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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Total Makeover | 11/30/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Total Makeover | 11/30/2003 | See Source »

...other men in Elf (Will Farrell, Bob Newhart) wear tights. But not you. What gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with James Caan | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...playing the biological father of an elf a good choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with James Caan | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with James Caan | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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