// BY Jerry Moskowitz Once a niche investment strategy, Responsible Investment (RI) has become a priority for individual and institutional investors globally. In the wake of corporate scandals, and the tightening of carbon emissions standards over the past decade, investors have begun to seriously evaluate the environmental, social and corporate governance risks within their portfolios. [...]

//BY Charles B. Sklarsky and Gabriel A. Fuentes Just when you thought the discovery phase of complex corporate litigation was dangerous enough, along came Qualcomm v. Broadcom, and with it came plenty of lessons for in-house and retained counsel. Background The Qualcomm case, pending in federal court in San Diego, involves allegations by Qualcomm that [...]

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 Stefan Linssen In 2005, at an Amkor chemical testing facility in Muntilupa City in the Philippines, a hired consultant was reviewing the status of an elaborate qualifications test for a new electroplating solution. The solution, known as ST380, was part of a $265 million research and development budget. If the test [...]

Alex Dimitrief - Vice President and Senior Counsel, Litigation and Legal Policy – General Electric

// By Joseph Holt The view of profits as a necessary and desired result of accomplishing the central purpose of a company rather than being that purpose itself is reflected in the comments of Costco CEO and co-founder Jim Sinegal in a Wall Street Journal interview. When asked to respond to the complaint on Wall [...]

Not long ago, at an anti-bribery conference in Chicago, the compliance officer for an American corporation told the crowd of fellow compliance officers, “You have to start out with the assumption that all marketing people are more or less criminals. You have got to pen them in with a set of rules as clear and [...]

If you’ve heard anything of booming global markets in the past few years, chances are that there has been some mention of the United Arab Emirates. This young nation comprised of seven Arabian states has experienced tremendous growth since its founding in 1971, in large part due to abundant natural resources, moderate foreign policy and [...]

// By Rebecca Short According to a new report released by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) titled “Count Me In–The Readers’ Take on Sustainability Reporting”, 90 percent of those who’ve read company sustainability reports admit that their opinions of a company change after viewing the report. Of that group, 85 percent said they had a [...]

What do you do when disaster strikes? The first instinct we have as human beings is to seek cover and hunker down. But when a crisis hits a business, it is crucial for its leaders to remain visible. This may sound simple, but as CEO of the world’s largest toymaker, I can tell you it’s [...]

// By Douglas Allen In the past year or so, Ethisphere has put over 500 Codes of Conduct under the microscope, and in our reports we’ve highlighted some excellent Codes and some that, frankly, have plenty of room for improvement. Happily, several organizations whose Codes did not fare well against our benchmarking methodology have returned [...]

In the UK we have coined the phrase “the race to the bottom” to sum up the practice of western retailers and their foreign contractors cutting corners—seemingly at all costs—to keep margins down and profits up.

Q2-2008 – Issue Focus: Advertising & Marketing and Telecommunication

Who says diamonds are a girl’s best friend? Sterling Jewelers gets a PAPER BAG after 15 of the company’s current and former workers filed a class-action lawsuit against Sterling for allegedly underpaying its female employees and passing them over for promotions. One of the former employees involved in the lawsuit says she was fired after [...]

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