Riding The ESG Juggernaut: Whose Business Is It, Anyway?
The new Administration’s commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (”ESG”) issues begs the question of a business’s end goals. We deserve an open and honest debate. Will we get one? Contending Theories of Corporate Purpose What should be a business’s end goal? Over the last 50 years, two competing approaches have duked it out. Dualism:…
Read MoreParler: The Business Ethics Of Framing And De-Platforming
De-platformed within a 24-hour span by Amazon, Apple, and Google, social-media service Parler tries to rise from the dead. What’s the direct and collateral damage of success or failure? Framing In setting norms, how an issue is framed goes a long way towards deciding it. Whoever wins the framing battle often wins the policy war.…
Read MoreBoeing’s $2.5 Billion Near Miss: A Faulty-To-The-Max Update
It’s been said that “you get justice in the next world, in this world you get law.” Does Boeing’s $2.5 billion settlement over 737 MAX crashes bear this maxim out? Boeing Cops A Plea — And Throws Two Ex-employees To The Wolves Last week’s column described the design and training decisions that caused two, Boeing…
Read MoreFaulty To The Max: Boeing And The FAA’s 737 Debacle
Upgraded Boeing 737 MAX commercial jets have returned to the skies. The blame game, however, goes on. Can we find a principle that cuts through the spin? Accidents Happen; Catastrophes Take Effort A total of 346 people died in two separate crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jets in October 2018 and March 2019. The crashes…
Read MoreWhat Are Apple And Facebook Fighting Over? — You
In a free market, when companies fight over customers, it’s the customers who should win. Will that happen here? The Apple-Facebook fight over user privacy heated up last week, with Facebook taking out full-page advertisements in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The ads proclaimed that Facebook was “standing up to Apple for…
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