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Some Of America’s Largest Companies Not On “Most Ethical” List

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Ethisphere released its annual list of “The World’s Most Ethical Companies.”  The research identified 100 companies. A committee of  leading attorneys, professors, government officials and organization leaders put together the criteria. After that, the survey seems to be fixed in the favor of a limited group of corporations. Ethisphere says “companies across the world submitted their applications to become 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies.” What happens to ethical companies that don’t submit applications? Then “semi-finalist companies were notified and given an in-depth survey questionnaire to fill out about their ethics and compliance program, governance and corporate responsibility.” That is another means of making certain that the universe of candidates is not complete

Several large American companies did not make the cut: Apple (AAPL), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Wal-Mart (WMT), Apple (AAPL), AT&T (T), and all of the large US banks and investment banks. At least Google (GOOG) made the list.

The winners:

2010 WORLD’S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES:

Harris Corporation

Rockwell Collins Inc.

Comme Il Faut

Nike

Patagonia

Barrett Jackson Auction Company

Cummins

Ford Motor Company

Johnson Controls

Rabobank

Standard Chartered Bank

Westpac Banking Corporation

Accenture

Noblis

Pitney Bowes

Dun & Bradstreet

Paychex

Ashland

Dow Corning Corporation

Ecolab

Flint Hills Resources

Hewlett-Packard Company

Adobe Systems

Salesforce.com

Symantec

Teradata

CH2M Hill

CRH

Fluor

Granite Construction

Parsons

Ricoh

Xerox

Henkel

Kao

L’ORÉAL

Mattel

General Electric Co.

Freescale Semiconductor

Texas Instruments

Energy and Utilities

Duke Energy

FPL Group

National Grid

Sempra Energy

Wisconsin Energy Corporation

Waste Management

American Express

The Hartford

The Principal Financial Group

Campbell Soup Company

General Mills

PepsiCo

Solae

ARAMARK

Sodexo

Trader Joe’s

Wegmans

Whole Foods Market

International Paper

Stora Enso Oyj

Svenska Cellulosa

Weyerhaeuser

Cleveland Clinic

Hospital Corporation of America

J M Smith Corporation

Johns Hopkins

Premier

Rezidor Hotel Group

Wyndham Worldwide

Caterpillar

Deere & Company

Eaton

Milliken and Company

Rockwell Automation

Timken

Aflac

Swiss Re

Wisconsin Physicians Service

Google

Zappos

Thomson Reuters

Time Warner

Becton, Dickinson and Company

Royal Philips

AstraZeneca

Novo Nordisk

Jones Lang LaSalle

Starbucks Coffee Company

Best Buy

Gap

IKEA

Target

Ten Thousand Villages

Avaya

Cisco Systems

T-Mobile

Vodafone Group

Nippon Yusen Kabushi Kaisha

UPS

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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