FROn a day when fears were raised that the Bribery Bill may be derailed or dramatically watered down, senior business leader and NGOs debated the likely impact of the Bill on businesses in Britain. The debate began with a summary of the circumstances most likely to lead to corruption. Globally, bribery occurs most often post…
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Despite the FSA’s attempts to implement its Treating Customers Fairly programme, complaints about the way banks, building societies and other lenders treat their mortgage customers, rose by 40 per cent in the six month period from April to October ’09. In light of such figures, GoodCorporation’s most recent debate at the House of Lords asked…
Andrew Feinstein, an elected member of the first ANC parliament, introduced GoodCorporation’s debate on the problems facing multinationals operating in emerging markets. He began by reminding delegates that South Africa has only been a democracy for 15 years. During that time it has made remarkable progress and is a fundamentally better country. However, as an…
Despite the considerable amount of airtime devoted to climate change and its potentially devastating consequences, we have been long on pledges and promises but rather short on solutions. At our most recent debate at the House of Lords, GoodCorporation invited business leaders, government departments and NGOs to discuss the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Paul…
At a debate organised by GoodCorporation and hosted by Baroness Sharp at the House of Lords on 20th May 2009, Will Hutton, Vice-Chair of the Work Foundation spoke on corporate governance and corporate responsibility. Will said that companies need to have a much clearer statement of their purpose that should be challenged and agreed by…
With some of the biggest fines for corporate corruption imposed upon leading multinational defence companies, the latest GoodCorporation debate at the House of Lords asked: Can defence and security companies ever operate ethically? Hosting the debate, Baroness Pauline Neville Jones stressed that we should focus the discussion on how the industry moves forward. Corruption scandals…
