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GoodCorporation was delighted to welcome Dame Helena Morrissey to the House of Lords to open our final debate of 2019 which posed the question, is ESG a ‘nice to have’ or integral to corporate strategy and business success? Dame Helena began by suggesting that ESG considerations are coming of age for the following reasons: However,…
Archives par année de publication: 2019
In the week that telecoms giant Ericsson was fined $1bn by US enforcers to settle bribery charges, Board Agenda reported on the findings of GoodCorporation’s paper Combating corruption: businesses still at risk. Of the 7,000 anti-corruption procedures assessed by GoodCorporation almost one third were found to be inadequate with over half (53%) of the due…
Many businesses are still struggling to put the right procedures in place to combat corruption, according to analysis of the GoodCorporation anti-corruption benchmark published in our latest report, Combating Corruption: businesses still at risk. Download our report to read the analysis in full. Having adequate procedures to prevent corruption is vital, not only to mitigate…
Businesses are failing to understand the corruption risks their organisations face and are still struggling to put the right anti-bribery practices in place according to data compiled by GoodCorporation. These are just some of the findings in the latest paper Combating corruption: businesses still at risk, published by GoodCorporation, leading practitioners in measuring and assessing…
GoodCorporation welcomed John Morrison, Chief Executive of the Institute for Human Rights to lead our October business ethics debate at the House of Lords. The debate explored what has changed in human rights and asked Why are businesses taking human rights more seriously? John confirmed that The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark has seen a huge…
It’s been a busy summer for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has announced more than £280 million in fines for data protection breaches in July alone. The message is clear, the ICO intends to be a vigorous enforcer of the GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018. Since GDPR came into force, 66…
A recent judgment allowing Zambian villagers to pursue their case against Vedanta Resources in the UK courts could have important implications for multinational companies doing business in Africa. In the latest issue of African Business, Michael Pollitt examines the issues, including a corporate’s ‘duty of care’ to the communities it affects, its responsibility for implementing…
