Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2013

The business of modern-day slavery

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Events last week in the UK, where three women were rescued from what appears to be a 30 year-long situation of forced domestic labour si...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s unacknowledged grandchild

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The death of Baroness Thatcher is dominating today's news. Despite the euologic praises heaped now posthumously on the ‘iron lady’ ...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Who will be the business ethics winners and losers at the London Olympics?

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Corporate involvement in the Olympic Games continues to expand in size and significance. This year, the 2012 London Olympics will boast s...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Solving the executive pay problem

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The idea that executive pay can be "too high" is a touchy issue. While many regular Joes are seeing their jobs disappear, or h...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Why Occupy Wall Street should occupy corporate leaders' minds

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This weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protest will go global. Protests, marches and occupations are planned across the world, with almost...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Controversies in university funding: LSE and the Libyan connection

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The London School of Economics has been embroiled in a major controversy regarding its relationship with the under-siege Libyan regime, an...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Business ethics more culturally significant than CSR ... but not everywhere

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'Business ethics' and "corporate social responsibility" are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but at the sam...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Is too much transparency a bad thing?

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It’s been quite a week or so for transparency. The incendiary WikiLeaks release of almost a quarter of a million classified cables from the ...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Google vs China: upping the ante on industrial espionage

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One of the big business ethics stories of the last month has been Google's announcement in mid January of a 'new approach to China...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Britain's bribery shame to end?

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For the past few years, we have watched with sagging spirits the abject failures of the UK authorities to get to grips with overseas bribery...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Ethics and MP's expenses: storm in a (claimable) teacup?

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Crane and Matten have been in the UK this week, and the big issue absolutely dominating the media has been that of the expense claims of the...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Ethics and financial crisis

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With stock markets plummeting, financial institutions going belly-up, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic stepping in to bail out...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Business and politics: Berlusconi and BAE back in the news

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This week sees Crane and Matten travelling to Europe. At the moment we are in Milan in Italy, being hosted by the CSR Unit at Bocconi Univer...