Nestlé Waters’ Hit and Miss
There is a great deal at stake in the bottled water business. Perhaps Nestlé Waters North America knows this better than anybody. The company presently controls approximately 41 percent of the $11.7...
View ArticleDole v. “Bananas!*”
Dole Food Corporation, the world’s largest producer of fruits and vegetables, is expected to file a defamation lawsuit any day now. The company is irked by last weekend’s Los Angeles Film Festival...
View ArticleSIGG’s Legal Troubles
It is often said that transparency is the most important value that a company can have. It might sound like a cliché, but this is a literal truth. Case in point: SIGG Switzerland (USA), Inc. A few...
View ArticleThe CSR Industry’s Lost Cause
Merck. Monsanto. ExxonMobil. Chevron. Citigroup. Goldman Sachs. Smithfield Foods. What do these companies have in common? According to CRO magazine (formerly Business Ethics), they are among the...
View ArticleShell Sets the Context
If you asked 100 executives on the street to list industries and companies with effective stakeholder engagement strategies, my bet is that the vast majority of people would overlook the oil and gas...
View ArticleBanking Industry Lessons Learned
Dennis Kozlowski is outraged. “I sit here and read about a $150 billion bailout of AIG. I compare it to a $6,000 shower curtain,” said the former Tyco CEO in an interview from his jail cell several...
View ArticleTrust and Consequences
Why do some companies win public trust and others lose it? That’s a question more people are asking themselves, as global faith in business remains unfortunately fragile. Turns out the trust deficit, a...
View ArticleWhy the Hacktivists Are Winning
How do you hijack corporate culture, demoralize employees and derail multi-million dollar marketing campaigns? All too easily, it turns out. Fueled by the internet and the public’s growing distain for...
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