The past year was a challenge globally, and yet we experienced the global ethics and compliance community come together to ensure continuity in their work. We saw a unique level of commitment from our Asia Pacific leaders who were tasked with re-imagining their ethics and integrity programs. While we weren’t able to get together ...
At Unum, we help people gain affordable access to benefits through the workplace. Organizations of all sizes and their employees depend on us throughout life’s pivotal moments—from the birth of a child, to unexpected illness or loss of abilities. We understand the economically fragile situation of many families and the critical role that financial ...
Germany-based Deutsche Telekom (DT) consistently ranks among the top ten largest global telecommunications companies and is Europe’s leader in the space. The company and its many subsidiaries provide the base upon which the digital economy runs for many consumers. As critical infrastructure, the company knows that it has an extra obligation to be responsible ...
The connection between a company and the people it serves is key to the success of any business, but that bond is especially vital for a company like HCA Healthcare, whose hospitals are indispensable community institutions. HCA Healthcare’s Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President of Community Engagement each gave their perspective on how the ...
Bain Capital, the global alternative asset manager, has operations and investments in markets all over the world. Melissa Obegi, Bain’s Asia General Counsel, is responsible for understanding and mitigating the firm’s regional risk profile—no small feat in a market that runs the gamut from Sydney to Shanghai to Bangkok. Seeking to help Bain’s portfolio ...
The Aspen Institute’s Judy Samuelson has had a career considering the impacts of capitalism from different vantage points—from the halls of the California state legislature to business school, a stint in banking, running impact investment at the Ford Foundation, and now in charge of the Business and Society Program at a leading think tank. ...
Excerpted and adapted from The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World by Judy Samuelson. Copyright 2020. Reprinted with permission of Berrett-Koehler Publishers. The Voice of the Employee RULE #4: Employees Give Voice to Risk and Competitive Advantage A human management will demand that we incorporate a concern for ...
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 a sea of recognition on social media and it is darn cheerful. With a recent Gallup poll finding that a ...
In this interview, Ethisphere’s Craig Moss interviews Johanna “José” Zeilstra, CEO of Gender Fair, a public benefit corporation focused on informing consumers, employees, and investors which companies are advancing gender equality. It also encourages support for those companies in the marketplace through its Gender Fair Index. Ethisphere has just forged a partnership with Gender ...
Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded groundbreaking change in many sectors, particularly in science and medicine. With these innovations, however, AI’s creators have publicly recognized that poorly conceived AI can also have some real downsides, particularly with respect to discrimination. Discrimination could be caused by bias built into AI at any stage ...
