Federal investigators finally concluded that the calamity that happened in the Gulf of Mexico on 20, April 2010, was primarily the consequence of British Petroleum’s reckless decision to take shortcuts. In spite of the tremendous risk of pumping gas and oil from 18,000 foot deep well, BP forced the workers to take shortcuts to restore the losses created by delays–ultimately causing death of 11 workers, an oil spill that took 87 days to finally regain control, and most importantly, an unrecoverable destruction of their reputation. The Federal Report cited seven different violations of federal regulations in this accident, and even though BP acknowledged its crime, it still argued that there were other contributors to this disaster—Transocean and Halliburton. These three companies are still in the process of blaming one another for the major causes of the accident, and yet problems regarding oil pollution and law suit of dead workers remain unsolved. If these companies had paid a little bit more attention to “business ethics” that they like to stress all the time, such accident may have never occurred. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/earth/15spill.html?_r=1&ref=global
