High flying startup Entellium crashed to the ground last Friday when the former CEO and CFO were arrested on fraud charges. Entellium had raised over $50 million in venture funding from top firms Ignition Partners and Sigma Partners on the potentially fraudulent bases. …
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ethics for the real world
This blog uses the principles in the book Ethics for the Real World to cut through the rationalizations that often accompany today’s current events to expose and analyze the underlying ethical issues.
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Startup Cooks its Books to Raise Money
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US Software Piracy at 20%
http://ethicsfortherealworld.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/23/us-software-piracy-at-20/I have not blogged recently because I have been busy giving radio and press interviews while vacationing in Hawaii for a few weeks. However, I could not help but comment on the 2007 State Piracy Study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) that was released recently. …
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More Regulation is not the Solution to Ethical Lapses in Business
http://ethicsfortherealworld.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/01/more-regulation-is-not-the-solution-to-ethical-lapses-in-business/The frequency of my blogging has dropped dramatically in the last week due to the launch of my book. It turns out you have a few weeks of fame when everyone pays attention to you and then you become old news. So, I have been making hay while the sunshines and have done six radio interviews, one phone talk, one TV interview, and a few email interviews. …
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A code of conduct for business ethics
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/A-code-of-conduct-for-b...Via ethics {for the real world}, I came across this post where William Baker looks back at his experience writing on business ethics for 18 months, and summarizes what he learnt in a list of 11 straightforward words of wisdom, which I reproduce as-is.
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Kevin Hoffberg's Blog
http://kevinhoffberg.com/blogBlogroll AdMonkey Ageless Marketing Buzz Machine Chris Heuer’s Idea Engine Ethics for the Real World Firms of Endearment Group Partners Group Partners Wiki Idea Sandbox Just Think by John Caswell Mad Dog Blog Made to Stick Marketing Pilgrim Mashable Midlife Rider Net Family News Nudge Blog Scott Berkun
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Business Ethics Begins on Your Hard Drive
http://blogs.bnet.com/ethics/?p=203that the tech industry lost more than $15 billion in revenue from software piracy in eight states - enough to pay for the salaries of 54,000 high tech workers. If that figure isn’t reason enough to forgo pirated software, Clint Korver over at ethics for the real world, offers another rationale. He says ethical habits start with small things - even such things as software: Software piracy is to theft what white lies are to lies. In both cases it is all too easy for people to tell themselves a story about how it
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Got Ethics?
http://elijones.us/sw/2008/07/17/got-ethics/And why is an ethical compromise often so easy for many people? We’ll talk this hour with Clinton D. Korver, co-author of the new book “Ethics: {for the real world}” (Harvard Business Press, 2008). Go to the Think Podcast at KERA.org. (link) Check out the Ethics for the real world web blog. (link)
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Senator Contrad’s Mortgage Pickle
http://decision-quality.com/blog/2008/06/23/senator-contrads...My colleague, Clint Korver blogged the other day on the pickle Senator Kent Conrad finds himself in due to the appearance of favorable treatment at the hands of Countrywide Mortgage . . . The Washington Post today showed this morning how it worked. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. upon advice from an old friend, called up Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo to
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EcoGEOS
http://www.ecogeos.comSocially Responsible Investing Confuses the Ethical Issues [ethics for the real world] . In other words we screen-out companies from investment consideration that engage in unethical behaviors such as supporting South Africa during Apartheid or supporting Sudan given the current atrocities in Darfur. We are
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FIN MANIA
http://www.finmania.comEthics of <b>Hedge Funds</b>: a Closer Look at Bear Stearns Sophis Developer <b>Hedge Fund</b> Permanent or Contract Bear Stearns’ <b>Hedge Fund</b> Managers May Face Charges of Securities Fraud Who Needs a <b>Hedge Fund<
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Ancient Helpdesk
http://kevinrants.typepad.com/kevin_rants/2008/05/ancient-he...This is very amusing. Embedded Video
