Stuart Rose, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer is, well, unconventional. For the past few years, his company has lagged behind arch rivals such as Tesco and AS DA in the fight to lead the British retail industry. Instead of battling to increase M&S market share by cutting the bottom line or smearing his [...]

Q1-2008 – Issue Focus: Asia-Pacific and Construction

The World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution made up of 185 member countries that fights poverty in the developing world. I n Fiscal Y ear 2007, the Bank made loans, grants, and risk guarantees totaling US $24.7 billion to more than 100 developing and middle-income countries with the aim of helping [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days? 01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS. [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days? 01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS. [...]

Tools for Ethical Leadership // Big Shot CEO Let’s face it—any magazine worth anything these days has a new products or ‘gear’ section. In advance of each issue of Ethisphere, the editors send me a bucket load of products to try out. Some products are good. Some hurt. Some I barely even know what they [...]

// BY ALEXANDRA WRAGE Imagine the following scenario: A Greek diplomat arrives in Washington and finds that his furniture and household items have been held up in customs at the Port of Baltimore. The Greek official dispatches his driver with $300 and tells him to spread the money among low-level port officials to secure the [...]

// LEONTIEN PLUGGE AND KATHERINE MILES HILL Sustainability reporting in the supply chain Typically, sustainability reporting is considered the domain of large, multinational companies. In our increasingly interconnected world, it is now being embraced by the small and medium sized businesses that supply them, as well. What are the drivers of this interest, what challenges [...]

// GAIL DUTTON Providing jobs is no longer good enough, as Nike tries to improve lives as well as profits. Improving lives is a key step in improving profits when you work in the developing world. Nike learned this first hand by collaborating with suppliers to limit overtime, ensure freedom of association and extend other [...]

// BY COLIN DYER – CEO, JONES LANG LASALLE Jones Lang LaSalle was recently awarded Ethics Inside Certification from the Ethisphere Institute in honor of its robust ethics and compliance systems. Here’s an inside look at how the company implements its ethics program from the top down, on a day-to-day basis. As the world’s leading [...]

Welcome to South Africa, commonly referred to as “The Rainbow Nation.” The developing country’s nickname, describing its aspirations of a unified and multicultural society, creates a purposefully metaphorical counter to its historical struggles with racial separatism and inequality. Seen by many as the standout on a continent of emerging markets, South Africa accounts for nearly [...]

// BY DOUG ALLEN Companies that take a wholehearted approach to developing their Code of Conduct often demonstrate the same commitment to their entire ethics and compliance program. As devotees of Ethisphere are aware, each issue of the magazine features 50 Codes of Conduct benchmarked and assessed. Some of those codes are great, and others [...]

// BY LAURA P. HARTMAN, PATRICIA WERHANE AND DENNIS MOBERG In late January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Gates said he was an “impatient optimist” about the alleviation of global poverty. We want to ask him, what took you so long? Gates shared with his rapt audience a novel scheme he [...]