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"The universal triumph of the secular state has thrown all religious organizations into such a definitely secondary, and finally ineffectual, position that religious pantomime is hardly more today than a sanctimonious exercise for Sunday morning, whereas business ethics and patriotism stand for the remainder of the week." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In 1999, McDonald's was nominated for the prestigious business ethics Award, given by the judges at business ethics magazine. But the magazine decided not to grant the award to McDonald's. An open letter from the judges to McDonald's, published in the November/December 1999 issue of business ethics, explained why: "We must express concern about slaughterhouse cruelty by McDonald's suppliers. . . . Federal standards require that 100 percent of cows be fully stunned before they are skinned, but (according to) ... a McDonald's training video . . ." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"Toffler was hired by Andersen to set up a consulting practice for business ethics, but in the process of trying to bring business into the company, she found herself violating her own canons. She writes, "despite my self-image as a debunker, my frequent battles with my bosses and an occasional outbreak of 'my way,' I basically went along with the culture. I didn't break any laws or violate any regulations, but I certainly compromised many of my values." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.)

"To combat Entine's story, which appeared in business ethics magazine, the Body Shop turned to their PR guru, Frank Mankiewicz of Hill & Knowlton. A former president of National Public Radio, Mankiewicz assailed his former NPR colleagues for running a piece critical of the Body Shop. NPR acquiesced by removing the original NPR reporter and editor from the story.35 The fallout over the Body Shop also prompted Ben Cohen—the "Ben" of Ben & Jerry's—to resign from the advisory board of business ethics magazine in protest against the publication of Entine's expose. " - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"Only Georgia, a frontier state with frontier business ethics, but the state in which Mrs. Greene lived, where the cat missed the chicken, and where the gin was born, failed to pay up. Eli Whitney was naturally disgusted by the whole gin saga, which had absorbed twenty years of his life, yielded him less than $100,000, and made thousands rich beyond the dreams of avarice. He was to go down in history as the essential link in the whole cotton saga, one of the godfathers of the War Between the States." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"What's Good About This Line: Although I don't admire the business ethics of a company whose products try to capitalize on the success and reputation of an established brand, I have to concede that the products do work well and the prices are almost too good to resist. What's Not So Good About It: Every product is compared to and attempts to copy another hair-care line's successful, well-known product. © Freezing Hair Spray, Extra Firm Hold (Aerosol) ($3.86for 10 ounces) is a standard, firm-hold hairspray that, along with its strong hold, leaves hair feeling stiff and somewhat sticky." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

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