Monday, September 21, 2015

Business 101: The Truth Will Out

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A number of companies have found themselves in, um, unfortunate situations this month because of problems that they should have known would...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

What Does It Take to Get a Banker to Perp Walk?

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Thank you, Gretchen Morgenson, for regularly asking the right questions. I have complained before (most recently here and here ) that banke...
Monday, August 10, 2015

The Merchants of Doubt Are Back in Town

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In 2010, historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway published a terrific book called The Merchants of Doubt  (the book was followed...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Should "Cost of Doing Business" Include Product Safety?

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Over the years, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the "cost of doing business". Traditionally, that has meant a prett...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Paid Leave: Do the Right Thing. I Don't Care If It's For the Wrong Reason.

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The United States likes to celebrate its "exceptionalism", except when it's exceptional on the wrong side of the bell curve. ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Once Again: If People Are Dying Because of Your Product, Admit It, and Fix It. Fast.

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Most of us hate publicly admitting our failings. We're good at not admitting them to ourselves, and we're really  good at hiding th...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Will Coal Finally Clean Up its Act?

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I started writing about how dirty "clean coal" is back in 2010 and 2011 ( here , here , and here ), originally driven by the horri...