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The Ethics of the Financial Services Industry

Social Media Special Feature

Social Media Special Feature As a follow up to the Institute's Social Media Roundtable, we continue to pay attention to the discussion of Social Media and the Enterprise going on throughout the media and blogosphere.

Click here to see the discussion.

Upcoming Events, September 2013

Institute for Enterprise Ethics, Boardroom

The Institute will host a CSR and Sustainability Discussion Forum on the topic of "Vetting the Sustainable Supply Chain" on September 12th. The Forum will be led by Professor Bahman Ebrahimi of the Daniels College of Business. Our next Ethics and Compliance Roundtable will be on September 19th, and the topic is "Incentive Compensation and Ethical Behavior" with Peter Miterko, of Pearl & Meyer Partners.

Please contact Ann Schafer for additional information.

For a full list of upcoming events, please click here.

Peer Pressure, Group Think and the Macondo Disaster

At a recent Ethics Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Enterprise Ethics the power of peer pressure to nurture and sustain a culture of ethical decision making was discussed. We also touched on the potential for one/some of a group of trusted peers to be able to sway a group to a high risk/unethical decision. Bloomberg's recent reporting on the ongoing trial for the BP Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is a good example of this potential, resulting in serious consequences for not only the companies and people involved, but for regulators and the industry as a whole. More...

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	Rio + 20: What Have We Learned? On March 15, 2013 a group of practicing and academic experts in various field of sustainability gathered to recognize the 20^th anniversary of the 1992 Rio “Earth Summit” and discuss what we may have learned over the past two decades. After several hours of lively discussion the experts offered some brief concluding remarks on the conversation. Click here for a summary of those comments. The Ethics Risk Assessment What are the signals that an organization is more or less vulnerable to ethical breaches? What are the indications that a bit more scrutiny may be warranted in monitoring the ethical behavior of the organization? What red or even yellow flags should suggest that a more formal assessment of the organization’s ethical risk profile might be in order? Click here for more. How do you make your business one of the world's most ethical companies? Hitachi Data Systems is one of the Ethisphere Institute’s World’s Most Ethical Companies. Their Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs gives presents a precise, step-by-step approach to achieving this recognition covering topics from board oversight to structuring a compliance program, to tone at the top and communication. Click here to read the entire article originally published in the International In-house Counsel Journal. Sustainability in the Boardroom “By the end of 2012, 53 percent of the companies on the S&P 500Index had published sustainability reports….” And, over 80 of the world’s largest global companies are piloting integrated reporting combining both financial and non-financial performance reporting in a single document. It appears the pressure is on. What does this mean for boards of directors? According to the NACD it means “more scrutiny, more disclosure and more audits” as directors work to protect all the companies assets not just for today, but for tomorrow also.