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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JUN 10, 2015 • Podcast
A Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman on the Ethics of the Internet
"We have the capacity to get stories from every part of the globe. The question is, what do we want to pay attention to? The ...
JUN 8, 2015 • Podcast
A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control
Social disruptions due to the adoption of new technologies will increase dramatically, says Wendell Wallach, unless we start now and implement checks and balances.
JUN 3, 2015 • Article
The Strategic Importance of U.S.-China Trade Ties
Everyone worries about the escalation of China's maritime disputes in the South China Sea. But the greatest long-term threat to U.S.-China relations may ...
MAY 28, 2015 • Podcast
An Interview with Shefa Siegel on Liberia, Ebola, and the Cult of Bankable Projects
It's not for lack of money that international organizations failed to prevent the disastrous spread of Ebola, says Shefa Siegel. It's for lack of flexibility ...
MAY 26, 2015 • Podcast
Job Creation in the Arab World: Education for Employment's Mariel Davis
The Middle East and North Africa is a particularly challenging region to create employment for young people and women, says Mariel Davis. Yet Education for ...
MAY 18, 2015 • Podcast
Ethical Negotiation: Not an Oxymoron
In this second podcast in our collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we examine negotiation. Turning again to behavioral science for insight, we learn that transparency and ...
MAY 1, 2015 • Podcast
The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
When it comes to medical research using human beings, who decides what's right? How do the U.S. institutional review boards work? What does "informed ...
APR 13, 2015 • Podcast
Ethical Systems Design: Bringing Behavioral Science Into Corporate Life
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installment, we're ...
APR 6, 2015 • Podcast
American Energy Challenges and Global Leadership in the Years Ahead
Thanks to new technologies for extracting oil and natural gas, such as hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), the United States is now the biggest producer of energy ...
MAR 16, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Shakespeare on the Shop Floor
A pioneering organization is using literature to enable other sorts of conversations at the workplace—the types of conversations that successful companies need to have.