| Summary: | “Ethics in America” is a ten-part television series in which panels of leading politicians, lawyers, journalists, doctors, business people, and philosophers discuss the ethical issues of hypothetical scenarios in politics, the media, medicine, law, and other areas. “Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover” is an episode of the series and it inquires about ethics in business. Presenter: Fred W. Friendly (Columbia University). Moderator of the discussion: Lewis Caden (Columbia Law School). Participants: Robert E. Mercer (Chairman and CEO, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Inc), Jane Bryan Quinn (Financial Columnist, Newsweek Magazine), James Bere (Chairman and CEO, Borg-Warner Corporation), Warren Buffet (Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.), Joseph H. Flom (Attorney), Arthur Liman (Attorney), T. Boone Pickens Jr. (General Partner, Mesa Ltd. Partnership), Rudolph W. Giuliani (U.S. Attorney, Southern District of NY), Senator Timothy E. Wirth (Colorado), Edward Jay Epstein (Author, EJE Publications), Lester C. Thurow (Dean, Sloan School of Management/MIT), Harrison J. Goldin (New York City Comptroller), Sir James Goldsmith, and John F. Gutfreund (Chairman and CEO, Salomon Brothers).
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