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.
Featured Business Resources
Global commerce, ethical investing, and more
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.
Related Initiatives
Carnegie Ethics Fellows
The Carnegie Ethics Fellows program (CEF) seeks to cultivate the next generation of ethical global leaders across business, policy, technology, NGOs, and academia.
Carnegie Ethics Accelerator
The Carnegie Ethics Accelerator is a new kind of incubator designed to empower ethics in the face of swiftly evolving challenges in technology and public policies.
Explore Our Business Resources
MAR 4, 2019 • Podcast
A U.S.-China Tech Cold War? with Adam Segal
Are we headed for a U.S.-China tech Cold War and what should we do about it? "There's no way we're ever going to ...
MAR 4, 2019 • Video
Ethics in Business: In Their Own Words, with AlipayHK's Jennifer Tan
Jennifer Tan, CEO of AlipayHK, discusses the role of ethics in her work leading the company behind a mobile payment platform for Hong Kong. She ...
FEB 20, 2019 • Article
Jingjing Zhang: Greening China's Globalization
Born in China, environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang is working to hold China accountable for the negative impacts of its overseas investment and construction projects, the ...
FEB 12, 2019 • Podcast
The Future is Asian, with Parag Khanna
"The rise of China is not the biggest story in the world," says Parag Khanna. "The Asianization of Asia, the return of Asia, the rise ...
FEB 8, 2019 • Podcast
The Crack-Up: The Early Days of Hollywood, with David Bordwell
In this episode of The Crack-Up series, which explores how 1919 shaped the modern world, film historian David Bordwell discusses two big changes in the American ...
FEB 6, 2019 • Video
Ethics in Business: In Their Own Words, with Cargill's David MacLennan
David MacLennan, chairman and CEO of Cargill, discusses the role of ethics in his work leading an agriculture, food, and nutrition company that is present ...
JAN 14, 2019 • Podcast
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age, with David Sanger
From the U.S. operation against Iran's nuclear enrichment plant, to Chinese theft of personal data, North Korea's financially motivated attacks on American companies, or ...
JAN 8, 2019 • Podcast
Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age, with Ian Mitroff
Gold leaf tattoos that would act as a screen for our devices, chips implanted in our brains--these are some of the worrying technologies under development ...
NOV 5, 2018 • Article
The Ethics of Personal Data Collection: A Spectrum of Experiences from Kenya, India, and The Gambia
Many advocates now depend on mobile apps and crowdsourced data to address violations of human rights, such as physical assaults on women in India. In ...
OCT 22, 2018 • Transcript
The Northern Ireland We Want--the Opportunities
In this session of the International Seminar on Wellbeing in Northern Ireland, economist Neil Gibson of Ernst & Young, Katrina Godfrey, Department of Infrastructure, Northern Ireland, ...