Advocates for Ethics in Business (Interview Series)
Julia Taylor Kennedy, Devin T. Stewart
Carnegie Council's Advocates for Ethics in Business is a unique series of interviews that includes conversations with business, civil society, and academic leaders. Through their discussions, these leaders share innovative ideas, examine the role of business in society, and address the ethical considerations connected to conducting business globally.
The goal is to explore the ethical principles of business's responsibility to society, and to provide examples of best practices that help address stubborn ethical problems that organizations face. The world's best companies have enjoyed success partly because their competitive management systems deal with these problems globally, while their less successful competitors have been dealing with them on an ad hoc basis. Meanwhile, internal change agents have expressed the need for outside pressure for corporate reform.
Among other topics, the conversations touch on environmental sustainability, supply chain analysis, labor standards, and corporate giving as part of business identity creation. They also address the potential impacts on revenue that can accompany ethical business practices.
This interview series will be used for podcast and educational materials. It will also be made available to public radio stations.
By presenting these resources to companies, business schools, and interested listeners, Carnegie Council aims to strengthen the ethical component of management systems, having a potentially positive impact on corporate reform. These conversations will be made available free of charge to tens of thousands of podcast subscribers and students, and will attract an engaged and motivated audience of leaders of business, consulting, finance, governments, media, and NGOs.
These interviews, conducted by Julia Kennedy, will be posted on the website and as podcasts every Tuesday through the summer of 2009.
Here is the schedule:
- June 16, Christine Bader, Advisor to John Ruggie, UN/Harvard
- June 23, Sujeesh Krishnan and Euan Murray, Carbon Trust
- June 30, George Pohle, CEO, MediaBound
- July 07, Hans Decker, Executive-in-Residence, Columbia University
- July 14, Sarah Greenberg, Team Lead for the (ESG) North American Account Management Team, RiskMetrics
- July 21, Alice Korngold, President and CEO of Korngold Consulting
- July 28, Brian Trelstad, CIO, Acumen
- August 04, Joseph Cahalan, President, Xerox Foundation and Vice President, Communications and Social Responsibility, Xerox Corporation
- August 11, Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute
- August 18, Seth Merrin, Founder and CEO, Liquidnet
- August 25, Robert S. Harrison, CEO, Clinton Global Initiative
- September 01, Julius Walls Jr., CEO, Greyston Bakery
- September 08, Richard Kauffman, CEO, Good Energies
Watch this space for updates!
