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 ...
The pandemic has jolted families, friends, and individual security. No facial coverings could mask the realities that we all confronted as towns, cities and yes, even countries were forced to shut down. Lives have been lost and families torn apart by its effects. Commerce has also taken the full brunt of its impact. ...
Procter & Gamble was a recipient of last year’s Corporate Leadership Award from the Coalition for Integrity (C4I), a partner of Ethisphere’s. Our friends at C4I fight public and private corruption, and these awards seek to recognize and lift up the best work being done in the public and private sectors. Ethisphere’s Leslie Benton ...
In 2020, the Coalition for Integrity bestowed its prestigious Corporate Leadership Award on Procter & Gamble, making the US-based consumer brands giant one of a handful of recipients of the rigorously-researched honor. During the Integrity Awards virtual celebration in December, the organization also gave its individual award to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of ...
Corruption has a habit of spreading to all facets of society. Whether it begins in government, business, financial markets, or civil society, if left unchecked it soon permeates them all. It entrenches those at the top of the income brackets, stifling competition and dooming the millions at the bottom to lifetimes of poverty. While ...
