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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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.
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DEC 14, 2009 • Podcast
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What it Will Mean for Our World
The real key to bringing economic and political change to the Muslim world is capitalism, says Vali Nasr. Entrepreneurial middle classes the world over have ...
NOV 30, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Micro-donations Can Make a Massive Difference in Global Health
Policy Innovations talks with Bernard Salome, managing director of the Millennium Foundation, about raising funds for global health through small donations made when people purchase ...
NOV 25, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Contested Governance in a Global-Corporate World
Can nation-states, global corporations, and civil society alliances stabilize in a new form of effective global governance?
NOV 25, 2009 • Podcast
Web 2.0 and Corporate Accountability
In July 2009, the Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative launched a six-month project on Web 2.0 and corporate accountability. This expert panel discusses the project's ...
NOV 20, 2009 • Podcast
Can You Ever Earn Too Much?
Within society there seems to be a general public disdain for excess and a private commitment to excess. Should there be formal or informal standards ...
NOV 17, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Will China Emerge Greener from the Global Economic Downturn?
The economic downturn presents China with a historic opportunity to reorient its economy to a more stable and sustainable path, but emerging evidence from the ...
NOV 13, 2009 • Podcast
Your Income, Your Liberty, and Your Equality?
Inequality in America has been accelerating rapidly since the 1980s. But capping income levels could put liberty and competitiveness at risk. This short video on ...
NOV 12, 2009 • Podcast
Serving on a Nonprofit Board: Opportunities, Qualifications, and Expectations
Joining a nonprofit board of directors is a tremendous opportunity to help an organization advance a mission that is important to you. Learn who nonprofit ...
NOV 6, 2009 • Podcast
Paying Others to Fight Our Battles
Private contractors bring important skills to tasks outside the capability or mission of military personnel, but they are not accountable to the government or American ...
NOV 5, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Persistence of Eurasia
Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States must confront the reality that Eurasia remains a very Russia-centric region.