values, Ethics, Kindness, Doing-the-Right-Thing, Business, Fairness, Greg Smith Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith Resignation, Ibm-Holocaust, Corporate Greed, Greg Smith, Business News

Will America continue to be a "good guy" nation in our own eyes and the eyes of the world? Or will some businesses lead us into a downward spiral and will average Americans allow ourselves to be swept up in it?

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We Should Raise Corporate Taxes (Not Lower Them)

Harlan Green | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Profits, Corporate Taxes, Income Inequality, Professor James Livingston, Corporate Greed, Warren Buffett, Business News

Raising corporate taxes -- or closing all the loopholes -- is a first step if we want to create a sustainable recovery, rather than more busted bubbles.

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Generosity or Greed -- It's a Matter of Choice

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Generosity, Greed, Sasha Dichter, American Greed, The Highest Good, Corporate Greed, Oneness, INSIDE OUT, Caring, The Golden Rule, Nipun Mehta, Compassion, Outside In, Happiness, Mindfulness, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

When we look outward instead of inward, it is easy to become disconnected from a deep sense of the relevance of our being and our connection to one another.

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Corporations in a Lorax State

Tamara Belinfanti | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Short Terminism, The Lorax, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Greed, Dr. Seuss, Corporations, The Lorax Movie, Business News

While the environment does play a central role in Seuss' tale, an underlying tension in the book, which links directly to our current economic woes, is the tension between short-term profit seeking activities, and long-term value creation and sustainability.

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Ten Valentine's Day Cards From the 99 Percent

James Napoli | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Jobs, We Are the 99 Percent, Health Care, Occupy Wall Street, Corporate Greed, Valentine's Day, Corporations, Economy, Slidepollajax, Comedy News

Now that it's officially halftime in America, perhaps we will see some changes soon. In the meantime, those of us who are struggling through, battling against or just doing our best still need to spread the love on the most romantic holiday of the year.

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Stopping a Citizens United on Steroids

Rep. Ted Deutch | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Ted Deutch, Republican National Committee, Constitutional Amendment, Corporations, Super PACs, Occupy Wall Street, Mitt Romney, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Personhood, Florida, Citizens United, Newt Gingrich, Campaign Finance, Rnc, Money in Politics, Billionaires, Corporate Greed, Politics News

Amending our Constitution is not easy, but the ability of corporations and the super wealthy to drown out the will of the people is the defining struggle of our time.

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Bad Bankers, Bad Fraud Deals, and the President's 'Great Gatsby' Problem

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Settlement, Barack Obama, Foreclosure Crisis, Wall Street, Robo-Signing, Robo-Signing-Debt-Collectors, Corporate Greed, Foreclosure Fraud, The Great Gatsby, Politics News

Bankers are today's Jay Gatsbys. They're shady figures who have adopted a veneer of respectability, yet remain relentlessly, ruthlessly, and sometimes illegally self-interested.

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