Over the last several months, Ethisphere has been running a working group of Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) member companies all engaged on ESG best practices. Emily Rickaby, Ethisphere’s Director of Shared Expertise and Strategic Projects, has been coordinating the group, and got a chance to discuss the work they’ve done so far with Marvell’s ...
One of the trickiest challenges for companies looking to improve their ESG performance is dealing with the constantly-shifting landscape of ratings agencies and reporting best practices. Fortunately, Newmont’s Carrie Christopher has years of experience, both in-house, and as a consultant in the sustainability space and, now, as Director, Sustainability Reporting for the world’s largest gold ...
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 injustice and bias. This pain magnified by recent events is enough to discourage even the most strong-willed. But, in talking with a few senior leaders ...
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 racism that’s been baked into American culture and law for 400 years. But this time, it needs to be different. And I think it will ...
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 injustice. The public is increasingly looking at how businesses are reacting to these unique and complicated issues. The quality of a product or the health ...
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 and try to redress lingering inequities. Perhaps no company’s initiatives had quite the same dollar amount attached as SoftBank’s $100 million Opportunity Fund of venture ...
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 Rights movement. The son of a proud father and a doting mother, I believed that the world was my oyster as long as I worked ...
Ethics and compliance professionals are working harder than ever in 2020, as the pandemic collides with a season of social and racial protest, and an ongoing climate crisis that seems to worsen each year. Chief ethics and compliance officers, amid all their hard work, have a real opportunity in the midst of these circumstances ...
Courtesy of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Ethisphere Magazine Executive Editor Tyler Lawrence got a chance to chat with Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Leasa Anderson and Julie Gresham about their relationship with the Association of Corporate Counsel, the importance of continuous learning, the ACC’s Global Annual Meeting, and how their organization thinks about compliance risk ...
AB InBev Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer John Blood spoke with Ethisphere editor Tyler Lawrence in the leadup to the 2020 United Nations General Assembly, held remotely for the first time in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Blood talks about AB InBev's role in contributing to international sustainability and anti-corruption efforts, the ...
