Category Archives: News and Events

The sordid tale makes you want to avert your eyes.  There is a terminally ill wife grappling with her husband’s public confession of an affair.  How that tugs at your heart strings!  But, you find you cannot avert your eyes because there are the … Continue reading →

Leave it to Sports Illustrated to not understand the Barry Bonds issue. Ben Reiter wrote, “If teams are rejecting Bonds on moral grounds, WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?” and “Still, in a sport where teams happily take late-career chances on outcasts … Continue reading →

Scrabulous, the online knockoff of Scrabble, was shut down on July 29, 2008 because Hasbro, and rightfully so, pointed out that Scrabble, the basis for Scrabulous, was its copyrighted game.  Scrabble launched its own online game, but hackers made the authorized version … Continue reading →

Rumors about health, surgery, and cancer recurrence aside, Steve Jobs looks to be ailing.  Even the analysts, whose acute powers of observation found them missing most of the dot-com bust as well as the subprime air, raised the question during a … Continue reading →

A report from Inspector General IG Calvin Scovel of the Department of Transportation on the FAA’s recent kerfluffle over the treatment of inspectors who threw down the flag on airlines’ safety inspections is a must-read.  IG Scovel understands culture, ethics, coziness, and … Continue reading →

There was some disconnect.  Mississippi had 13,000 high-school dropouts per year, but it was reporting to the U.S. Department of Education that its graduation rate was 87%.  Then came the study from Promise Alliance, a nonprofit group working to keep kids in … Continue reading →

Richard Grasso is a spunky sort who provided leadership and inspiration while he headed the New York Stock Exchange.  We all owe him for his post-9-11-01 defiance of all odds in bringing back our financial markets.  And the New York State … Continue reading →

The age-old, as it were, adage is that those over 40 can’t get hired.  Age discrimination laws aside, the call-backs don’t come for the 49-year-old with a stalled career.  My students resort to the Albert Carr philosophy on ethics:  lying … Continue reading →

“The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse:  How To Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies Before It’s Too Late” was recognized with a Gold Medal in the Business Ethics category award.  You can view the write-up at http://axiomawards.wordpress.com/

The Wall Street Journal came to Judge Alex Kozinski’s defense, to wit: 1.  The judge was using a file server; it was not a website.  Funny, the judge referred to it as a site in his discussions with a reporter. … Continue reading →

There were 75 San Diego State University students arrested for running a drug distribution operation.  The students, as one officer involved in the undercover DEA investigation noted, “were businesslike.”  Indeed, their operation for selling cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy netted $100,000.  The Barometer is unable … Continue reading →

Kyphon employees sold, sold, sold Kyphon’s products for spinal fracture repairs. One rep took his territory’s sales from $16,000 a month to $200,000 per month in less than a year. Incentive programs do produce miracles. The whizzes in organizational behavior … Continue reading →