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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JUL 1, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Green Beer
Once reserved for St. Patrick's Day, green beer is now available year round in the form of more ecologically sound beers. Companies across the globe ...
JUN 25, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: U Made an Illegal U-Turn
The South Korean metropolis of New Songdo is slated to be the world's largest "ubiquitous city," with tracking devices everywhere. The entrenchment of social surveillance ...
JUN 20, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Big Beer Brewing
Many beer lovers fear that industry consolidation will lead to homogenization -- a process some deride as "lagerization."
JUN 18, 2008 • Podcast
The Future of the Automobile
General Motors' Larry Burns envisions the future: Electric cars that will deliver today's freedoms at more reasonable prices, and without today's environmental, safety, and congestion ...
JUN 17, 2008 • Podcast
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
"There's no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died," sighs Putin. In a funny and frightening talk, Marshall Goldman unravels the tangled links between ...
JUN 3, 2008 • Podcast
When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Geoffrey Heal examines how social and environmental performance affects a corporation's profitability and how the stock market reacts to a firm's behavior in these areas.
MAY 29, 2008 • Podcast
Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games
An expert panel discusses the ethics of engagement with China in the context of the Olympics. What lasting positive or negative effects, if any, will ...
APR 24, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Building a Foundation of Trust
China's presence in Africa is often viewed as part of the scramble for resources, but it also opens the door to U.S.-China cooperation ...
APR 22, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Growing Green During Downturn
With the threat of recession, the emphasis on green in business is shifting from the environment back to dollars.
APR 22, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Rising Sun for Electric Cars
Southern New Hampshire University is experimenting with parking lot solar to charge electric cars and feed renewable energy back into the grid.