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Author Archives: John Hooker

  • On 26 May 2017, three men tried to defend a pair of teenage girls, one wearing a head scarf, when a self-described white nationalist shouted [...]

    Standing up to hate

    June 2, 2017
  • As a business students, it has been drilled into our minds that the primary purpose of  business is to create value for shareholders.  A recent [...]

    Self-serving financial advice

    May 31, 2017
  • I overheard two girls I know having a discussion. One girl, whom I will call Maria, wanted to go out on the town alone. This was against her [...]

    Lying to parents

    May 15, 2017
  • Mohammed wants to sell his old laptop, which he has owned for a year and a half. Having bought a new one, he took the old laptop to a reseller. [...]

    Selling laptop with tired battery

    May 15, 2017
  • 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

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