“The Corporation”
(I realize this may seem a bit juvenile, but I want you to pay close attention to the film.)
I) What is a Corporation
1) What is a paradox of corporations?
2) What is a corporation?
II) Birth
1) What was the initial corporation designed to do?
2) Why is the corporate form a gift from the state?
3) How did the corporation become a person?
III) A Legal Person
1) Corporations are designed by law to be beholden to whom/what over whom?
2) “They have no soul to save, no body to incarcerate,” means what?
IV) Externalities
1) A corporation is an “_____________________ machine” like a shark is an eating machine.
2) Corporations get large and profitable to the extent that they can get others
to_____________________________.
V Case Histories
1) Personality Disorder Check List (World Health Organization)
A) First item on check list is:_________________________.
2) An example of this is harm to ____________________.
3) Liz Claiborn blouse/jacket sells for $_________. Workers paid________.
3) Starving desperate people have nothing to offer but __________________.
4) Nike Corporate documents show time down to the ____________________.
5) It takes _______ minutes to make a shirt. This equals how much of the
retail price?_____________
6) This is the science of ___________________ .
7) Personality Disorder Check list:
a) ___________________________________________________
b) ___________________________________________________
8) Workers get healthy and ____________, so not too desperate any more.
9) Harm to: ____________________________.
10) DDT tested? ____________________.
11) Industry knew about defects/cancers? ________________.
12) Personality Disorder Check list:
a)_________________________________________.
13) Harm to ___________________
14) Milk hormone called _____________ made by __________________.
15) Personality Disorder Check list:
a) ___________________________________________________
16) Hormone is bad for _______________, ___________________ and
_____________. Who is it good for?
17) Personality Disorder Check list:
a) ___________________________________________________
18) Harm to ______________________.
19) Who wants the river polluted? _______________________________.
20) Until environmental conditions become a _______________________…
traders won’t be concerned about them.
21) One corporation fined in the past decade is
_________________________________
22) Personality Disorder Check list:
a) ___________________________________________________
23) A person is falling off a high cliff, but the person thinks
_____________________________________________________
And the craft is doomed to failure because
__________________________________________________________________
24) Legacy of poison and diminishment of environment may be termed
inter-_______________________ ____________________.
VI) Pathology of Commerce
1) What is psychological diagnosis of a corporation? ____________________
2) Who bears moral responsibility for its behavior?
VII Monstrous Obligations
1) We must distinguish between the ________________________ and the ____________________.
2) Shell can devote $ to environmental issues, but it doesn’t stop it from __________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
VIII Mindset
1) Self destroying seeds are seen as an example of a
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
2) CEO of Interface Carpets read a book called ______________________________.
3) Companies are ___________________ what isn’t theirs. The day must come when _____________________________________________________________.
IX) Trading on 9-11
1) 9-11 caused ____________ to double in price and ______________________________________________________________.
X) Boundary Issues
1) The movement in the 14th century divided up the land is the _____________________________________.
2) The Enclosure movement led to dividing up the
a) _________________________,
b) _________________________,
c) _________________________.
3) “Why is wealth created only when ______________________________”?
4) “This isn’t wealth creation, it is __________________________________”.
5) Privatizing means taking it from _______________________ and giving it
to __________________________________________________.
6) Opposition view suggests that it would be good if a price ___________
_______________________________________________________________
because then _____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
XI Basic Training
1) The “Nag Factor” tries to _______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________.
2) _________% of purchases would not have occurred with out kids nagging.
3) You can ____________________________ people into _______________
___________________________.
4) Advertising plays to kids’ _______________________________________.
XII Perception Management
1) Burson Marsteller is __________________________________________
whose clients include _____________________________ and
___________________.
2) “If my kids asked me what I do, I’d say __________________________
______________________________________________________________.”
XIII) Like a Good Neighbor
1) Corporations help communities, such as sponsoring a _______________.
At the same time, though, they work to ________________________________
and _________________________________________________________.
XIV Private Celebration
1) Companies moving from producing something to producing the brand ______________________________________________________.
XV) Triumph of the Shill
Real life product placement.
1) If it makes your life a little better, you should say “__________________”.
XIV) Advancing the Front
1) The landmark case is the ________________________________ case.
2) This case allowed corporations to patent _____________________.
3) US Customs Court said you can ________________________________
_______________________________________________________________.
4) Two competing views of life:
a) that life has ___________________________ value
b) that life has ________________________________ value.
XV) Unsettling Accounts
1) “The Investigators” first show was to be on _______________________
___________________________.
2) Who objected to the story? ______________________________________.
3) Re write process was how long ____________ with ________ rewrites.
4) Judgment in favor of reporters reversed because ___________________
_______________________________________________________________.
XVI) Expansion Path
1) The country of _______________ was told to privatize its water.
2) ___________________________ corporation got the contract.
3) Had the control even over the _________________________________.
4) Opposition slogan was _______________________________________.
5) Is it narcissism to see ________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________?
6) __________________ company kept profits growing in Nazi Germany by
inventing ____________________.
7) __________ computing company profited in Nazi Germany by designing software for ________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
8) The company had to service the machines in places like ________________
__________________________________________________________________.
XVII) Hostile Takeover
1) US Corporations sought to overthrow President ___________________.
2) General _____________________________ no longer wanted to be
“a _________________ for _____________________”.
3) Do corporations need to control government any more?___________.
4) Corporations now occupy the _____________________________ and
capitalists are the new ________________________________________.
XVIII) Democracy Ltd
1) Corporations have accountability to __________________________.
2) “If they do bad, they will be punished in ________________________”.
3) Why do corporations do ‘corporate social responsibility’? _____________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________.
XIX) Psycho Therapies
1) Agreement is made with ______________________________________ clothing company.
2) To challenge corporations we can revoke _______________________.
3) The ______________________ in California was challenged on the basis of
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
4) The towns of _______________________ and ______________________
in PA have adopted ordinances that eliminate a corporation’s ability to _________
_________________________________________________________________.
5) In India, protesters showed that the corporations were the ______________________.
6) “To bring back community, we have the tools to do so, we need _________
___________________________________”.
7) “Do I know you well enough to call you _________________________”?
8) “We must create a new ________________________________________”.
9) In Bolivia what happened? _____________________________________.
