Comments on: 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics 2008

By: jim mcmillen

jim mcmillen — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:20:07 +0000

Are you going to take Senator Ted Stevens name off your list of stinkers?

I suggest you substitute the names of the Federal Prosecutors who cooked the book on old Teddy!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:49:26 +0000

Obama does not deserve to be on this list he lied and cheated to get in the white house regardless of what words came out of his mouth! also he is lying about the stimulus plan which is mostly pork and handouts for political favor on the backs of our children!

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjcyODIyZGM2MGU1ZDdkNDgxZDc3OTNjYjM4ZDY1ODI=

I am sure you pride the research that goes into creating this list so please take a second look at Obama

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:09:37 +0000

You have FAR too many Americans on this list… are we to presume that 90% of the worlds most ethical business people live in America? Is the rest of the world that corrupt?

Aside from the obvious paean to China, I see barely any Europeans on this list – and bearing in mind Germany is the worlds biggest exporter, there are a few glaring ommissions here

By: Wendy Goff

Wendy Goff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:52:40 +0000

Please include someone investigating the disgusting tactics of IBM, and their practices of slave labor oversees while unfairly and unjustly laying off thousands and thousands of US employees without cause and then showing up to ‘help’ the federal government by building a ‘green’ data center and taking more public money after being the company that started and fueled the outsourcing that has happened so quickly that there is no longer a middle class. They helped thousands of businesses ‘steal’ retirements and then became a clearing house to send the work over seas.

By: A Chinese

A Chinese — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:38:10 +0000

Mr Norton, I’m afraid you’re mistaken. How can you discredit an entire article based on such a minor issue (which, in fact, is not an issue at all)? Ethisphere didn’t get the Chinese names backward. Chinese surnames/last names are written before given names (or your so-called “first names”). I am Chinese and can personally vouch for that.

By: d p

d p — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:33:19 +0000

OK seriously why was George Bush and Cheneyface not on the list? Hmmmmmmmmm????

By: Phil Candreva

Phil Candreva — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:20:34 +0000

How can you include the chinese apartment owner?? Ethics is about behavior guided by notions of right and wrong. The only right and wrong that guided the apartment owner’s actions is that she believed it is not right for her landlord to allow toilet water to drip on her head. So what? That makes her a hero? She neither knew nor probably cared about the root cause of the problem (rusty pipes? a child stuffing too much TP in the commode?) The discovery of bribe money was purely accidental.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:49:44 +0000

Joshua Margolis of Harvard Business School should be atop this list!

By: Patrick M. Norton

Patrick M. Norton — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:39:14 +0000

You should be embarrassed: you got every one of the Chinese names on the list backward. Liu Qi is Mr. Liu, not “Qi.” Dong Zhengqing is Mr. Dong, not “Zhengqing.” That kind of error, however inadvertent, undermines your credibility. It sounds like you really don’t know much about some of these people.

By: Kristen M.

Kristen M. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:22:30 +0000

An error: The CEO of Wal-Mart is listed twice, as #6 and #41. I don’t believe he was THAT much of an influence in business ethics last year…

Ethisphere Response: Thanks for the catch. #41 is actually Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google.

By: Sandi Edgmond

Sandi Edgmond — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:07:21 +0000

#48 on your list of the 100 most influential people is “Chinese Apartment Owner” – isn’t that an error?