Management: This Is Our Failure

A discreet silence has been the chief public response of big business to the ethical questions raised by such recent scandals as the electrical equipment conspiracy. Last week that silence was shattered by one of the biggest of the big: Henry Ford, 43, chairman of Ford Motor Co. and a director of one of the indicted electrical firms, General Electric. Speaking before the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, Ford decried the tendency of business caught in dishonest acts to blame "a few bad apples" or to complain about persecution by the Government. Said he: "There is...

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