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...government's prestigious National Institutes of Health in Maryland, one of the inconveniences she found was being put onto a series of three-month contracts rather than a permanent one. Finding work in London, Dublin, Montreal and other foreign cities, by contrast, seems much easier. Vladimir Cordier, an unemployed French graduate, got a job within five days of arriving at London's Waterloo Station on a one-way Eurostar ticket, and was so elated that he even wrote a book about his experience in 2005. Its title: Finally...
...Europe, with an estimated $40 billion under management, that invest only in companies they consider socially responsible. "Investors want the best possible investment. Even if ethics is not their cup of tea, they consider companies that take into account good ethical principles to be well managed," says Jean-Pierre Cordier, the senior Total executive in charge of the ethics drive...
...corporate behavior post-Enron as part of their overall performance reviews. Total is playing to this crowd. "Investors want the best possible investment. Even if ethics is not their cup of tea, they consider companies that take into account good ethical principles to be well managed," says Jean-Pierre Cordier, the senior Total executive in charge of the ethics drive. A few years ago, Cordier says, many in the company would have viewed an ethics push as an unnecessary expense and a distraction. Now, he says, "everyone understands this is really a part of the business." Even so, such efforts...