tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203132692012-01-12T21:41:44.347+02:00A Cautious Approach To Our Lives.Murathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01507660783382534266noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20313269.post-39088721150809283692009-05-24T21:15:00.003+03:002009-05-24T21:18:54.235+03:00

Here is a great piece with respect to the article that I've published last year. I've been tied up for the last "12 months", so here you go with an edition of a quick hit from the web's best b-ethics blog. Enjoy.Here's a smart & balanced piece on executive compensation by Ray Fisman, writing for Slate: Comparison Shopping: The real reason CEO compensation got out of hand.The popular (and populist

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What did The Economist ask? (From “The World in 2008” print edition.) - December 2007"The fastest-growing wealth funds are being built by Russia and China and some of the bigger ones are in the Middle East in countries like Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which might be friendly now but cannot be guaranteed to remain so for ever. What happens if those funds take stakes in defense companies or energy groups:

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Greed is on the headlines again. Corporate brainiacs have given full weight to their firms' short term profits and their short term “wealth” instead of exercising the main cause behind the understanding of a “business” and here we are wrestling with another crisis. Used leverage, earned fees... Used leverage, earned fees... Nobody ever dared to question the consequences in the long-run because

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Last summer, The Securities and Exchange Commission sent letters to some hundreds of companies asking the way they described executive compensation. But now, The SEC doesn't seem so happy with the answers it has received so far. This is of course, due to the reason that some companies may not want to uncover some of their secrets related with individual (CEO) compensation so they switched to

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As the worries for a slowing global economy following the US's continue, with effects on many markets in the world, (European) markets started the day with another write-down report subject to an amount of $7.16 billion. Wall Street Journal on the story:The bank, France's second largest after BNP Paribas SA, revealed early Thursday that it had detected a case of "exceptional fraud" due to a

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As “green investing” is getting more popular everyday, importance of the reports which we rely upon for these green investments are getting under more scrutiny. But sustainability reports issued by the companies has some notable flaws regarding both regulational and applicational issues:1- Sustainability reports are voluntary in many countries including the world's greatest energy users America

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Happy new year! I guess that it would be a nice idea if I would sum up some major events that appalled me in the year 2007. (You know, it's like custom for a blogger to make one of these lists – or not...) There were many many things actually both in the business and pop(ular) realms but here are some that (might have) changed the way we look at the world and future because of the deep wounds

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Since motivation has become a marketing tool by the manufacturers directed to the distributors of their goods, many industries has been under scrutiny for their approaches on this “motivation” being provided. Without no doubt, pharmaceutical industry is one of them. Although it seems a little bit ironic for such a noble industry which provides medicines and vaccines that save lives and prevent

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 I've just seen this on the news tonight and I must say that this is some typical scene for the holiday season which goats, sheep and cows were slaughtered for family feasts commemorating the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God. This is a religious action as you can see, which needs some special moral and humanitarian approach to the animals getting ready for slaughtering

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Many investment and commercial banks have suffered a lot from the recent mortgage meltdown. In this liquidity driven crazy world, they significantly increased their positions in secondary mortgage markets through CDOs and when the homeowners with poor credit histories defaulted, they paid these actions’ costs by serious write-downs. But these write-downs are only the financial costs paid. What

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This week, during the trainings for my new job, there was something that has been crossing my mind: “global economic integration”. A lot of partners and managers –most of them with major international experiences- have talked about globalization and how the firm’s working environment is a monolithic international body which makes you feel like you are working at an office thousands of miles away

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I'll be back with fresh material in September... Aloha!

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I'll be busy dealing with my finals at school throughout all of June. I hope to see you back around in a few weeks. Bye for now...

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From the March 17, 2005 Wall Street Journal editorial page:"In fact, it is the world's dictators who are the chief causes of world poverty. And it seems to us that if anyone can stand up to the Robert Mugabes of the world, it must be the man who stood up to Saddam Hussein."Yes, everybody have seen how he stood up. The World Bank, according to the Journal, would only succeed and achieve (or "hit"

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The Corporate Library, an independent agent serving its clients with risk assessment, business development and research and analysis on issues such as corporate governance and executive compensation, has just published a (second actually) study of executive incentive compensation which reveals that twelve large U.S. companies display the most pronounced gap between pay and performance. There are

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Well, for those who doesn’t have any idea on who Randall L. Tobias is I have a couple of things to say. First of all he is (was actually) the first United States Director of Foreign Assistance responsible for overseeing all foreign assistance activities of the U.S. Government. He was also responsible for carrying over all U.S. international HIV/AIDS assistance and coordinating the efforts of the

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Now, here is a college story on accepting gifts from alumni:The incident took place in California State University, Fullerton. An alumnus agreed to give $3m (rose to $4.5 Million with construction costs also rose), to the school toward the construction of a new building that would carry his name, but later on it was revealed that right after our contributor, Steven Mihaylo, made his gift, his

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Well; after my post on disposable batteries, one of my readers has sent me this link. You'd better check it out. Considering that the battery producers do not take any action, it's a nice idea for you to get the lead... 4 Battery Solar Charger

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From the Turkish Daily News:“Starbucks Turkey, which operates 67 shops in six cities around Turkey, gives coffee grounds to be used as fertilizer for free to everyone that asks for it. The staff refills the raw coffee bags with the coffee grounds of all the coffee sold that day. At the end of the day these bags full of coffee grounds are available free of charge for anyone who wants to take them

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How about this? Collezione, one of the most preferred brands among shoppers with low-medium income level in Turkey, has announced that they closed their three production facilities in Kirklareli, Turkey leaving 450 people unemployed."Due to global warming, knitwear is not attracting enough costumers. This phenomenon, combined with our competitors' changing policies, has pressured us to stop our

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We have another joyful letter from Warren Buffet, CEO of the Berkshire Hathaway Corporation. As usual he addresses the company’s shareholders in a good-humored and honest way and just couldn’t stop himself from rhapsodizing about the infamous debate over the CEO compensation in the States.“I mentioned last year that in my service on 19 corporate boards (not counting Berkshire or other controlled

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So, here is a question that I’ve been thinking of. Is it against social/environmental responsibility concept for a battery manufacturer to go on selling disposable cells rather than producing-selling rechargeable batteries? I sense an ethical story here because of the reason that after people exhaust the recent batteries in their hands and shoot it off to the nature, they, naturally, go to the

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So, I guess it’s my turn to say something about the most popular debate of our modern times, Global Warming. I’ll try to express my thoughts with respect to the study the link to which you’ll find below.The thesis of the Washington-based Center for Economic Policy Research has an interesting point of view on the issue. The title is “Are Shorter Work Hours Good for the Environment? A Comparison of

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Something I’ve just come across in a sports show on TV... They were presenting a list of interesting events happened in the world of football in year 2006. And this really attracted my attention.What exactly happened was, Manchester City (U.K.) footballer Ben Thatcher knocked his opponent, Pedro Mendes, as they ran to get a loose ball, made him smash into the advertising boards rendering him

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When we think about an indicator for corporate performance, “Share price” is the first that enters briefly into our thoughts. If it’s on an increase, we know that the things are going O.K. inside that corporation, and people do buy the share. But, if we’re talking about a decline here we may not be so sure about the way the business is shaping up its operations. It may mount up this decline, and

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I wish everybody a Happy New Year with their loved ones. Hope we all have a healthy, prosperous and of course an ethical 2007.Links:http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyear.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar...

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As Christmas approaches, people (as usual) want to make their loved ones happy by buying the best present they could. This is probably the most powerful thing that makes Christmas a season to celebrate for the kids, the shop owners and the whole business cycle. Buying, consuming cherishes the soul of every single special day in our “green” lives, doesn’t it?No, not going to write something like “

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“Can you really change the world just by buying certain foods?”This is the question asked in one of the latest issues of The Economist magazine. For the inpatient ones, I must say, the answer is a big NO.The article gives this answer in 3 parts, stating that organic, fair-trade and local food is not ethical or beneficial in the long-term at all. As a man who has always thought that “organic food”

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From Chris MacDonald's acknowledged Business Ethics blog..."Most Neglected Business Ethics IssueHere are the results of the 2nd contest of my blogaversary, which ran on Nov. 21.The question I posed was this: "what is the most neglected business ethics issue you can name?"The result was a tie between two very thoughtful entrants.The first winning entry was fromMurat Sen, of Istanbul, Turkey. (FYI,

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Answer #2: Business Ethics is Not Religion.It, in the first place, makes no real sense to construct a business on religious orders. BUT, if we could get little assistance form those holy orders it may do the trick like the Jewish Businessmen example. But why it works in the Jewish example is for the reason that those rules (thoughts) really match our generally applicable (the ones that we really

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This time I’ll be trying to specify the common pitfall which people struggle while setting the boundaries of (Business) Ethics. Question: Does not Business Ethics involve law, religion and sacrifice? Argument: If we obey the rules of the legal system of the state which we are living in and the orders of the holy book that we believe, wouldn’t everything be so great with (plus) some sacrifice?

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Now, let’s get a little bit theorical (for a few posts) and let me publish some simple material so that “most of” us will find answers to (our) common questions we face in contemporary business ethics. I would like to do this in a basic “Q&A&A” method, week by week so we’ll move on from subject to subject in every post. I would also appreciate if you guys feed me back on those issues whether you

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After hearing the latest news that former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling has been sentenced to 24 years, some people thought that justice has been served and some thought that it was not a really fair sentence. What I thought about this conviction when I first heard it was, that it was neither a fair nor an unfair decision the court gave. But it was a “dubious” decision partially (or fully) affected

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Yes, he really is a great man for me. Not because he is the greatest philanthropist of the United States history, or a senior executive with such great values that he is O.K. with only a $100.000 salary a year. He is a great man and a leader because he knows what to do “when” and “how”. The memo below has been sent to the managers of the Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, called as the “All-Stars”,

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As China is doing still pretty well with all of those production and exports, it is not a big secret anymore that she has got lots of homework to do on business ethics and corporate governance. And it is not only the business environment of the country we are talking about here, it is also the same for the social and cultural life – the country as a whole. Corruption is seemed to be diffused all

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After weeks of speculations, the deal has come to an end and Google agreed to pay $1.65 billion for the quickly grown popular web-site YouTube. The parties have been stated as "natural partners"for the reason that "The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"

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Today at my Economic Analysis class, I was busy thinking what to write for my web log while the instructor was telling us the importance of philosophy in economics and how much philosophical depth she wanted to see in any exam paper or assignment. At the time when she made a fiddling reference of economic philosophy to business ethics, I thought that it would be great to try to see the link

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I've been away for a couple of weeks because I was very busy dealing with scheduling a decent program for my school and work days/hours. I was so focused on this so I wasn't really in the mood to publish anything. (Made a lot of research though...) Plus, I sold my desktop PC to a guy in another town so I was also trying to conduct this very transaction and as you may notice, I was without a

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Once again we are up against a new piracy problem in the internet. A piracy problem which all copyrights and personal rights are ignored and assailed. As modern media changes the way it works day by day it is almost inevitable to track down it's limits and contents. I’m talking about “YouTube” the most popular online video-sharing company, with the tagline “Broadcast Yourself”. As it says in the

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Just to broaden the idea behind the famous (at least here in this blog) statement saying, that it has become clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity, I’ve been trying to figure out if ethics and leadership are really something “teachable” or not.* As usual, during my search sessions, I’ve stumbled upon some interesting stuff on the issue and plus an interview with “

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According to an independent research done by LRN Corp. , which is a governance, ethics and compliance management consulting firm located in Los Angeles, CA, more than one in three employed Americans have actually left a job because they disagreed with a company's business ethics. The interesting study provides clear evidence on the fact that people in fact do give a “thing” about business ethics

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After reading about Floyd Landis’s doping case lately from several sources, I’ve started to think about this doping and cheating problem in sports. The Seria-A scandal, “The Calciopoli” might also have boosted this feeling inside me to think about this issue much more.At the first place, we really have to think what sports are about. Is it only an entertainment for the fans? Looks like it,

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I’ve been reading the book “Ethics Incorporated – Top Priority and Bottom Line” by Dipankar Gupta, a Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social System, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and really enjoying lots of wisely said stuff in this piece. There is this little “kind of” comparative analysis which goes like this:Morality is about the SELF, and about attaining high levels of

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As many of you will remember, I have mentioned about the “Jewish Business Ethics” at one of my blogs in March 2006. I’ve stumbled upon a similar article on this at the emediawire.com website and realized that their version had some plusses and differences relative to my edition. Here are the commandments that they have listed on the article. The differences from or additions to my verse are in

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I think I have to stop having any more comments further on due to massive amounts of "spam comments" that I've been receiving lately. E-mail me for any comment of yours. Thank you.

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After a recent academic research uncover the scandal that a huge number of stock option grant has been exercised just before a rise in the share prices of executives’s companies, the deal has turned into a widely run investigation by the SEC. As the waters never get calm in today’s business life in United States, this thing might be “the next big corporate event after the Enron clash”, experts

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If a virus, let’s say bird flu virus, were about to turn into a global epidemic with a limited number of vaccines at your hand as a leader,a president -someone in charge of the situation- of your home country; who would be the first to be saved?That’s a tough question for sure, but after thinking with some logic, an idea pops up into your minds and I hear you saying; the health officials, the

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All, right we all yammer about the level of ethical approaches to our daily and business lifes and ask in every possible situation that if students get enough of ethics, especially at business school level, but we don’t really know if the “real” business ethics is really something “teachable”. It is more wide and applicable, especially through the b-schools at United States in this post-Enron,

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OK, there is no need to panic, we know the secret formula of Coca-Cola is not at risk. It is safely kept in a vault somewhere in Atlanta, possibly in the Coca-Cola headquarters. The stolen recipe which was about to be sold to rivals PepsiCo was only for a new beverage. Here is the case. In May, a letter in an official Coca-Cola envelope lands at PepsiCo headquarters. It offers to sell

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Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colorado before his sentencing date has arrived.He died believing he was innocent of the charges he brought down Enron Corp. He was the only one.No sudden death anyway...Sure that he was something to write and think about for most of us and the things that he has been through were also great subjects of interest for

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The Business Ethics Magazine publishes a list every year (a popular one) that is aiming to establish the identity of firms which serves their stakeholders with “excellence and integrity”. The firms in the “100 Best Corporate Citizens” list are drawn from the S&P500 plus 150 other firms and the ratings are engaged of several groups like; shareholders, community, minorities and women, employees,

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Green LA Girl is a blogger from Los Angeles, CA Unites States and publishes a blog on ethical consumerism.At her weblog, she shows a nice example of internet-based corporate policy monitoring.The deal is about Starbucks Coffee stores that opearate both at Turkey and Australia.She writes: "Starbucks says it’ll French-press a cup of fair trade coffee for any customer who specifically asks for a

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My final examinations are on the way so I won't be able post any new material until July.Until then, I'll be gathering some ideas to write down.Bye for now, till soon...

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This is a drawing that I’ve got from the web site www.cartoonwork.com. It really captures what Enron executives probably thought about the relationship between their crappy code of ethics and financial statements. I suggest you to have a look at the “CEOs and Bosses Cartoons” category under the archive section on the web site.There really are some funny stuff regarding to our ethical issues

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Arthur Andersen and Enron were brought down because of the actions of a few individuals within the companies. The companies allowed these actions to flourish beacuse “the tone at the top” of the organization was bad; that is, company executives encouraged deception, fostered a “win at any price”attitude, and deliberately ignored the interests of their own employees and outside investors.*

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Foreword As officers and employees of Enron Corp., its subsidiaries, and its affiliated companies, we are responsible for conducting the business affairs of the companies in accordance with all applicable laws and in a moral and honest manner.To be sure that we understand what is expected of us, Enron has adopted certain policies, with the approval of the Board of Directors, which are set forth

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How do Jews do so well in business?Has any of you wondered how?Well,some of you might say that they care so much for money or mainly do business with each other (if it is so) or they are really good on any kind of entrepreneurship...Although all of these are logical assumptions, my suspicious mind make me think and research about the real thing(I guess so) behind any Jew doing so well in

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Spoiler Warning : Plot and/or ending details follow about the movie 'Match Point'.I'm pretty much sure that most of you people,lots of times say to yourselves ''I know I should not do this, but I'm going to do it anyway.''You do it or don't do it, but in the end simply knowing what's right or what's wrong isn't enough.In order to emphasize my argument I'll give you some cases in the light of the

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I've been accepted to 2 different jobs during the last 3 weeks after some number of tough interview processes and after agreeing in all terms with my employers(!) I had to reject their offers as I thought that I'll find myself caught in the middle between my school and 4 days a week internship.So I told them with my sorriest feelings that I would not be able to hold on to the job.And here it goes

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