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Articles on corporate governance, organizational ethics, creating an ethical culture, leadership, and global business ethics.

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  • El Salvador's passage of The Bitcoin Law has raised questions about the ethical nature of implementing a cryptocurrency as legal tender. Less than 5% of all Chivo ATMs are located within communities living in formerly guerrilla-controlled territories, harkening to a substantial lack of support by the Salvadoran government and a failure to achieve all three of The Bitcoin Law’s goals.

  • By discharging existing government departments and agencies to oversee AI and developing new tools and organizations to aid in that effort, the Biden administration is addressing the question of whether AI regulation will be distributed among a number of entities, or concentrated in a single, new agency.

  • Despite the concerns that religious participation is fading, enough people still consider it vital to their life. In the face of this new moment, what are key ethical guideposts for executives to keep in mind?

  • Leading tech companies collaborate with White House to create voluntary guardrails on artificial intelligence. While reactions are mixed, the effort should nevertheless be celebrated for providing the leadership that elected officials, industry leaders, and private citizens have been asking for.

  • This wave of ethical convergence, driven by a desire to develop responsible technology, might just be strong enough to accomplish what centuries of discussion have not yet done—arrive at a global ethic.

  • The risk that unethical employees pose to a corporation justify the inclusion of a few good questions related to ethics in the interview process.

  • ESG investing is impacting how businesses operate, however, critics argue that ESG funds financially underperform and do not seem to deliver better ESG performance.

  • The FTC cited Drizly CEO James (Cory) Rellas for data breaches affecting his company’s customers.

  • Can ESG move past ingrained notions of property and capitalism and aid in the movement toward a more equitable, ethical, and sustainable future?

  • Defining Positive Environmental Behaviors in Business

    ESG provides businesses with an opportunity to emphasize accountability and shift from a shareholder to a stakeholder model of business ownership.

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