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Simple Ethics Rules for Better Risk Management

Harvard Business

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Governance Metrics: These assess the quality of a company’s leadership, executive compensation, and adherence to ethical standards. Starbucks, with its commitment to ethical sourcing and community engagement, has cultivated a loyal customer base that values sustainability.

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Servant Leadership: A Better DNA for Leaders

Rick Conlow

Witness the rise of Servant Leadership. As a result, employees do not trust companies’ leadership and it is becoming increasingly challenging to rebuild credibility. Business, if not world leadership, is at a precipice. Cheryl Bachelder saved Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen from bankruptcy through Servant Leadership principles.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. Finally, we should mention the role of leadership in this process. The Data-Driven Enterprise of 2025. References .

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