Business Ethics: Mistakes and Successes

About the Author.

Chapter 1. Introduction and Perspective.

PART I: CONTEMPORARY VIOLATIONS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST. 

Chapter 2. MetLife: Deceptive Sales Tactics.

Chapter 3. Ford Explorers with Firestone Tires-A Killer Scenario.

Chapter 4. ADM: Price Fixing, Political Cronyism, and a Whistleblower.

Chapter 5. Al Dunlap Savages Sunbeam and Scott Paper.

Chapter 6. United Way: A CEO Batters a Giant Nonprofit.

Chapter 7. Tobacco: Long Callousness to Public Health.

Chapter 8. The Savings and Loan Disaster: Managements Repudiating Their Responsibility.

Chapter 9. WorldCom/MCI: Massive Accounting Fraud.

PART II: CLASSIC ETHICAL VIOLATIONS.

Chapter 10. General Motors' Corvair vs. Ralph Nader: Triggering the Age of Consumerism.

Chapter 11. Union Carbide: Assaulting the Ohio Valley.

Chapter 12. Union Carbide's Bhopal Catastrophe.

Chapter 13. Nestle's Infant Formula: Pushing An Unsafe Product in Third World Countries.

Chapter 14. The Dalkon Shield: Ignoring User Safety.

Chapter 15. Exxon's Alaskan Oil Spill-Environmental Destruction on a Giant Scale.

Chapter 16. ITT: Heavy-Handed Interference in a Foreign Government.

Chapter 17. Lockheed: Overseas Bribery Gone Rampant.

Chapter 18. General Dynamics: Fleecing U.S. Taxpayers.

PART III: QUESTIONABLE ETHICAL CONDUCT.

Chapter 19. Wal-Mart:A Big Bully?

Chapter 20. Nike-Using Cheap Overseas Labor Ethical?

Chapter 21. DaimlerChrsyler: Flagrant Misrepresentation of a Merger.

PART IV: PARAGONS OF GOOD ETHICS PRACTICES.

Chapter 22. Johnson and Johnson's Tylenol Scare-The Classic Example of Responsible Crisis Management.

Chapter 23. Herman Miller: Role Model in Employee and Environmental Relations.

Chapter 24. Conclusions: Lessons from the Past.

Index.