The World’s Leading Ethical Companies

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

IBM (Technology), Intel Corp (Technology) and HSBC Holdings (Banks) top this year’s edition of the Covalence Ethical Ranking which covers 581 multinationals representing 18 different sectors.
The ranking measures qualitative data on 45 criteria including labor standards, waste management, social utility and human rights policy. And because it is a reputation index, the Covalence survey also [...]

The World Forum Lille 2009 Report

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

They say that « money leads the world », but where to? After “Diversity” in 2007 and the “Protection of the Planet” in 2008, the 3rd edition of World Forum Lille took place on the 19th, 20th and 21st of November 2009 and was dedicated to “Sustainable Finance.”
The financial crisis has revealed also a crisis [...]

Values for the Post-Crisis Economy

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Georgetown University, has just published the report “Faith and the Global Agenda: Values for the Post-Crisis Economy.” The current economic crisis has warned us to fundamentally rethink the development of the moral framework and regulatory mechanisms that underpin our economy, politics and global interconnectedness.
The report is based on [...]

Special Issue Ethics and Entrepreneurship in Journal of Business Venturing

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The Journal of Business Venturing this month published a special issue about ethics and entrepreneurship, edited by Jared D. Harris, Harry J. Sapienza and Norman E. Bowie.

As the editors say in the introduction to the articles, “A large number of excellent papers were considered for this special issue. In the end, the eight papers selected [...]