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...people - inside and outside business - are wondering the same thing. Welcome to Big Oil's latest innovation: the ethics road show. Total, one of the world's top five oil companies - formed by Total's 1999 merger with Belgium's Petrofina and then with French rival Elf Aquitaine - is bringing this traveling philosophy seminar to its subsidiaries in 35 countries across the world, from Angola to Belgium. (It will make a stop in the U.S. next year.) The goal is to drive home to managers everywhere that Total, with $122 billion in annual revenues, has a new goal besides making...
...business. Evidence of alleged bad behavior abounds: this year alone, a U.S. consultant and a former Exxon Mobil executive have been indicted in New York City, the chairman of Norway's Statoil resigned amid bribery charges and a former chief executive and two senior officials of France's Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total - were convicted in Paris, all for separate corruption-related offenses. Unlike consumer-products companies such as Nike, which moved relatively quickly to deal with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell...
...other men in Elf (Will Farrell, Bob Newhart) wear tights. But not you. What gives...
...playing the biological father of an elf a good choice...
...turned the title down. I said, "I'm not doing anything called Elf." But once I read it, it was great. Plus, the tights thing we cleared...