After its involvement in the shooting of 17 Iraqi citizens last year, a criminal investigation by the FBI, internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and high-profile...

After the hammering it's received in the Saudi bribe scandal, BAE Systems is now putting out the line that it will be ethical from now on. Don't hold your breath.A new report into the defense...

With more pressure on companies over environmental issues, it's no surprise that complaints about greenwashing are up. A report released by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority found...

Whether it's because of cigarettes, or binge drinking or pollution, it's often blamed on the big corporations.Now a group of academics at City University of New York and University of...

Are millennials more inclined to cheat to get ahead?That seems to be suggestion from Barbara Keats, associate professor of management at the WP Carey School of Business.Keats argues that this...

Massive implications from last week's High Court decision in London overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal...

When it comes to ethics, nonprofits have always been held out as organizations that have the moral high ground. Now there's evidence showing that's not right.A new Ethics Resource Center...

With plans for a special summit on the need to promote diversity in law firms, the question needs to be asked about how much discrimination goes in the legal world.With that in mind, we turn to a...

Ethical consumerism is on the rise. A new study by London-based Datamonitor, reported here, has found that fair-trade sales across Europe, the US, Australia & New Zealand and Japan have...

The headline on The Wall Street Journal says it all: Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis. Andrew Sabin, a friend of Dick Grasso who Spitzer had sued to recover most of $190 million...

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has an interesting initiative that mixes ethics and business opportunity. It's a program designed to show that ethics can be good for business.The 10,000 Women...

More companies are turning to philanthropy as a means of connecting with communities and markets and meeting consumer expectations. But there are questions whether these programs are hitting the...

How serious are private companies about saving the planet. Not very, according to a new global survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton.Grant Thornton's International Business Report 2008 has...

If you are looking around for ethical companies and business leaders, perhaps even scrounging around for some socially responsible investment, you could do worse than look at the latest edition of...

A huge scandal in Germany which is likely to roll right through the German corporate sector. Earlier during the week, German police raided the home and offices of Klaus Zumwinkel, the chief executive...

What's the future of corporate social responsibility? That's the unanswered question with the prospect of a bad US recession looming, threatening to take the world with it. Will companies...

Weep not for Indonesia's former president Suharto who died today at the age of 86. Suharto's iron-fisted rule bought economic growth but also ushered in nepotism and corruption. And...

Last year, I looked at Google's move into philanthropy with it setting up a special arm to to fight poverty, disease and global warming. Google.org has the freedom to form start-up companies and...

Fascinating developments in the world of micro-finance.Online auction giant eBay last year launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the...