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 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Information Gaps Hinder CSR Achievement
IBM recently completed its second annual survey of senior executives from around the world on the importance of green and sustainability issues to their corporate ...
MAY 27, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What's Wrong with Diplomacy in Damascus
The Obama administration has reversed former President George W. Bush's isolationist policies toward Syria, but has little to show for it. The government will need ...
MAY 5, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Digital Workforce Initiative Transforms Gulf Coast Job Prospects
One means to revitalize the post-Katrina Louisiana economy is to educate a digital workforce steeped in twenty-first century skills: creative collaboration, communication, and interactive media ...
APR 24, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run
The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better ...
APR 22, 2009 • Podcast
Restoring Trust in the Global Financial System
This Workshop for Ethics in Business panel analyzes the growing lack of trust in the financial system and how it threatens to keep the global ...
APR 20, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Europe Calls U.S. on Gambling Laws
Europe's WTO complaint has re-raised the issue of gambling legalization and regulation in the United States -- a topic that should arouse the interest of ...
APR 16, 2009 • Podcast
The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing
A fat tail is an event that seems unlikely to occur, but when it does, it causes havoc--like the global financial crisis. What will the ...
APR 15, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Homo sociens and the New Ecological Growth Economy
What does it mean to build an economy on sound ecological principles? It means that all forms of business and other human activity will be ...
APR 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Decouple the World from the Dollar
We have to wean the world off its dependence on U.S. overspending without sticking the United States and the world economy in a depression, ...
APR 3, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Ethics and Experts
How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?