Resetting CEO Reputation
It is now time for CEOs to stand up and start rebuilding reputations, thereby resetting the path to future economic progress and moral authority.
It is now time for CEOs to stand up and start rebuilding reputations, thereby resetting the path to future economic progress and moral authority.
Tom McNichol | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.
David Becker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Consumer trust in business has dropped dramatically in the last two years. A transitory marketing campaign and TV media buy is not going to win back consumers. What can work is a long-term focus on sustainability.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Given the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company, a potential $27 billion judgment possibly a month out, news of the "scandal" was seen by many as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary, if not something more sinister.
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
No one wants to be forced to do anything or dominated or made fearful or intimidated or coerced. No one. Not a horse, not a person.
Toan Lam | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Laurence and Florence Spungen and their four children sold their PEER Bearing company last fall and gave the money to employees as bonuses (some bonuses were six figures) based on years of service.
Tom Morris | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home
To favor symbolism over substance is to allow the proverbial tail to wag the aphoristic dog. And that's never a good idea.
Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.
Tom Morris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
Self-deception is such a powerful force in our lives that we cannot guarantee, even if we do spot it in action, that we'll be able to resist its subtle lure.
Carl Icahn | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
For too long and for a variety of reasons, shareholders have been complicit in allowing management excesses and incompetence by not taking a stand.
Tom Morris | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
How can there be a general ethos of solid and pervasive moral standards once more? We need good laws, and effective regulation. We need to restore an overall moral culture of accountability.
24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green
The irony of the "green" movement of US companies is that many of the firms that spend the most money and public relations effort trying to show the g...
Richard Arthur | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
It will not be painless but it is difficult to imagine it not happening -- the tools exist, corporations have proven that they need oversight and we need to protect our investments.
Tony Schwartz | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
In the midst of a perfect storm, CEO Alan Mulally has created a culture in which his team is working together closely to create a new kind of company.
Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
In a perfect world, we'd all have the time and money and resources to be able to run our businesses successfully. Unfortunately we don't live in that world.
Ron Galloway | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
In healthcare I think through sheer scale Wal-Mart wi'll prevail, and change the landscape of the industry as a healthcare "black swan."
Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
With Hertz operating in every major Middle Eastern country, one would think Hertz would recognize how utterly offensive its map is and immediately repeal its use.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
The Environmental Defense Fund is trying to help the American public understand the concept of a carbon cap system. To that end, they held a contest: ...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
There is a longstanding preemptive element to the public library: for every child or teenager with their head in a textbook or glazing through that day's homework is one less idle mind wreaking criminal havoc.
Carl Icahn | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
I await Corporate Board Member magazine's upcoming article, "How to Icahn-proof your board," with keen interest, particularly since I serve on a number of boards that apparently failed in this regard.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
The Wall Street Journal reported today on corporate goals of "carbon neutrality" and just what those goals entail. The story presents a highly skeptic...
Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
Warren Buffet says, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Ryan Mack | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business
I believe in the free market economy, but once an entity becomes "too big to fail" it introduces the possibility that government intervention is a justifiable remedy.
Margaret Blair and Ralph Gomory | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business
In the rush to globalization, the United States has tossed aside a crucial principle that guided the economic prosperity of the twentieth century: co...
Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business