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BLOG: “Kirk Hanson on Corporate Misconduct”

This blog identified and revealed the hidden lessons in the most significant incidents of good and bad corporate behavior in the news. It has now been replaced by ETHICS MEGATRENDS, Kirk’s newsletter. Kirk began each business school class at Stanford and Santa Clara for 40 years with “business ethics in the news,” revealing what could be learned from that week’s incidents of business virtue and misconduct. This blog continues that tradition. 

Kirk taught hundreds of cases on the most egregious corporate scandals of the last 50 years, but is also deeply interested in good corporate conduct, having served as the founding CEO of the Business Enterprise Trust, a national awards program for exemplary business behavior. He worked with distinguished business leaders such as Norman Lear, J&J Chair Jim Burke, Warren Buffet, Peter Drucker, Katharine Graham, Sol Linowitz, William Coleman, and others to honor more than 50 business people and companies for exceptional moral behavior.

Short Sellers: Are They Keeping Companies Honest?
Short Sellers: Are They Keeping Companies Honest?

A report by Hindenburg Research has trashed the stock of Nikola Corp, an electric truck manufacturing firm headquartered in Phoenix which went public only in June.

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Kirk HansonSeptember 25, 2020Comment
Fake Reviews: Crossing the Line and Who Is Responsible
Fake Reviews: Crossing the Line and Who Is Responsible

With online commerce exploding in recent years, every product and business craves five-star reviews. But can they ethically encourage others to post good reviews?

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Kirk HansonSeptember 10, 2020Comment
Online Subscriptions That Trap You
Online Subscriptions That Trap You

The rush to subscription business models has revolutionized the software and product markets. But it has led to varying degrees of misconduct by many firms.

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Kirk HansonSeptember 7, 2020Comment
ESG Investing Under Attack by Trump Administration
ESG Investing Under Attack by Trump Administration

In recent years, the addition of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance factors to investment criteria has been growing rapidly.

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Kirk HansonAugust 31, 2020Comment
Online Addiction—The Robinhood Chapter
Online Addiction—The Robinhood Chapter

Online games manipulate players’ emotions to encourage them to feel a rush from progressing from one “level” to another, and from vanquishing demons along the way.

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Kirk HansonAugust 19, 2020Comment
How Courageous are Corporate Boards—CEO Clawbacks
How Courageous are Corporate Boards—CEO Clawbacks

The boards of the two companies are setting an important precedent by not looking the other way when dismissing CEOs.

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Kirk HansonAugust 17, 2020Comment
Beyond Facebook: Orgs Audit Behavior of Connected Firms
Beyond Facebook: Orgs Audit Behavior of Connected Firms

This boycott is different; it is a collective action which sought to pressure Facebook to change its basic policies and practices.

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Kirk HansonAugust 14, 2020Comment
Dieselgate Revisited: Volkswagen and Now Daimler
Dieselgate Revisited: Volkswagen and Now Daimler

Developments with Daimler suggest the problem may not have been a bad corporate culture at VW—but a broader culture of misconduct in the European auto industry.

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Kirk HansonAugust 12, 2020Comment
Is Harvard’s N. Gregory Mankiw the Next Milton Friedman?
Is Harvard’s N. Gregory Mankiw the Next Milton Friedman?

What Friedman, and now Mankiw, miss, is that business has both positive and negative social impacts, the worst of which can never be fully reined in by law and regulation.

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Kirk HansonAugust 3, 2020 Comment
Activism: Least Important Part of Corporate Responsibility?
Activism: Least Important Part of Corporate Responsibility?

This activism and advocacy is only one element of the three legged stool of a broader corporate responsibility which all companies should practice.

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Kirk HansonJuly 30, 2020Comment
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