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"Nontransparency is now the norm for commercially sponsored medical research in much the same way that it had become the norm in accounting and business practices in companies such as Enron and Worldcom, and with much the same results—though the magnitude of the cost in dollars and health still remains a well-kept secret. Medical researchers must have access to all the results of their studies, perform their own analyses of the data, write up their own conclusions, and submit the report for publication to peer-reviewed medical journals." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Of course there are overreaching business practices that some pharmaceutical companies sometimes utilize, such as selling too hard, charging too much, or taking advantage of consumer ignorance with overstated direct-to-consumer advertising," wrote Howard Solomon, the chairman of Forest Laboratories, in a letter to shareholders in 2002. "And, of course, it is appropriate to criticize, and in a proper case, to take action against such excesses but, at the same time, to realize that all businesses have comparable excesses." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "By 2007 just about every major pharmaceutical company was under investigation for fraudulent marketing or other illegal business practices. Prosecutors have tried to discourage the fraud by imposing fines of nearly a billion dollars on some drug companies. The pharmaceutical executives appear to consider these fines as little more than a cost of doing business. With no limits on drug prices in America, the companies have simply raised their prices to cover the penalties." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Co-op America is working on several fronts to promote environmentally and socially responsible businesses and business practices. First and foremost, it is a great resource for consumers and businesses looking for a green solution to just about any problem. Co-op America maintains a directory of green businesses called the National Green Pages, which is a great way to promote businesses that are doing the right thing. When the demand for green business is there, those businesses will prosper, and more businesses will follow suit to do the right thing. ^?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"For example, we found that Medicare s authorized payments for 24 leading drugs in the year 2000 were $887million more than actual wholesale prices available to physicians and suppliers" Here are some examples of lawsuits where states and the federal government have had to force the pharmaceutical companies to follow ethical business practices: Hawaii is suing 44 drug companies for creating phony wholesale prices, including Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Bayer Corp., Pfizer Inc., and Johnson & Johnson, Inc. «•* Ulcer medication Ranitidine: Street price = $27." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"This is causing changes in business practices and pushing even reluctant industries into the green business consciousness. Here's an example. John Fogach, chairman of ForestRe, a London-based forest insurer working with clients in Panama, is putting together a collaborative effort to save vast regions of rain forest. The Panama Canal requires large amounts of freshwater to operate its locks. Yet, this freshwater is disappearing due to rain forest degradation." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"This was a story that embraced new brain science and profound issues of personal responsibility; competitive business practices in contracting markets and endemic workplace stress; the American mania for civil-liability suits and high-stakes contingency litigation. Crucially, it involved the gulf between authentic public health needs and the commercial goals of the pharmaceutical industry; the public's right to know the unadorned truth about medication and the pharmaceutical industry's tendency to withhold secretive information in the interest of corporate aims." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"If the answer to our ecological crisis does not also lead to greater security for everyone and help spread democracy, open government, and open business practices, it is in fact no answer at all. We need a future that is bright, green, free, and tough. So here we are. We need, in the next twenty-five years or so, to do something never before done. We need to consciously redesign the entire material basis of our civilization." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Right: The Enron scandal illustrated just how costly secretive and corrupt business practices can be. tends to pay back and make transformative change possible. Skeptical? Consider this: between 2003 and 2005, community-investment assets grew by 40 percent. gf Transparency in Business ¦¦¦¦ How do we know if a company is behaving responsibly? If it is secretive, holds closed meetings, and carefully guards its books, we can't really know. Which is why one of the hottest trends in investing today is to demand corporate transparency." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Mary is proud of the company's policy of buying only from firms that adhere to sustainable business practices. Mary and her friends can't wait to get to work; they love their jobs. Their employee productivity surpasses that of many larger companies with more resources. Their customer satisfaction rating is outstanding and customer loyalty is the envy of similar companies operating in the upside-down world. Making the flip to Mary's world is easier than you think. Millions of people have already done so—with more ready to flip when the moment is right." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The Associated Press has called him "the guru of green business practices." HA55AN MASUM [HM] Hassan Masum has worked as an engineer, postdoctoral scientist, policy developer, and consultant. He is currently exploring social technologies, reputation systems, and ecological economics for their potential to make doing the right thing the natural thing. Hassan contributes to Worldchanging and other creative nonprofits as a way to do good while having fun, and to plant the seeds for the massive collaborative efforts of the future." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"They do this by raising awareness so that people can make informed decisions about how to vote with their dollars and by organizing efforts to encourage changes in business practices, for example, people can send a letter encouraging ExxonMobil to start investing in renewable energy sources.^ Co-op America even uses similar strategies for positive reinforcement, as with their letter to congratulate magazine publishers using environmentally preferable papers.-*2 www.coopamerica.org ? Greenbiz.com Information is critical to greening business." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In the boggy pharma jungle, it swung on the vine of prior greatness while withering on stultifying British business practices. It was not always thus: Glaxo began life as a vibrant trading company in mid-nineteenth-century London. In the early 1900s, it began manufacturing dried milk, eventually emerging as the United Kingdom's principal purveyor of baby formula, food, and vitamins. After WWII, the firm got into pharmaceuticals. Some of its hits were Bi2 for pernicious anemia, streptomycin for TB treatment, and albuterol for asthma." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson in announcing the proposed lawsuit, which seeks to ban ads aimed at children for Kellogg junk foods on Nickelodeon, and prevent such beloved Nickelodeon characters as Dora the Explorer or SpongeBob from appearing on packaged junk foods. The threatened lawsuit seeks to address several marketing offenses. For example, of 168 TV food commercials reviewed that appeared on Nickelodeon, 88 percent were for foods of poor nutritional quality; of 27." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The question is not how we can tweak the business practices of a few major corporate players, but rather how we can remove the current system from our path so that we can make way for a better alternative? How can we create truly healthy alternatives that resemble how humans are meant to eat, instead of how corporations would have us eat? We cannot rely on the same industry that is partly responsible for getting us into this mess to get us out of it. Instead, we need to look for better answers. But first, we need to stop allowing the likes of McDonald's to define the questions." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Also, food companies are desperate to ensure that government does not regulate them or criticize their business practices. What better way to accomplish both those goals than to form "partnerships" with Uncle Sam and community-based groups? If the President's Council partners with Burger King, how likely is it that anybody in the president's administration is going to speak out against how the fast-food chain lures children with Star Wars toys and other kid-friendly promotions to get them to eat Whoppers and fries?" - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "If food companies are so worried about becoming targets of lawsuits, why don't they change their business practices to act more responsibly? For starters, restaurants could provide nutrition information for their patrons. Food companies that heavily target young children could reconsider that marketing strategy. Why won't they? Because it costs less to fund a powerful lobbying effort to pass laws that restrict access to the courtroom than it does to clean up your act." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "While this tactic takes numerous forms, its goals are always the same, to: (1) cast doubt on findings that might threaten financial interests; (2) position food makers' own (biased) contributions to the scientific debate as legitimate and authoritative; (3) co-opt experts who would otherwise be critical of business practices; and (4) ensure, ultimately, that people continue to consume food companies' unhealthy products. In the right hands, science plays a critical role in public policy debates. I certainly don't want to convey the message that we should ignore science; quite the opposite." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"If they perceived that their duty and sacrifice was not performed to maintain these ideals, but rather to allow pharmaceutical corporations, politicians, regulatory agencies, and others to share obscene profits and maintain their laissez-faire business practices, our young men might reconsider before so generously serving us. Please read the rest of this manuscript carefully, considering whether the deaths described are preventable." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Censored truths In case after case, the FDA finds some piece of text it does not like, pastes it into a form letter, and sends it off to the targeted online retailer in order to terrorize and disrupt the business practices of that retailer. All the following statements have been singled out by the FDA as drug claims and are therefore targets of censorship, even though every one of these statements isprovably true! "The results of studies [on garlic] demonstrated a positive effect on lowering total cholesterol levels." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare (New Society Publishers, 2002) Coauthors previously of The Natural Step for Business, Nattrass and Altomare have reemerged with this important book revealing the real-life scenarios behind the approach that today's competitive corporations (among them Nike and Starbucks) are taking to establish sustainable business practices." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"If the leaders of a corporation are engaged in dis- work, whether it integrative business practices and deceptive motives, the be literature, or bad energy spreads like cancer throughout the body of music Or pictures the organization. If an accounting department cooks or architecture Or the books, a fraudulent cancer will spread to other anything else, is departments. A department is like an organ inside the always a portrait organizational body; it serves a primary function that 0f Oneself regulates the health and life of the company." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Much of the pressure to eat more comes as a consequence of normal business practices. The deep dark secret of American agriculture (revealed only by agricultural economists behind closed doors) is that there is far too much food available ?,900 calories per day for every man, woman, and child in the country, whereas the average adult needs only a bit more than half that amount, and children much less. The 3,900 calorie figure is at the high end of the amount available in the food supply of industrialized countries." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Many corporations are beginning to answer this clarion call to mature their business practices and redefine their organizational values. Through the new movement toward corporate social responsibility, the first steps are being taken to instill the social values that have gone neglected too long in American business. Not a Single, Not a Double, but a Triple Bottom Line To ascend to the next stage of our social evolution, corporations must look at more than the conventional bottom line." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "From how we understand and use money, to the connection our purchases have in validating or repudiating business practices, to the rapidly changing role we all play in charting our own financial destinies; it all comes back to our own self-worth and how much we value, or devalue, our fellow human beings. Changing your view of money is one of the most important things you can do to dramatically improve the quality of your life. Most of us know people of meager means who enjoy their days with seemingly not a care in the world." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"They have generated considerable international hostility as a result of their business practices. Cargill is actually a commodity broker, looking for maximum profit on food trade. Think of them as the Wall Street of food. It is not in Cargill's interests to help countries become self-sufficient, because those countries would not then need Cargill's food or be subjected to Cargill's price controls." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"They changed their business practices from controlling ad space to designing ads and campaigns and selling a complete package of services to advertisers and the journals. By the 1910s, ad agencies began to employ both artists and copywriters and emerged as full-service companies. Ad agencies in America after about 1910 increasingly were owned by, and drew their employees from, members of the upper and upper-middle classes of society." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Pens on Fire What really scared Pfizer were the business practices still in place at Pharmacia, the ones I had warned Pharmacia's legal department about, but that they hadn't stopped. We divulged the "investigator" meetings and Caribbean trips and we described the program that supplied everyone with free drugs for several months, which could easily be seen as an inducement to off-label sales." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "A political tidal wave is building which will forever change both the industry and many of its infamous business practices. It is sad to note that the drug industry today is as equally poorly regarded as the tobacco companies, and this is a testament not only to the shortsighted foolishness of their management, but also to the fact that you can fool some of the customers some of the time, but not all of them all the time. So is there no hope? Well, Ms." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "To do that, I needed to prove that this wasn't about me, that it truly was about illegal business practices. As I thought about the situation, I realized that the best way to maintain my credibility would be to have other people corroborate my story. However, all the employees who could have done that had signed release agreements saying they would never sue Pfizer; in fact, they would have to cooperate with Pfizer if Pfizer ever got into legal trouble. It positioned my friends as potential adversaries, a devilish set-up. But not everyone had been fired; some others were also in limbo." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

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