“This program gives us opportunity to learn from each other and to be mindful of the professional values we share in teaching and through our example,” said ten Have, who also serves as secretary of the international organization. “Ethics provide the foundation for how we conduct ourselves, and this conference offers a chance for us
Read about a fledgling project, seemingly unprecedented in North America, to routinely involve ethics professionals in the moral conundrums of the emergency ward, health care’s most hectic, time-crunched environment.
“Corporate involvement in the Olympic Games continues to expand in size and significance. This year, the 2012 London Olympics will boast sponsorship on hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate sponsorship and tie-ins. But as the corporate money flooding into the Games increases, so too do the attendant ethical risks. For all the advantages of
“I was reminded recently that there’s a reason that PR people (and I count myself as one) are sometimes lumped with manipulators of the truth. That’s because a few misguided players can confuse the role of PR.PR used correctly, is rooted in transparency, not duplicity. PRSA, the largest US public relations professional organization, has a
The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). They assert that, despite criticisms of and debate about the value of CSR initiatives to society and to corporate profitability every company needs a CSR strategy. “Executive Summary: Despite certain criticisms, more and more companies in the world
An extract from a great piece by Nick Charney “The Atlantic published a great piece last week by Eric Garland entitled Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber, here’s a particularly powerful excerpt: “Hierarchical organizations have a very different logic than smaller firms. In less consolidated industries, success and failure are largely
Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.
The Canada Tibet Committee is hosting a historic Public Talk by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama on Saturday, 28 April at the Ottawa Civic Centre Arena. Doors open at 9:00 AM and the Public Talk will start at 10:00 AM.“Human rights, ethics, resource and opportunity equality are the most important issues we face today,
Justin Fox is editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street.In this blog he asked and answers the question.Do you agree with him?
“To whom should a company’s chief compliance officer (CCO) report? It’s a question that has ignited some surprisingly heated discussion lately.”