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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Should We Teach Students About the “Social Impact” of Business?
As regular readers know, I’ve blogged a lot about the vocabulary we use to talk about ‘doing the right thing’ in business. Here’s another example of a term that some people seem to want to use to capture that entire …
The Future of Universities: A Rhetorical Question?
The higher education sector is giving clear evidence that the Tories are responding to their own rhetoric rather than the reality of the way a modern economy is organised. Cuts to university funding have been savage and sudden: 6% to the …
Where are you from, originally?
The extraordinary spectacle of the most powerful man in the world having to justify his parentage is one of the clearest signs to date that the US is having a collective nervous breakdown. The invention of the concept of birtherism is …
Tornadoes and Tournedos
The latest news from the South is dreadful. Reports of hundreds of twisters is almost impossible to apprehend. It is too simplistic to say that Mother Nature seems angry these days, but it seems an apt metaphor. The devastating earthquakes …
Part Two: Is Shale Gas a Bridge to Clean Energy? Possible Water Contamination and a Well Blowout Cause Doubt
Natural gas is among the cleanest burning fossil fuels, but two unfolding events – possible water contamination and a well blowout – in shale-rich Pennsylvania highlight the potential environmental cost of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). In the first case, the Pennsylvania …
Lying for Profit
Lying, generally, is wrong. Is it also wrong to facilitate a lie, or to profit from doing so? What if your entire business model involves helping people tell lies? No, I’m not talking about the big accounting firms, who only sometimes …
Tagged accountability, Chris MacDonald, Ethics, excuses, honesty
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Manufacturing, Suppliers & Retailers- Partnering for Better Chemical Data in the Supply Chain
“WARNING: This area contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.” Now that I have your attention, have you ever seen one of these warnings posted outside your local convenience …
Phosphorus: Unsung bedrock of prosperity
Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without phosphate fertilisers — and it needs more and more of them. Experts warn of an imminent phosphorus shortage. But not Roland Scholz from the Institute of Environmental Decisions. For him, the main problems are …
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