Ethics-Governance: Article: The New Responsibility in Business

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The New Responsibility in Business The New Responsibility in Business Scott Harshbarger, former Massachusetts Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, now a lawyer with a practice specializing in ethics issues, spoke on ethics at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts. Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, took notes. Material in square brackets is paraphrased; the rest is quoted directly. The challenges to corporate America, to business leaders, to find ways to restore, repair or demonstrate integrity and confidence in the average investors, in consumers, is a very important issue. This issue affects everyone. If you go back to the 2000 presidential election, what were the issues debated? Terrorism was not a major issue. And we never talked about whether there were major problems in corporate America. Enron was convincing us that we could have dergulation at the same time California was being choked on that issue. But over the last three years, [the economy has suffered] over 7 trillion in lost value. Full Article: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/new-responsibility.shtml


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