Partners

The research-based Ethisphere Institute and associated membership group, the Ethisphere Council, are supported by more than 100 institutions and corporations, including various Partners and Keystone Partners.

The Institute is dedicated to the research, creation, and sharing of best practices in ethics, compliance, and corporate governance among its membership companies. It also focuses on the development and advancement of individuals on its membership council through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine is the quarterly publication of the Institute.

So who exactly are the Ethisphere Institute’s partners?

Keystone Partners

Corpedia

Corpedia, Inc., founded in 1998, offers a wide variety of innovative and user-friendly programs, software tools, and consulting to help organizations effectively address legal compliance and ethics issues.

Developed and implemented by a team of experts with years of experience and industry insight, our compliance risk assessment solutions identify, quantify and provide actionable plans for mitigating and preventing compliance breakdowns.

Thomson Reuters

Since being founded by John B. West in 1872, Thomson Reuters has been at the leading edge of innovation. Many Thomson Reuters innovations have become synonymous with the successful practice of law, including:

• The West Topic and Key Number System, the master classification system of U.S. law
• Westlaw®, the industry-leading service, with 16,700 legal, financial and business news databases
• KeyCite®, the revolutionary citation research service

Today, Thomson Reuters delivers a powerful competitive advantage to its customers by providing the highest-quality legal, regulatory and business information and the most innovative technology tools to manage it. In addition to being the home of Westlaw, Thomson Reuters annually publishes over 66 million books and 500 CD-ROM libraries.

National Association of Corporate Directors

Founded in 1977, NACD is a national non-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to serving the corporate governance needs of corporate boards and individual board members. NACD’s 17,500 members and customers represent companies ranging from Fortune 100 public companies to small, over-the-counter, closely held, and private firms.

NACD promotes high professional board standards, creates forums for peer interaction, enhances director effectiveness, communicates and monitors the policy interests of directors, conducts benchmarking research, and educates boards and directors concerning traditional and cutting-edge issues.

TRACE International

TRACE is a non-profit membership association that specializes in anti-bribery due diligence reviews and compliance training for international commercial intermediaries (sales agents and representatives, consultants, distributors, suppliers, etc.). TRACE member intermediaries are “pre-vetted” partners for multinational companies seeking to do business with entities that share their commitment to transparent business practices.

Partners

Board Member Inc.

Corporate Board Member magazine is an information resource for senior officers and directors of publicly traded corporations, top private companies, and Global 1000 firms. Each issue provides readers with decision-making tools to help them deal with the challenges confronting their boards. Topics include corporate governance, board trends and best practices, director compensation, director liability, board education, board size and make-up issues, management succession, recruiting directors, board advisors, shareholder activism, and audit committee issues.

Intertek

Intertek is the leading international provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of global and local industries.

Our services take us into almost every field imaginable, such as textiles, toys, electronics, building, heating, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, food and cargo scanning. We operate a global network of laboratories and offices with over 20,000 people in more than 100 countries around the world.

Beacon

Beacon Events is an international business services company focused on conferences, exhibitions and management training. Spun off from the Institute for International Research’s (IIR) Asia team, the world’s leading knowledge and skill transfer company, Beacon Events has an expanding portfolio of large-scale events.

Open SRI

OpenSRI is the first collaborative web platform on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at www.opensri.com. The project is supported by Intertek Group.

OpenSRI offers a new approach to CSR rating based on the involvement of stakeholders, who will rate the social and environmental performance of companies. The objective is to create an ‘innovative and interactive tool’ that will foster dialogue on issues between companies and their stakeholders.