Make Sure There’s Culture Gold at the End of Your Pride Month Rainbow
Happy Pride Month! As an ethics and compliance leader and a member of the LGBTQIA community, I’m professionally and personally encouraged to see so many corporate logos “going rainbow” this June. It feels like ...
Equity & Social Justice Initiative
Developed in collaboration with an Advisory Council of industry leaders, Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), and key partner organizations, the Ethisphere Equity and Social Justice Initiative focuses on identifying and sharing leading practices, resources, case studies, conversations, and shared experiences from global companies and leaders committed to driving progress.
Equity & Social Justice
Employees—Key Stakeholder for Public Opinion?
The last year has seen sharper shifts in public opinion about business, capitalism, and corporate responsibility than perhaps the entire previous decade. However, those changes were no surprise to Martin ...
AARP: COVID-19 and Equity – A Test of Organizational Character
AARP has been working to promote the health and well-being of older Americans for more than sixty years. And, last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic invaded our lives and ...
World’s Most Ethical Companies: IBM – Obed Louissaint
Obed Louissaint SVP, Transformation and Culture International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Information Technology Services “Our connection to social justice is jobs,” wrote IBM’s SVP of Transformation and ...
Placing Trust in Business Leaders to Make a Difference
Tim Erblich, Chief Executive Officer, Ethisphere “The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This quote, popularized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, is ...
Fostering Change with the Equity and Social Justice Initiative
We’re all in this together, and together we can drive meaningful change. For many, this hopeful statement may fall flat, and for good reason. Many have had to endure lifelong ...
MetroHealth: A Plan for Measurable Permanent Change
This time feels different. Yes, we’ve all said that before. After Michael Brown, after Trayvon Martin, after Charleston, after Charlottesville. After all the other stark and undeniable reminders of the ...
ACC: Legal Should Lead on Diversity
2020 has been a year unlike any other. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to see society attempt to come to terms with pervasive social and racial ...
SoftBank: Opportunity Fund for Minority-Owned Startups
In June in response to Black Lives Matter and the global reckoning on race, numerous companies announced major initiatives to help close the gap with Black and minority communities ...
AT&T’s David Huntley: Making This Time Different
At a glance, my coming-of-age story isn’t unlike many of yours. But at a deeper look, it’s strikingly different. My story begins in San Antonio, Texas during the American Civil ...
Disability Inclusion: Moral & Financial Imperative
The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which became law in 1990. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people ...
Personalization & Data: Preparing for the Workforce of the Future Takes New Approaches
U.S. Bank’s Chief Human Resources Officer Ismat Aziz is on a mission to blend the art of personalization and the science of data to provide a best-in-class employee experience ...
JLL: Steps to Diversify the Leadership Pipeline
We’ve worked to address inequality in the workplace, but not enough is changing. We still see harassment, misconduct, unequal pay, a dearth of female role models in C-suite and ...
Making a Statement: Unilever on Collaboration to Advance Legal Diversity
Many of Ethisphere’s readers have probably seen a post floating around LinkedIn announcing the Diversity and Inclusion Statement of Support, signed primarily by the general counsel of large European ...
[WATCH] Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Report Discussion
Moderator Erica Salmon Byrne, EVP and Chair of BELA, Ethisphere Panelists Nanjappa B.S., Vice President, Human Resources, Infosys Ritu Jain, Chief Compliance Officer, Asia, GE Sheetal Raina, ...
Baker McKenzie: Advancing Your Organization’s D&I Program
While #MeToo unveiled the way companies still do not have a handle on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, many commenters have pointed out that harassment remains an issue in ...
Measuring #MeToo: Strategies for Investigating (and Fighting) Harassment
Hope Scott, VP, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Blue Shield of California Every day, my 93-year-old mother asks me, “How’s your health?” And most days I say, “Fine, good!” ...