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Malcolm Salter's book may be the best informed treatment of Enron so far. And the questions he can't answer may be even more significant than those he can.
Wal-mart's CEO doesn't think retail can bring workers into middle class. Costco's CEO doesn't see why not.
Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.
Dan Wooldridge reports on Stephon Marbury's launch of the Starbury One sneakers for $14.98. Can Marbury's example challenge us to seek opportunities that counter a rampant consumer culture?
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Five breakthrough techniques: unconditional responsibility, unflinching integrity, authentic communication, impeccable commitments, right leadership
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A challenging vision for how world poverty can be ended in the next twenty years.
Advertising Age (Adage.com, June 10, 2008) cites a study showing “68% of consumers believe companies are greenwashing or overstating their green claims.” We all know what happens when customers believe we’re blowing smoke at them.
Dan Wooldridge looks at two articles that describe the generosity of Wal-Mart and it's impact on lifting the standard of living of people and communities. The articles suggest the idea that Wal-Mart might deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
Dan Wooldridge follows up on Jim Hancock's post on Enron: Innovation Corrupted with thoughts on how worldview trumps values in decisionmaking and the impact that has on personal and corporate life.
Ad Age asks: "Did Wal-Mart overstep its bounds with a holiay website that allows children to build a toy wish list that the retailer e-mails to their parents?
A group of computer security experts calling themselves the Zero-Day Response Team have emerged to offer third party patches much faster than Microsoft has been willing to deliver. Will ZERT spur change at Microsoft? Here's hoping...
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It is not enough when one can say, “Oh, I work, I have my trade, I set the pace.” This is not enough; for one must be concerned whether it is good and profitable to the community and if it is able to serve our neighbors...And this is why we
are compared to members of a body. [...]
John Calvin
Dan Wooldridge describes the global slave and human trafficking industry which is bigger than it has ever been in human history.
Rock star, social entrepreneur and TED Prize winner Bono talks about the business angle on saving the African continent from poverty and AIDS.
A New York Times article by Michael Janofsky resurfaced to catch our attention. When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation hints at how a growing number of self-described Christians are going to bat for the planet—and their neighbors.
The Times of London reports Google co-founder Sergey Brin has second thoughts about the price Google paid to be in China.
The Washington Post reports that Wal-Mart hired former nun Harriet Hentges for a new position called senior director of stakeholder engagement. Here's hoping she can help the retail colossus succeed at being a good citizen.
Some people laughed when Google went public with their plan to fight evil and make the world a better place. They're not laughing anymore.
The life of the godly is justly compared to trading, for they ought naturally to exchange and barter with one another in order to maintain intercourse; and the industry with which every man discharges the office assigned him, the calling itself, the power of acting properly, and other gifts, are reckoned to be so many kinds merchandise; because the use or object which they have in view is, to promote mutual intercourse among men.
Seth Godin builds a list of marketing "givens" for the new age of commerce
Council on Foreign Relations’ president Richard Haass tells McKinsey Quarterly the CEO will emerge less as a lobbyist than a diplomat in the emerging world of coordination between business and government. Watch the video and look for more after the jump...
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"Returning professional conduct to a more important role in business affairs will be no easy task. One avenue to pursue, curiously enough, was suggested by a mailing that arrived on my desk with a typographical error that I just couldn't ignore. Sent out by the Center for Corporate Excellence to announce that General Electric would receive its Long-Term Excellence in Corporate Governance award, the flyer quoted GE president Jeffrey Immelt on the importance of "sound principals of corporate governance."
John C. Bogle
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