彭博社：安利利用哈佛大学成就与中国的关系(14)

　　荣誉市民

　　德·狄维士，安利主席，在4月出版的哈佛商业评论中发表了一篇文章，他讲述了安利公司与中国的经验：“我们需要证明，在中国，安利将是一个长期的光荣企业公民”。这篇文章并没有提及肯尼迪学院与安利的关系。

　　中国不是唯一让安利有危机的地方。在美国，联邦贸易委员会FTC调查安利公司在上世纪70年代其销售人员可能虚假宣传安利潜在的利润。1979年，FTC发现安利不是金字塔计划（传销），但是命令该公司停止进行收入的误导并固定价格，还令其揭示其销售人员的平均收入。

　　根据安利公司的最新数据，一个活跃的美国销售员平均一个月挣202元。安利的斯科特·贝尔福说，安利不会在中国发布此类信息！

　　2010 年，安利同意解决前直销商在美国加州提起的集体诉讼，他们指称安利是一个金字塔传销计划。安利同意支付5500万美元现金和免费的产品以和解官司， 并花费价值1亿美元修订其商业行为，但是安利不承认他的不法行为。

　　‘Honorable Citizen’

　　“We needed to demonstrate that Amway would be a long-term honorable corporate citizen in China,” Doug DeVos, Amway’s president, wrote in an article chronicling the company’s China experiences that was published in the April issue of the Harvard Business Review. The article doesn’t mention Amway’s connection to the Kennedy School.

　　China isn’t the only place Amway has had crises. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission investigated the company in the 1970s for price fixing and misrepresentation of the potential profits salespeople could make. The FTC in 1979 found that Amway was not a pyramid scheme but ordered the company to stop making misleading earnings claims and fixing prices and to disclose information on the average income for its salespeople.

　　Active U.S. salespeople earn an average of $202 a month, according to the most recent company figures. Balfour says Amway doesn’t publish such information for China.

　　In 2010, Amway agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former distributors in California, alleging that it was a pyramid scheme. Amway agreed to pay $55 million in cash and free products and overhaul some business practices at a cost of $100 million, without admitting wrongdoing.