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Institute Reports and Surveys analyze key issues related
to business ethics and offer recommendations for practice.
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Shaping Tomorrow’s Business Leaders:
Principles and Practices for a Model
Business Ethics Program
(October 3, 2007)
This report calls on business schools to
adopt principles and practices for
building model business ethics programs
at their institutions. The report
includes an introductory letter from
Harold McGraw III, Chairman of Business
Roundtable and Chairman, President and
CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies. Based on
the leading thinking of noted faculty
and business leaders, the report
provides clear and actionable
recommendations for business schools
attempting to build or strengthen the
ethics education of their students.
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News Release
Read the List of Principles of a
Model Business Ethics Program
Read the List of Recommended Actions
for a Model Business Ethics Program
Read the results of the Teaching
Business Ethics Survey of Educators |
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Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining
the Role of the Chief Ethics and
Compliance Officer
(August 13, 2007)
This report represents the first
cooperative effort by leading business ethics
organizations to fully define the role of the Chief
Ethics and Compliance Officer.
Along with the Institute,
representatives of the
Ethics Resource Center (ERC), the
Ethics and Compliance Officer
Association (ECOA), the
Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG),
and the
Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics
(SCCE) came together in an ERC
Fellows Program working group to complete this
report.
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Apples to
Apples – A Standard Template for Reporting Quarterly
Earnings
(April 2, 2007)In this report published the
CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity and
the
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
jointly call on companies to improve the quality and
clarity of quarterly earnings announcements by
adopting a standard template for reporting quarterly
earnings information. The recommendations follow the
two organizations’ work on short-termism in the
markets.
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Ethics Guide for Job Interviews
(August 17, 2006)
Designed by Academic
Advisor
Patrick Murphy, a professor of marketing
and co-director of the
Institute for Ethical
Business Worldwide
at the University of Notre Dame, this
brief guide helps job seekers and recruiters
integrate ethics into the recruitment
process.
The guide covers the benefits of ethical work
environments, includes sample questions which
recruiters and job seekers can pose during
an
interview, and lists unethical behaviors to be
avoided.
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Breaking the
Short-term Cycle
(July 24, 2006)
The
CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity and
the
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
held a series of symposia through 2005 and 2006
addressing the issue of short-term thinking in
today's financial markets. This report and the
proposals it contains reflect the opinions of panel
participants in these meetings. Participants
included corporate leaders, asset managers,
institutional investors, and analysts. The report
encourages all market participants to refocus on
long-term value and provides recommendations
concerning earnings guidance, incentives and
compensation, leadership, communications and
transparency, and education
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Mapping the
Terrain of Business Ethics
(June 8, 2004)
The Mapping the Terrain of Business Ethics study
surveyed Business Roundtable CEOs to understand the
most important ethics issues facing corporate
leaders. In survey responses, CEOs indicated that
the five most important corporate ethics issues
facing the business community are: 1) regaining the
public trust; 2) effective company management in the
context of today’s investor expectations; 3)
ensuring the integrity of financial reporting; 4)
fairness of executive compensation; and 5) ethical
role-modeling of senior management.
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