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Author Archives: John Hooker

  • Protests such as those of Black Lives Matter often disrupt the lives of others and may incite violence, even when a peaceful demonstration is [...]

    Is street protest ethical?

    October 4, 2016
  • “Advantage players” use card counting and other techniques to boost their winnings in casinos.  Card counting is the practice of memorizing [...]

    Card counting in casinos

    September 14, 2016
  • Amazon requires warehouse workers to wait in long lines, without pay, to be searched for stolen goods before they are allowed to go home. The [...]

    Labor abuse at Amazon

    October 27, 2015
  • I work in a company with few women in leadership roles.  One of my colleagues, who is female, joined the firm about a year ago.  She is [...]

    Too friendly with subordinate of opposite sex

    September 6, 2015
  • The overly aggressive tax system in the US is increasingly driving individuals to abdicate their citizenship. There are Federal, state and local [...]

    Fleeing taxes

    September 6, 2015
  • Diwali is a very big festival in India, and it is customary for companies to send gifts/sweets/cards to customers. Typically my company sends the [...]

    Gifts to customers

    September 6, 2015
  • I recently traveled to Colorado for a company project, and a colleague (whom I will call Lee) joined me 2 days after my arrival. To save company [...]

    Report expense padding?

    September 5, 2015
  • I was working as a U.S. management consultant in a south Asian country with a strong tribal tradition and a relationship-based culture. Decades [...]

    Demand for bribe money

    September 5, 2015
  • In a for-profit healthcare environment, we are constantly in a balancing act between doing what’s right for our patients and what’s [...]

    Medicaid vs privately-insured patients

    September 5, 2015
  • As an employee of a technology company, I help to build tools that accelerate the pace of engineering and science. Our clients include [...]

    Manufacturing weapons

    September 5, 2015

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