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	<description>CORPORATION, REPUTATION, AND SOCIETY</description>
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		<title>The Currency of Good Intentions</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2010/06/15/the-currency-of-good-intentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I&#8217;m sorry, so sorry, please accept my apologeeee. . .”
- Brenda Lee
In 1970, an insipid but highly successful movie called “Love Story,” based on an equally successful and insipid novel of the same name, lit up American screens. The plot line was exactly this: Sensitive Harvard students fall in love. Girl gets cancer and dies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologizing and Taking Responsibility &#8212; They’re Not the Same.</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2010/04/21/apologizing-and-taking-responsibility-they%e2%80%99re-not-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apology is in season. Chuck Prince, former Citi CEO, was apologizing recently–up to a point. He told a Washington commission looking into the roots of the financial crisis: “I can only say that I am deeply sorry that our management &#8211; starting with me &#8211; was not more prescient and that we did not foresee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“CONCEPTS OF CONVENIENCE” AND THE DISEASE OF INSULARITY</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2010/03/14/%e2%80%9cconcepts-of-convenience%e2%80%9d-and-the-disease-of-insularity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["No One Would Listen”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Lo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concept of Convenience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insularity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markopolos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ratings agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repo 105]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toyota]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The report on Lehman’s fall released this week revealed more than Lehman’s predilection for ill-advised financial engineering. Issued by a former prosecutor working on behalf of the Justice Department, the report detailed Lehman’s use of a stratagem called Repo 105 to remove $50 billion from its balance sheet for a short period of time—time that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Pharma Abuses Persist? It&#8217;s the Business Model, Stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2010/01/17/why-do-pharma-abuses-persist-its-the-business-model-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AstraZeneca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bextra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eli Lilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pfizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seroquel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vioxx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca recently reached agreement with the U.S. government to pay over half a billion dollars for its improper marketing of schizophrenia drug, Seroquel. CEO David Brennan told the Wall St. Journal that off-label marketing (the effort to sell drugs for unapproved uses) “is a much bigger issue in the last few years as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Choices</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/11/29/strange-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anglo-Saxon Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Business Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinochet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvador Allende]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chairman of a great European corporation recently gave an interview in which he tried to justify his company’s refusal to offer financial reports at the quarterly intervals customary in most developed markets. His company—a household name worldwide—reports just twice a year. The Chairman sought to explain this longer reporting cycle by suggesting that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RISE OF THE VALUES-BASED CONSUMER</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/11/03/rise-of-the-values-based-consumer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Exception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerzema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PG&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values-based Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walmart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young & Rubicam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In CRISIS OF CHARACTER, whose official publication date is today, I wrote about the rise of the socially-conscious consumer who wants to know whether a product he or she may buy harms the environment, or whether foreign workers—perhaps even children—have been abused in its manufacture. I wrote that people are beginning to choose companies with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Not. . . Considering the Chief Executive&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/09/24/judge-not-considering-the-chief-executives-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Reputation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decade of the Darkside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Thain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reputation Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Fuld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Structural Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vioxx]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peterfirestein.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the world observes the anniversary of the financial meltdown—represented most starkly by the fall of Lehman Brothers—a great deal of anger still flows to the individuals whose actions appear to have contributed to the debacle: Not only Lehman’s Richard Fuld, but John Thain, those at the top of AIG, and others.
Business leaders as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity for Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/07/13/authenticity-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharine Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharine Weymouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Public Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nixon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peterfirestein.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the 1960s and 1970s Katharine Graham, the intrepid publisher of the Washington Post, held dinners in her Georgetown home for the liberal and intellectual elite of Washington. In those days, that meant a gathering of the post-war masters of statecraft, leading newspaper columnists, select politicians, and key policymakers. In many cases, the ideas that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Sides of Corporate Secrecy</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/06/26/the-two-sides-of-corporate-secrecy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/06/26/the-two-sides-of-corporate-secrecy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investor communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investor rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The testy exchanges between Apple and its investors around disclosure of Steve Jobs’ medical condition brings a fine resolution to the question of what information companies owe investors and what the latter have a right to expect. Apple has traditionally made high art out of controlled disclosure. The secrecy that surrounds the introduction of succeeding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporation, Reputation, and Society</title>
		<link>http://www.peterfiresteinblog.com/2009/06/11/78/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Firestein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca-Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Perception Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiananmen Square]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You are reading the first lines of a new blog dedicated to a discussion of the changing relationship between corporations and society. Well before the credit bubble burst, the revolution in information technology brought an uninvited transparency to corporate life&#8212;and changed it forever. The unprecedented ability of anyone with a computer and an internet connection [...]]]></description>
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