Framing ethical perspectives
Business and commerce are at the heart of Western capitalist societies, and they play an ever-increasing role in quasi-capitalist societies, like China. Businesses – especially the tech giants – are becoming increasingly powerful as technologies proliferate and leaders acquire once-unimaginable levels of wealth and influence. Carnegie Council’s programs, events, and experts analyze these developments through an ethical lens and strive to create and highlight communities and programs with the capabilities to hold businesses and their leaders accountable for their actions.
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NOV 15, 2023 • Podcast
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World, with Bethany Allen
MAR 24, 2022 • Podcast
The Doorstep: How Cryptocurrencies & NFTs May Change the Global World Order, with David Yermack
NYU Stern's Professor David Yermack discusses NFTs, Ukraine, and the future of crypto with Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin.
MAY 6, 2022 • Podcast
For Companies, Could China Be the Next Russia? with Perth Tolle
Isaac Stone Fish and finance expert Perth Tolle discuss the global economic backlash to Russia after the Ukraine invasion, China, and much more.
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SEP 21, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Can Mobile Technology Help Make Sustainable Business a Reality?
How can we bridge the disconnect between the growing interest of business and finance in the sustainability agenda and more decisive action towards better social ...
AUG 21, 2015 • Podcast
Global Tax Avoidance: Who's Responsible?
We investigate the complex world of tax avoidance, starting with the mining industry in Zambia. Activists, documentarians, and economists give perspectives on how corporations avoid ...
JUL 24, 2015 • Podcast
A Conversation on Climate Change with Conservation International's M. Sanjayan
In late June, "Ethics & International Affairs" senior editor Zach Dorfman sat down with M. Sanjayan, senior scientist at Conservation International, at the Aspen Ideas Festival ...
JUL 21, 2015 • Podcast
When CEOs Become Activists
Corporate leaders' influence reaches beyond the walls of their businesses. How do they use that power, and what are the ethical, business, and political consequences? ...
JUL 20, 2015 • Podcast
Ukraine and the Future of Reforms
In May 2015, a time of crisis not only for Ukraine but also for the future of the entire EU, Cloud and Gvosdev went to Lithuania, ...
JUL 15, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
Entrepreneurs emerging from China are redefining the nature of business—not just in China, but everywhere in the world. The new millionaires and billionaires are ...
JUL 2, 2015 • Podcast
The Republic of Conscience
According to former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, Congress, the military, and even the Supreme Court have fallen victim to special interests and ignored America's ...
JUN 18, 2015 • Podcast
An Interview with Jim Sleeper on the Future of Liberal Education
Is anything in liberal education nonnegotiable? In this EIA interview, Jim Sleeper, author of "Innocents Abroad: Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies," published in the journal's ...
JUN 17, 2015 • Podcast
A Conversation with Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton on Social Entrepreneurship
For millennia, the world was organized around efficiency and repetition, says Bill Drayton, but now this system is being replaced by a world organized around ...
JUN 11, 2015 • Podcast
Why We Cheat: Stories of Dishonesty and Human Nature from Dan Ariely and Others
In this last installment of our three-part series on workplace ethics in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we take an honest look at cheating. According to ...