Comments on: 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics (2007)

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By: Nina Shahin

Nina Shahin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:34:37 +0000

I have read today in the Wilmington newspaper The News Journal that the Delaware Supreme COurt Justice Myron Steel was named by your magazine the 9th in corporate ethics. This is a joke. At the moment my Petition for Writ of Certiorari has been docketed at the Supreme Court of the US under # 08-676. In that Petition the Petitioners (I and my husband) made charges of ‘racketeerting activities’ of Delaware judges and attorneys (as defined under the 18 U.S.C. section 1961 (1)). The Supreme Court Justice Myron Steel is involved in cover-up of the “racketeering activites” of the judge of the Superior Court Robert B. Young who committed offences of ‘obstruction of justice’ as defined in 18 U.S.C. sec. 1506, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1985(2) and 18 U.S.C. sec. 1513(e first). I filed a $ 9,000,000 lawsuit against 9 DE judges in federal court for the district of Delaware including Myron Steel for violation of my constitutional rights and inability to enforce the federal laws adopted by the US Congress to protect the rights of consumers (Regulations BB, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and Consumer Credit Protection Act.) The lawsuit has been docketed in the federal court under # 08-295 GMS. At the moment I filed Motions for sanctions against all attorneys in this case including the Deputy Attorney General of the State of DE. There is a mafia of judges and attorneys in the state of Delaware that prevent enforcement any laws protecting consumer in the state of Delaware and Honorable Myron Steel is presiding over that mafia. Your ranking is slap in the face of that fact and a complete mickery of the basic principles of ethics because no ethical rules could be enforced in the state of DE against judges or attorneys because there are no any meaningful structures or mechanisms for enforcing the ethics rules prmulgated by professional societies. The Supreme Court of DE presides over those procedures and I was unable to enforce any of the ethical rules,

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:08:50 +0000

How could this be called Global list. almost 90% of the people on the list are from either Europe or America. If you actually searched deep, you might have found some other people from either Asia or Africa that should be on there.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:52:21 +0000

I have to agree with what several other posters have said – Wal-Mart’s environmental promises have only served to cover up the company’s other, equally damaging practices. Not only has the company done little to achieve the environmental goals you praise (which, as an aside, don’t even address all of the environmental problems with Wal-Mart’s business model), it’s also failed to address the numerous other ethical concerns lobbied against it. Why aren’t employees’ wages, health care, use of sweatshops and the economic impact on small communities part of your “ethical” considerations?

By: Dialethik

Dialethik — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:49:32 +0000

You broke down all of the winners into nine core categories, it’s a good idea. But i don’t understand why there is no organizational communication categorie. Communication and especially dialogical communication is one of the most important part of business ethics.

http://www.dialethik.com

By: Thad Wilson

Thad Wilson — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:18:33 +0000

Once again, you guys have found yet another way to trivialize the entire professional ethics field, and all those who labor in it. I note that you also didn't bother to disclose that you have working relationships with several of the people on this list. Some of them are even CLIENTS of yours. You people have no understanding of the field, no love of the cause, and a endless thirst for sensationalism. You have no shame. Ethisphere Response: Possibly you are referring to a few of our keystone partners who made the list. We’d like to point out that they are on the list for the same reason we work with them: their excellent work within the business ethics community. Ethisphere doesn’t have ‘clients’ as you mention, but members of the Ethisphere Council – a group of businesses interested in furthering ethical business practices – did make it on our list. These companies did not provide input into deciding how the list was constructed.

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:32 +0000

Remember, this list is the most INFLUENTIAL people in business ethics, not the most ethical! Read the prologue to the results! Many of those listed did unethical things that got their stakeholders and the public talking about ethics! That’s noteworthy.

By: John Hiatt

John Hiatt — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:04:12 +0000

I’d like to know how in the world the CEo of Wal-Mart ranked #4 on this list. They are being sued for millions over labor law violations and have a miserable reputation for sharp business practices when it comes to dealing with their suppliers. Hardly a model organization, and if this guy is ethically tops then so much for the concept of “setting the tone at the top.”

By: Michael DeKort

Michael DeKort — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:43:11 +0000

#41 Maryanne Lavan – You did not do your homework
Check the lead article in Corporate Counsel this month â€“ Attention Must Be Paid – as well as the text from the House Transportation Committee Coast Guard Deepwater hearings April 18th of last year. A hearing she was under subpoena to testify at. She was there to tell the committee why she didn’t do what she should have in her previous role as VP of Ethics for Lockheed Martin. I know this because I am the whistleblower the article mentions. More can be found searching on my name and “Deepwater”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:53:34 +0000

You obviously didn’t do any research

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:16:50 +0000

Kirk Hanson is alive. Thus, he deserves second place. If we forget about Wharton for a second, perhaps even first.

By: barbara h.

barbara h. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:11:40 +0000

Is your 100 ethics list for real? The mistress of the Chinese who? the unamed employee? GAVEN Newsome, good grief! AND, Arnold Schwartzenager…whatever, in California. This is a joke. Right? :)

By: Anahita

Anahita — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:51:07 +0000

How come yr list has very few thought leaders from Asia or Africa? Like most publications coming out of developed countires, you have looked at people about whom information is readily avalible to you … why dont you dig a little deeper and go beyond the obvious?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:13:08 +0000

Definition of ethics: the discipline dealing with what is good & bad and with moral duty and obligation. What’s ethical (or moral)about mandatory extra shift work and NOT paying overtime because the employee had a holiday or vacation day in the TWO WEEK reporting period? Anne Mulcahy was VP of Human Resources at XEROX for some time. Something is wrong with the investigations and conclusions of these decisions. Of any corporation, where there is a CEO that spent time in any Human Resource dept., I would expect an ethical, moral watchful eye over human rights and the simple abuses of management over subordinates. The Xerox Service organization has some blatant issues that are not getting fixed. Employees are afraid of retaliation.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:40:00 +0000

I’m not sure I understand (or agree) with the default connection between environmentalism and ethical corporate governance. One does not necessarily lead to or promote the other. As ethics is the central purpose of Ethisphere, if you think the environmental work is important, then have a separate list. But I see names on this list that are ostensibly being rewarded for promoting ethics that have made no apparent contribution to that end; rather they have moved their companies to be more “green”.

By: Jim O'Hara

Jim O'Hara — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:27:44 +0000

You put Nacchio on the reviled list because he refused to break the law and give US citizen’s phone records to the NSA without a warrant? In fact he was the *only* telcom CEO with the ethical backbone to stand up to the NSA. He stood his ground even though the retribution was the NSA canceling their contract with Quest, which lowered profits, and that caused the stock price to drop. That drop in stock price allowed the government to bring him up on insider trading charges because he sold stock before the contracts were canceled.

Now the administration is trying to get a law passed giving retroactive immunity to the telcoms that did break the law and cooperate with the NSA.

I think your view of Nacchio is completely wrong. He should be at the top of the ethics list. He refused to break the law when pressured by the NSA to do so.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:47:02 +0000

They are influential for them ,they need to do something great for the society .That would really make them influential .

By: Mike Tanner

Mike Tanner — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:58 +0000

H. Lee Scott Jr. President and CEO of Wal-Mart named #4 for ethical business practices? What a grotesque joke. Shame on you and your publication.

Ethisphere Response:

As for Mr. Scott’s placement, he and Wal-Mart have come under fire for quite some time over a number of their business practices and that makes him a controversial winner. Wal-Mart has made some big steps in going green, particularly in its truck fleet’s emissions, and that’s what ultimately propelled him up the ranks. And – as a consequence – Wal-Mart was actually able to cut overall costs by implementing these green initiatives. Because of this, he was placed in the “Business Leadership” category, which asks the question, “Did the individual substantially transform a specific business’ operational practices consistent with profitable ethical leadership, forcing competitors to follow suit or fall behind?” Keep in mind that this list accounts for how the influencers brought about change within the year, not their overall career. Mr. Scott was able to show other business leaders that emissions/energy usage/etc can be cut, while still dropping the bottom line.

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:06:22 +0000

I know GE is not ethical. I work for them and I fight a daily battle to do the ethical thing. Yes the company has all the right sayings and policies but we don’t follow the policies to the “Spirit and Letter”, or we at least look for the holes that make the actions “legitimate”.

By: Sonam

Sonam — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:22:14 +0000

You must be kidding! You have all the penalists from US. Please don’t call it a global list. Typical of the western world!!!

By: jim

jim — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:59:18 +0000

If Immelt were an ethical person he would apologize to the shareholders for failing to do his job, return the money he has taken these last 7 years, and resign. The man is an empty suit who has done nothing. Immelt immoral, whats the difference?

By: STEVE BONZAI

STEVE BONZAI — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:39:22 +0000

what a despicable bunch