Advertising contains, in one form or another, values (or pseudo-values) in its messages. I remember, for example, one TV ad in which two people fought over possession of a bottle of a soft drink – ah yes, how desirable! Fortunately not all of the ‘values’ that appear are of this nature, such as a video […]
A Goldman Sachs executive leaves the firm in a stand against its culture
On March 14th, 2012, in the opinion section of The New York Times, there appeared an article by Greg Smith, a midlevel executive at Goldman Sachs (GS). He announced that in rejection of the current GS culture, which he qualified as “toxic and destructive”, he had just resigned. This was quite different to what he had found on being hired 12 years previously. This requires a ethical analysis
Business and Social Ethics: a new blog is born
To communicate with a group that is far from small, or with an audience in cyberspace was a question I posed myself: the answer I arrived at can be seen here, with this unveiling of a new blog, but I have also resolved that this will not be at the cost of neglecting the first […]