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September
2009
Ethical
Corporation,
September
2009
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Global equity markets down $30
trillion in 2008. Job losses in
the US of 650,000 in one month
alone. Consumer confidence down
to record lows.
Lose public trust and it’s
frightening how quickly the
slide starts. This report is
worth a read if only because it
bucks the trend in business
literature by dwelling on the
upside, not the downside, of the
current financial turmoil.
Crises present opportunities,
advocates of creative capitalism
like to argue. So step up
leaders and “make business
better”, this paper urges.
[From] The Dynamics of Public
Trust in Business, Business
Roundtable Institute for
Corporate Ethics and Arthur W
Page Society, June 2009.
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Topic
of
trust
storms
Davos
PRWeek,
September
11,
2009
By
Margery
Kraus
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As PR professionals, we have
been talking a lot lately about
trust. In fact, the recent Page
Society report, developed in
conjunction with the Business
Roundtable Institute on
Corporate Ethics, is devoted to
the kinds of things companies
and their leaders can do to
overcome the present crisis of
trust in business.
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Ivory
Tower:
Public
Trust
in
Business
and
Government—A
New
Way
Forward
Ethisphere,
August
21,
2009
By
Brian
Moriarty
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Public trust in both business
and in government has been low
for decades. Since Gallup began
measuring public trust in the
professions in 1976, 19 percent
of people on average have had a
“very high” or “high” opinion of
the honesty and ethics of
business executives. Public
trust in Congressmen has been
even lower at an average of just
15 percent. Surprisingly,
current low levels of trust do
not adjust the result for recent
scandals.
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Bankruptcy of Trust: Redefining
Values to Safeguard Your Reputation
PRNews, June 29, 2009
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“Public trust in business is the
level and type of vulnerability
that the public is willing to
assume with regard to business
relations,” says Brian Moriarty,
associate director for
communications at the Business
Roundtable Institute for
Corporate Ethics, based on the
findings of the Institute’s
special report on the dynamics
of public trust in business. “It
is a critical ingredient for
social cooperation and marketing
efficiency, and a cause for deep
concern when it is absent or
threatened.”
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Winning
Back Public Trust A Report on What Business
Needs to Do
BusinessWeek.com
By Patricia O'Connell
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The
Arthur W. Page Society and the
Business Roundtable Institute
for Corporate Ethics call for
companies to align their
interests more with those of the
public
(Interview With Roger Bolton)
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Interview: Ed Freeman and Roger
Bolton
PRWeek,
June 17,
2009
By Tonya Garcia |
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Senior reporter Tonya Garcia
speaks to
Ed Freeman, academic
director, Business Roundtable
Institute for Corporate Ethics,
and Roger Bolton, senior
counselor, APCO, about their
role in the recent publication
of the Arthur W. Page Society
and Business Roundtable Trust
Report.
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Coffee and pastries but no
debate
Economist.com,
June 16,
2009 |
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The
annual meeting is the most
visible evidence that the
democracy at the heart of
corporate governance (especially
in America, where shareholders
struggle even to propose motions
for discussion or candidates for
the board) is a sham.
One of the great questions
surrounding corporate governance
is why the big institutional
shareholders, which tend to vote
in support of management, go
along with such a sham. Why do
they not act as responsible
owners and insist that
management take shareholder
democracy more seriously?
One obvious reason why
institutional shareholders do
not take more care in exercising
their votes is that they are too
busy trying to beat the market
in the short term, so as to earn
juicy bonuses, even though
taking their duties as owners
more seriously would lead to
companies performing better in
the long term. Public trust in
business has plunged during the
current economic crisis, as a
new
report by the Arthur Page
Society and the Business
Roundtable points out. |
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O mundo desconfiado
Terra Magazine,
June 6, 2009
By
Paulo Nassar |
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O 4th Annual Tuck Symposium on
Communication, realizado no último
dia 2, em Nova York, sob o comando do
renomado professor Paul Argenti, colocou
na berlinda corporações, instituições e
a imprensa, ao analisar imagem,
confiança, comportamento e reputação, no
âmbito da crise financeira global.
A confiança da sociedade nos negócios
foi a questão dissecada por
Brian Moriarty e Roger Bolton, que
pinçaram informações entre os associados
do Business Roundtable e da
Arthur Page Society, com faturamento
anual de cerca de US$ 5 trilhões e
empregam perto de 10 milhões de
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About the Business Roundtable
Institute for Corporate Ethics
The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate
Ethics is an independent business ethics center established in
partnership with Business Roundtable—an
association of chief executive officers of
leading corporations with a combined workforce
of more than 10 million employees and $4.5
trillion in annual revenues—and leading
academics from America’s best business schools.
The Institute brings together leaders from
business and academia to fulfill its mission to
renew and enhance the link between ethical
behavior and business practice through executive
education programs, practitioner-focused
research and outreach.
More information
on the Institute can be found at
www.corporate-ethics.org.
Contact:
Brian Moriarty
(434) 982-2323 –
moriartyb@darden.virginia.edu
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