Follow Up to Week 3

In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be moving on from "pure" governance questions to ethics, and one of the topics will be the Fair Trade movement. And coincidentally, it's Halloween time and there's a growing media buzz surrounding Fair Trade candy and celebrating a "Green Halloween"! And there's even a new trend called "Reverse Trick or Treating" that's catching on.

The consequences of Fair Trade for large firms can be seen clearly since they are the most obvious targets for criticism. Just ask Hershey's.

What's a candy-giving parent to do? Maybe identifying who is "good" and "bad" isn't as easy as choosing a product with a green label or a "certification seal"? 

To close, here's a set of "quick hits" sent in from members of the class concerning topics we've discussed:


There was a lot of interest in the Satyam case following the team presentations on this company--and here's a link to the remarkable "confession letter" of the company's CEO and Chairman, Ramalinga Raju.


From Simon Brown, a very interesting article on the new "politics" of corporate giving, which will be useful for our look into the ethics of the CSR movement.


From Christopher Wienand, two articles on Occupy Wall Street: first, a critical text describing what the movement gets wrong, and secondly, a hard-hitting piece from Rolling Stone "Wall Street isn't winning it's cheating."