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    • Ethics lesson from HP

      Posted by SoxFirst

      The Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal, where board members were lying and spying, will go down as one of the big ethical meltdowns of 2006. It also has some profound lessons for corporate governance and boards around the world. Here are some of the lessons.

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    • Should severely disabled kids be kept small?

      Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

      "Achieving permanent growth attenuation while the child is still young and of manageable size would remove one of the major obstacles to family care and might extend the time that parents with the ability, resources, and inclination to care for their child at home might be able to do so," Gunther and Diekema write.

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    • HP's ethics officer problem

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Hewlett-Packard’s problems raises serious questions about the role of chief ethics officers. Are they any good or are they just window-dressing. But a closer look at Hewlett-Packard’s history shows that the problem with their former ethics officer Kevin Hunsaker was going to happen anyway. And it will happen again.

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    • Sox First: Ethics from the top: Warren Buffett's ethics lesson

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Warren Buffett has told his managers to step up their efforts to stop unethical practices. The memorandum comes a week before Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn’s indictment and one week after four of his own executives were charged with participating in a scheme to rig AIG’s accounts. Buffett knows that a fish rots from the head.

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    webdesigncompany comments on:

    Meijer to aid probe of its role in recall vote

    An astroturfing effort by a PR firm, working on behalf of retail giant Meijer, sought to unseat local officials who blocked the company’s effort to build a superstore in Acme Township

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    2:18 am 1/08/08
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    webdesigncompany comments on:

    Meijer to aid probe of its role in recall vote

    An astroturfing effort by a PR firm, working on behalf of retail giant Meijer, sought to unseat local officials who blocked the company’s effort to build a superstore in Acme Township

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    2:15 am 1/08/08
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    rwtaylor comments on:

    Ethics gaps

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    5:34 pm 9/30/07
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    jessicalynn711 comments on:

    Ethics checklist for boards

    In most companies today, it truly seems as if ethics are as disposible as paper cups. If we don’t encourage companies to have codes of ethics and actually stick by them (and not vote to suspend them to partake in unethical activities, like Enron did), the corporate world is going to get out of control. As children, we are always told that we need to take responsibility for our actions; however, some Boards of Directors seem to believe in the “Do as I say, not as I do” mentality. Why should we, as consumers, have to worry about the companies that produce the products and services that we use on a constant basis? Hopefully, some industry leaders in the corporate world will read this article and realize how truly important ethics and ethical policies are.

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    1:33 pm 8/05/07
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    yg6812 comments on:

    Vitter was a repeat customer

    Vitter was a repeat customer and will continue his illegal and immoral activity as long as he can go to his priest and be forgiven. He and his wife seem to feel that they deserve forgiveness from the American people but in the eyes of many, the hypocrisy is worse than the sin itself. We are a broadminded and forgiving nation, but when looking back on the self righteous attitudes of he and he wife during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandel, most of us feel no pity for these two.

    A religious Liberal

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    9:41 pm 7/24/07
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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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    matt

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    I am an entrepreneur and social commentary blogger.

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