Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – March 5
Mar 08, 2010
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending March 5, 2010.
Post-Olympics
- The Canadian Press carried a national feature on the green-ness of the 2010 Winter Olympics: “Lindsay Meredith, a marketing professor at Simon Fraser University said he is growing more convinced that some of the green efforts are real, but that the real gauge of whether corporate efforts are just ‘greenwash’ will come after the Games. “‘I’m not looking for everybody to turn into green knights overnight. . . . On the other hand, a lot of people are saying “Fine, show me and it better be real, and it better be concrete and it better not be inconsequential.”’”
BC News
- Ethics prof Mark Wexler of SFU Business was on CBC Radio talking about how lenient Canada is with white-collar crooks such as Ian Thow of Victoria. Thow pleaded guilty this week to defrauding 20 investors of $8 million, and was sentenced to nine years. Said Wexler: “These lives he pulverized; and the fact that this individual lived high and lived so well, and will probably be back on the streets in 22 months, indicates that something’s wrong here.” Wexler said of Thow’s victims: “Elderly, uninsured and psychologically very vulnerable. They trusted him . . . and he smacked them in the face.”