One news story does not a bad company make.
One incident of racism does not a racist company make.
One incident, in which a Wal-Mart store stalls for 2 hours after being presented with a cheque for a corporate purchase by a well-dressed black man with lots of I.D., dos not necessarily mean racism.
None the less, check out this story in the Saint Petersburg Times.
Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is an educator, speaker, and consultant in the realm of business ethics. He teaches at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he is Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre.
Chris is former Interim Director of the Ted Rogers MBA at Ryerson.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics.
MacDonald is also co-author of the (free, online) Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
He is a "Most Viewed Writer" on Quora, for the topics Business Ethics, CSR, and Ethical Dilemmas.
Chris has three times been declared one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior", and has several times been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.
He is also co-founder of Choice Point Solutions, Inc., a small consultancy offering custom text-based simulations to help organizations train employees for better decision-making.
He has been writing The Business Ethics Blog since November of 2005.
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[Prof. Wayne Norman, Duke University]
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[Prof. Laura Hartman, DePaul University]
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