FRIn the last of our 2022 debates at the House of Lords, Baroness Brown of Cambridge hosted GoodCorporation and the Royal Academy of Engineering (the Academy), together with representatives from across the UK engineering sector, to consider the challenges of managing ethics in engineering. Professor David Bogle, President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (iChemE) and Pro-Vice-Provost…
Category Archives: Business Ethics Debates
Andrew Feinstein, Executive Director at Shadow World Investigations opened the debate with his analysis of the key factors contributing to the current changing patterns in global trade, notably:Â Overall these factors are leading to changes for companies as supply-chains are reorganised and this is increasing corruption risk. Andrew also noted the increased risks related…
With the EU Whistleblowing Directive now in force and likely to impact the thousands of UK businesses with operations in Europe, GoodCorporation’s first Business Ethics Debate of 2022 addressed the important topic of whistleblowing. Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO of Whistleblowers UK, opened the discussion and asked the question, Is legislation making whistleblowing the norm and not…
Baroness Young hosted our second House of Lords debate this year and began by sharing her optimism at how far the human rights agenda has evolved over the last few decades. Professor Parosha Chandran, the UK’s leading anti-slavery lawyer and award-winning human rights barrister opened the discussion. She highlighted some key human rights cases and…
GoodCorporation’s first debate of 2020, introduced by Ed Wheatley, Legal Director ABC Compliance, TechnipFMC, explores the changing corruption landscape. The subject was introduced by highlighting some of the key facts of the recent Airbus prosecution. Ed summarised the familiar aspects of the prosecution and highlighted where the landscape is changing. The familiar: The new landscape:…
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,…
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…
Lord Bilimoria, host of our summer 2019 ethics debate, introduced the discussion by affirming the significant, but often overlooked, contribution that businesses make to society – providing jobs which generate taxes, which in turn allow our modern society to function for the greater good. He spoke from his own experience of the pressure corporates often…
With the revised Corporate Governance Code imposing new requirements on boards to assess the culture of their company, and report on it from this year, GoodCorporation’s May 2019 House of Lords lunch debate asked whether this could really be done? The UK Corporate Governance Code was updated in 2018 to take account of the recent…
GoodCorporation’s data protection debate was opened by Amanda Williams, Director of Strategic Policy (Parliamentary and Government Affairs) at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
