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Has the DJIA become a fantasy sport?

S&P Dow Jones Indices recently dropped energy-giant ExxonMobil, big-pharma company Pfizer, and defense contractor Raytheon from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Taking their place will be cloud-software company Salesforce, biotech firm Amgen, and industrial conglomerate Honeywell. The DJIA isn’t really an industrial average any more. Many of its constituent companies (Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Visa, …

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Using two corporate jets at the same time? Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt joins the Business Ethics Hall of Shame

In the movie Wall Street, the protagonist asks insatiably greedy villain Gordon Gekko, “How many yachts can you ski behind?” It turns out that life imitates art, when the issue isn’t greed, but ego — and someone else is paying. Reportedly, as CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt regularly used two corporate jets at the …

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