The Corporation Study Guide

1 Jane Akre, Whistle-blowing Fox reporter tried to caution public about synthetic hormone rBGH used in cows. Fired for her efforts, she sued Fox, won, then lost on appeal on a technicality. • 2 Ray Anderson, CEO Interface, world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer. Had an environmental epiphany and reorganized his 1.4 billion dollar company. • 3 Joe Badaracco, Prof. Of Business Ethics, Harvard Business School. In all his years teaching business, was never asked so pointedly what a corporation is. • 4 Maude Barlow, Chairperson, Council of Canadians. Privatization critic. We must re-define our relationship to nature, corporations and controlling institutions. • 5 Mark Barry, Competitive Intelligence Professional—ie. a corporate spy. Without guilt, uses deception to extract information from corporate executives. • 6 Elaine Bernard, Director, Labor Program, Harvard Business School. Morals over markets. We need to determine certain things shouldn’t be bought and sold. • 7 Edwin Black, Author, IBM and the Holocaust. Contends IBM’s exclusive technology accelerated the Holocaust with the knowledge of its CEO and other employees. • 8 Carlton Brown, Commodities Broker. Says gold traders had one thing on their minds as the twin towers burned. • 9 Noam Chomksy, Institute Professor MIT. When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. • 10 Chris Barrett & Luke McCabe, First “corporately-sponsored” university students. Convinced a bank, First USA, to pay both their $40,000 tuitions. • 11 Peter Drucker, The first management guru. Spoke with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson several times about IBM’s business relationship with the Third Reich. • 12 Dr. Samuel Epstein, Prof. emeritus, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, U of Illinois. One in every two men get cancer, and one in every three women get cancer. • 13 Andrea Finger, Spokesperson for Disney-built town of Celebration, population 5,000. Disney brand speaks of reassurance, it speaks of tradition, it speaks of quality. • 14 Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. Asking a corporation to be socially responsible makes no more sense than asking a building to be. • 15 Sam Gibara, Chairman, former CEO Goodyear Tire, world’s largest tire corporation. Says corporations today have more power than governments. • 16 Richard Grossman, Founder, POCLAD, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. POCLAD initiates dialogue on the authority of corporations to govern. • 17 Dr. Robert Hare, U. of British Columbia Psychology Professor and FBI’s top consulting psychologist on psychopaths. The corporation is the prototypical psychopath. • 18 Lucy Hughes, VP, Initiative Media, world’s largest media-buying corporation. Created Nag Factor study to help corporations get kids to nag their parents to buy. • 19 Ira Jackson, Director, Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School at Harvard. Author, Capitalism with a Conscience. • 20 Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee. By exposing Walmart and the Kathy Lee Gifford brand ’s labor practices, made the sweatshop abuses common knowledge. • 21 Robert Keyes, President and CEO, Canadian Council for International Business. Lobbies for business interests on t rade issues. Doesn’t like to use the word “corporation.” • 22 Mark Kingwell, Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Author.The primary question is: how do we make corporations democratically accountable? • 23 Naomi Klein, Author, “NO LOGO”, “Fences and Windows”. Branding aficionado. Branding isn’t advertising; it’s the new production. • 24 Tom Kline, VP Pfizer Inc. world’s largest pharmaceutical corporation, on a tour of Pfizer’s philanthropic initiatives near its Brooklyn factory. • 25 Chris Komisarjevsky, CEO Burson Marsteller Worldwide, a leading global PR agency. Helps big corporations “have a voice” and share “how they feel about things.” • 26 Dr. Susan Linn, Prof. Of Psychiatry, Baker Children’s Centre, Harvard. Critic of the Nag Factor study and of exploiting children’s developmental vulnerabilities. • 27 Robert Monks, CEO LENS; Founder, Institutional Shareholder Services; pioneering shareholder activist. Has headed a dozen publicly traded corporations. • 28 Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Former Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell. Presided over Shell during Brent Spar fiasco and the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other activists. • 29 Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, best-selling author. The problem is the profit motive:for corporations, there’s no such thing as “enough.” • 30 Oscar Olivera, The Coalition in Defense of Water and Life. Bolivian anti-water privatization activist. Trusts in the people’s capacity for “reflection. • 31 Jonathon Ressler, CEO Big Fat Inc. Undercover marketing specialist. Compares people influenced by his campaigns as“roaches” taking the “brand bait” and spreading it. • 32 Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economic Trends. Author of 16 books on the impacts of technology. Culture is primary. • 33 Dr. Vandana Shiva, Physicist, ecologist, feminist and seed activist. In every period of history... eventually, when you call a bluff, the tables turn. • 34 Clay Timon, CEO Landor and Associates Global branding specialists – Visa, Fedex, BP, etc. When Disney wants to market adult fare, they brand it Touchstone. • 35 Michael Walker, President, Fraser Institute. Sweatshops like Nike’s factories help the world’s poor get ‘plump and healthy.’ • 36 Robert Weissman, Editor, Multinational Monitor. Corporate crime specialist. Exposed the top 100 criminal corporations of the last decade. • 37 Steve Wilson, Whistle-blowing, fired Fox reporter who tried to caution public about synthetic hormone rBGH used in cows. • 38 Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President IBM, Technology and Strategy in IBM Servers. Dismisses Edwin Black’s allegations against IBM as having been “discredited.” • 39 Mary Zepernick, Coordinator, POCLAD, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. POCLAD initiates dialogue on the authority of corporations to govern. • 40 Howard Zinn, Historian, author, A People’s History of the United States. Fascism rose in Europe with the help of enormous corporations.